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Join The LED Lighting Revolution
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The technology to solve our lighting problems is here. What the industry needs is a change in the way people think about lighting, and a new blood that senses and smells the light.
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Thursday, February 02, 2012:
Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) produce a radically different type of lighting than what we are used to. Already in use in many architectural and commercial applications, these are now reaching our homes too. For a country like India, which struggles to meet the increasing electricity demand with growth in the economy, the biggest benefit of LED lighting is energy saving.
According to India’s Ministry of Power, the country plans to build 80 new coal-fired power plants to keep up with the rising electricity demand over the next five years. But the potential savings from simply changing light bulbs to the new LED technology can significantly reduce the country’s electricity demand by as much as 40 per cent.
LEDs would significantly reduce the lighting load, peak demand and overall energy consumption without compromising on the environment safety as it has no mercury and heavy metal content.
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The opportunity
The Indian market for LED lighting is expected to grow to $400 million by 2015 (at a rate of 53 per cent per annum), making it one of the fastest-growing sectors.
According to Electric Lamp & Component Manufacturers’ Association of India (ELCOMA), the entire lighting industry production in India in 2009 was worth about Rs 71.67 billion, of which the share of LED lighting was only Rs 2.16 billion. The market will be driven by such factors as government support for promoting investments in energy-efficient lighting, development of national standards for testing and performance evaluation, transfer and improvements in existing technology for new applications, global mandate to address greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and decline in average prices of LED.
The efficacy and life of LED lighting would improve over a period of time. Efficacy is expected to double in the next 20 years. Formation of national standards for LEDs will accelerate the market development.
The nationwide LED Village Campaign by Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) has come as a booster. Under the campaign, LED-based streetlights are being installed in villages. LEDs are also being used on a large scale in appliances like air-conditioners and televisions.
Is India ready?
No industry can be driven unless it has the right set of skilled people. In India, since there has not been much focus on lighting education, the industry is in dire need of lighting professionals.
“Most of the Indian lighting industry is still dependent on foreign MNCs for any innovation. One simple reason is that there is no technical institute at the moment which teaches lighting as a subject and its association with electronics. Our electronics hardware manufacturing sector to a large extent doesn’t even know what lighting electronics is,” says Praveen Kumar Sood, chairman, Regnant Group.
“Thankfully, now the government has awakened. We are in touch with the Ministry of Renewable Energy, TERI and Indian Society of Lighting Engineers. We are asking the institutes and universities to start courses in lighting electronics,” he adds.
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--Uma Gupta
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