Japan to accelerate the development of LED lighting in 2011 LED demand surge

2011 Japan 311 earthquake caused damage to the Fukushima nuclear disaster, and the Northeast Kanto, a thermal power plant, although after repair has been part of the power plant to resume operation, the power company also added emergency gas turbine generator and the use of pumped storage power generation to increase power supply, but to predict the summer peak period, there are still 5 million kW power supply contains doubts lack of the capital Tokyo, the Kanto region, so the Japanese government appealed to businesses and families take conservation measures, aiming to reduce energy consumption by 25% to 20%.

According to the energy statistics report, 2008 Japanese household energy consumption, household appliances and lighting accounted for 35.9% of the proportion of energy-saving appliances in Japan because of environmental policy points (Eco-Point) to assist the promotion and popularization of the LED lighting is not yet universal, so the Japanese electricity shortage will have the opportunity to drive the growth of LED lighting.

In fact, the proportion of sales of electric ball type LED lamp after the 311 earthquake is growing rapidly, and in less than 1 months, it has increased by more than 10 percentage points. From the region to see, can be found in the Kanto region of the ball type LED lamp sales growth rate was significantly higher than that of Japan, which shows that the problem of insufficient power to accelerate the popularity of LED lighting in japan.

Not only the general public, Japanese companies are also actively use LED lighting, in Japan's top 2 convenience stores 7-ELeven and Lawson for example, is expected in the summer of 2011, a total of 8000 stores and two convenience store group will switch to LED lighting, and food and beverage group and people will be in its 188 stores by LED Home Furnishing SAKAYA lighting.

Japan power issues will accelerate the development of LED lighting, DIGITIMES is expected in 2011 the Japanese electric bulb type LED lamp sales will reach 2 times in 2010, for the 30 million.