Taiwan invested 1.1 billion yuan a comprehensive facelift LED lights

　　Taiwan's Executive Yuan is expected to invest 5.49 billion yuan (NT, the same below, equivalent to about 1.097 billion yuan) in the next two years to assist the local government in the end of 2016 will be under the jurisdiction of 692,000 mercury street lights replaced with LED lights, completed Taiwan will become the world's first comprehensive mercury lights-out areas. Expected annual saving of up to 640 million degrees, and reduce the financial burden on local governments, estimated annual savings of 1.1 billion yuan (about 220 million yuan RMB) of electricity and 346 million yuan (about 69.16 million yuan RMB) maintenance costs, 5-year warranty period, total local government expenditure savings of up to 7.23 billion yuan (about 1.445 billion yuan RMB).

　　To accelerate the development of LED lighting optoelectronic industry in Taiwan, and expanded carbon reduction, and promote LED traffic lights planned since 2008, making Taiwan was promoted to the first two full use of LED traffic lights regions of the world; the same year, the first to develop LED lights standard (CNS15233), and began to promote the LED street lamp demonstration project.

　　Executive Yuan said that in addition to the promotion of LED lights set up by government funds, but at the same time will be mandatory regulations prohibit the use of mercury lights, mercury lights to full Taiwan sunset goals. Taiwan LED lights significantly improved performance, with an average luminous efficiency of more than 100lm / W, about three times more mercury lights, while the life expectancy of up to six years, has more than three times the mercury lamp life, with the advantages of replacing traditional mercury lights.