LED lights want to re-enter the street market

LED lights have ushered in huge business opportunities since the beginning of the year. With the improvement of technology in the past two years, the price in the home furnishing market has dropped drastically, and its market share has been expanding year by year. However, in the municipal lighting market that LED lighting manufacturers generally value, the pace of promotion varies greatly from place to place. The speed of promotion in Nanjing makes it Manufacturers are anxious. Manufacturers expect that Nanjing's municipal lighting market can re-accept LED street lamps.

LED lights continue to heat up in the consumer market

In Jiangdong Gate Jinsheng Home Plaza, the reporter randomly walked into several lighting shops and found that all kinds of LED downlights and spotlights were placed in the most conspicuous position. The sales staff said that the sales of LED lamps could be described as rapid progress. “At present, we sell 10 lamps in the store, and 4 of them are LEDs.” Sanli lighting dealers told reporters that the current warranty period for branded LED lamps is 3-5 years, and the service life reaches 560,000 hours. The price is about half that of the initial listing, so it sells well.

Mr. Zhang, who is in the store to buy lighting, told reporters that in his impression, the LED lights are expensive, but it was not so difficult to accept them today. “The NVC 3W downlight is 40 yuan, the same brightness. The energy-saving lamp is about $ 20. I figured out that the life span of the energy-saving lamp is only less than 10,000 hours, and the energy-saving efficiency is not high. Therefore, the LED lamp was selected."

Hongxing Meikailong decorative city Philips dealer said that this year, LED bulb sales increased by 50% over last year.

Trial effect is not good, LED street light slow promotion in Nanjing

Contrary to the degree of acceptance in the personal consumer market, the municipal engineering field in Nanjing has many doubts about the application of LED lamps, and the pace of promotion and application is very slow.

The problem lies in the pilot three years ago.

“Three years ago, our pilot project on Jiefang Road was unsuccessful.” A person in charge of the Nanjing Street Light Management Office told the reporter that in August 2010, the street light management office combined with the new Jiefang Road, will be 250 watts on both sides of Jiefang Road. The high-pressure sodium lamps were all replaced by 120 watts of LED lamps from a foreign manufacturer. According to the price at that time, a price of LED energy-saving street lamps was 6,000 yuan, and that of ordinary high-pressure sodium lamps was less than 2,000 yuan. On Jiefang Road, a total length of 3 kilometers along the road, about 170 LED energy-saving street lamps were installed. Can be used more than a year, LED lights drive almost all maintenance and replacement, the cost is high.

“Technical staff concluded at the time that LED lights were used as street lights, which did not save energy. It may be used as a low-power lighting technology such as indoor lighting and landscape lighting. However, as a street light, its light efficiency and energy-saving effects are general. The person in charge said that, in addition to technical issues, LED lights are still lacking appropriate financial support for municipal lighting applications.

The failure of the trial of Jiefang Road led to the stagnation of the promotion of LED lights in the field of Nanjing street lamps. According to reports, Jiefang Road and Dingqiang Road in the urban area, Taishan Road in Jiangbei District, and some roads in Xianlin District have installed about 1,000 miles of LED street lamps. Compared with 120,000 street lamps in the main city, the proportion is very low. .

The performance and price have been optimized, and the re-acceptance of the street lamp market is expected

In the face of still closed doors in the field of street lamps, local LED lamp manufacturers in Nanjing are very anxious.

Nanjing Henderson Technology Co., Ltd. is an old LED manufacturing company in our city. Yang Hairong, executive vice president of the company, told reporters that when LED lighting just emerged a few years ago, the market was mixed and high quality products abound. However, in the past two years, the market has gradually developed in an orderly direction, and technology and prices have long been greatly optimized.

Since last year, the cost of domestic LED chips has dropped by 50%, which has also led to a significant drop in the price of LED lamps. "Like street lights, for example, the original 120-watt LED street lights were priced at about 4000-6000 yuan per unit. At present, the price has dropped to between 1,000-2,000 yuan, and the price of 250-watt high-pressure sodium lamps has been basically flat." Yang Haifeng Said that the current LED lights in the high-power lighting technology has gradually improved, light efficiency and other indicators have long been greatly improved, the degree of comfort of lighting has also been a long time ago, life expectancy can also reach 50,000 hours of indoor lighting.

The person in charge of the China Lighting Association once stated that with the sharp drop in prices, the industry will enter the reshuffle stage, and brands with truly high quality and low price will usher in great development. This year or the first year of large-scale promotion of LED lighting.

The above inference was confirmed by Yang Haifeng. He said that in addition to the home market, commercial and industrial enterprise markets are also very forceful this year. “In Nanjing, Suning Yunshang, Yurun Group, and Yangzi Petrochemical have purchased our LED lighting products for use in warehouses, workshops, etc. In areas that require long-time lighting, the energy consumption is only about 40% of that of ordinary energy-saving lamps.In our opinion, municipal street lamps should be the largest market for LED lamps in the future, and we expect the relevant government departments to re-examine the technical and price levels of LED street lamps. Let Nanjing's municipal market re-accept LED street lights."