Australia to promote energy-saving lighting products in China LED is expected to benefit

The Australian government has been banned since 2009 on the market to sell tungsten lamp, and plans to gradually promote the inefficient lighting products out of the market, and will be in July 2012 since the implementation of levying carbon tax, the expected electricity will rise 10%, if the power consumption is constant, the household electricity will increase each year 300 Australian dollars (about $307), therefore, the policy is expected to further lead such as product demand.

Australia's environment ministry estimates that the policy to 2012, will help Australia to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 4 million tons. In recent years, Australia 1 years of electricity for about $2 billion, the family and the commercial electricity accounted for 37% of total electricity consumption, the Australian government estimates, if the full use of energy-efficient lighting, 2008~2020 years will save the energy consumption of about 30 megawatt hours of electricity, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 28 million tons.

In 2011 Australia lighting market forecast will reach $1 billion 570 million, about half of which are from mainland Chinese imports, far higher than Germany, the United States and Italy are single digit market share, the Australian mainland China lighting market depends on the proportion of imported high.

LED related products, more than half of imports from mainland China, in the future if the mainland LED lighting technology and quality to further enhance, will have the opportunity to become the main area of LED lighting imports in australia.