African LED lighting market has huge potential

According to media reports, a recent news that Zimbabwe in Africa began to adopt LED street lights has attracted the attention of the industry, and it is also understood that this move can save energy and reduce the cost of lighting operation in African cities, which will definitely be a new milestone in the lighting industry in Africa.

It is understood that dating back to 1950, the trade volume between China and Africa has grown at an average annual rate of 43.5%. As of 2011, the trade volume between China and Africa has reached 160 billion US dollars, and China has become Africa's largest trading partner. As a result, the economic modernization of emerging African countries has attracted more and more attention from all over the world. Especially in the midst of the global economic recession, the African economy still maintains a high-speed growth in retrograde. Africa has 15% of the world's population. As a global market with the most development potential for basic lighting and municipal lighting, Africa has been committed to developing sustainable lighting solutions in recent years to seek an effective solution to power consumption. Driven by the global low-carbon trend, the demand for LED lighting is growing year by year.

Looking at its lighting industry, in Africa, not long ago, the power of solar panels required to drive light bulbs should be 20-30 watts, because people can only afford incandescent lamps, but LED lamps are more efficient, and people only need a few watts of power. Solar panels can meet the lighting needs. As the prices of LED lights, batteries and solar panels continue to fall, coupled with innovative business plans, millions of households in Africa and elsewhere will most likely be able to ditch kerosene and incandescent lamps in favor of more technologically advanced lighting fixtures.

According to incomplete statistics, since the end of last year, good news about the development of the LED industry in Africa has been reported one after another. At the end of 2011, South Africa became the first African country in Africa to phase out incandescent lamps. It is also reported that the introduction of LED lighting technology saves about 41 million gold (nearly 4 million euros) energy for South African companies every year, and reduces 60,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions; during the same period, at the World Climate Conference held in Durban, South Africa, Philips officials call for the realization of LED lighting globalization as soon as possible. JJ van Dongen, CEO of Philips Africa, said that LED lighting has greatly benefited African countries, and LED lighting technology has also provided the possibility for the rapid development of other high-tech technologies (such as mobile phone development technology).