Emerging Markets Outlook for LED lighting - Africa market

The day before an African Zimbabwe began to use the LED street news caused concern to the industry, but also to understand the city can spend for Africa to save energy and reduce lighting operation, will be a new milepost lighting business in africa.

China Africa trade grew rapidly in Africa LED lighting demand increased year by year

It is understood that dating back to 1950, the average annual growth of China Africa trade 43.5%. As of 2011, China Africa trade volume reached 160 billion U.S. dollars, China has become Africa's largest trading partner. As a result, the economic modernization of emerging African countries has attracted more and more attention, especially in the global economic recession, the African economy is still retrograde to maintain rapid growth. Africa has 15% of the world's population, as a basis for municipal lighting and lighting the most development potential of the global market in recent years, Africa has been committed to the development of Sustainable Lighting Solutions for effective solution to energy consumption, to promote LED lighting demand increased year by year in the global trend of low carbon.

In the lighting industry, in Africa, solar panels power shortly before driving bulb required for 20-30 watts, because people can only afford to buy incandescent lamps, but LED lamp with high efficiency, people only need to power only a few watts of solar panels to meet the lighting needs. With LED lights, batteries and solar panels prices continue to fall, coupled with innovative business plan, Africa and other regions of the millions of households will most likely be able to abandon the kerosene lamp and incandescent lamp, lighting to use more advanced technology.

Global LED well-known companies have thrown a lot of money in the layout of the African lighting market

According to incomplete statistics, from the beginning of the end of last year, one after another came out of the African LED industry development of good news, by the end of 2011, South Africa became the first African country to eliminate incandescent light. In addition, the introduction of LED lighting technology in South Africa each year for the enterprises to save about 4100 gold (nearly 4 million euros) energy, and reduce the amount of 60000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions; over the same period, the world climate conference in South Africa held in Durban, PHILPS officials called for as soon as possible to realize the globalization of LED lighting. PHILPS CEO JJ van Africa Dongen LED lighting has been a great benefit to African countries, and LED lighting technology for other high technology (such as mobile phone technology development) provides the possibility of leap development.

Public information also shows that by the end of 2011, the national development and Reform Commission, with the support of the Ministry of finance, the official launch of the international cooperation on climate change. Through the establishment of special funds, within 3 years of African countries and other developing countries presented LED lights and other energy-saving low carbon products; to this year, recently in Africa Zimbabwe also began to use LED lights, the move will be a new milepost, let the African city to save energy and reduce cost of lighting operation.

It is worth mentioning is that PHILPS plans to invest 1 million 200 thousand euros to build 100 solar powered LED Lighting Center in rural African communities, each with a small size of a football field, solve the problems in rural Africa without electric lighting. In addition, OSRAM, GE, Spike, etc., including the global LED lighting well-known companies in the layout of the African market.

Africa dawn open LED lighting industry has great economic potential

China's LED lighting industry will usher in the African opportunity". As a result, Chinese as the largest developing country, the semiconductor lighting products and the African market is born, in low carbon and energy saving common development era, now is a good time to cut the African market of semiconductor lighting enterprises. Two governments and enterprises should now establish appropriate channels, financial and market protection mechanisms, make full use of government policies, the integration of relevant resources on the platform of the alliance, as soon as possible so that lighting companies take root in africa.

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