Taiwan in 2012 will be the first to start the three City million plan to fully support the LED industry in Taiwan

Recently, Taiwan Economic Department announced, will fully support the Taiwan LED industry, 2012 will be the first to start the "three city lights" plan, priority replacement and Hsinchu city and Keelung city in Chiayi mercury lamp. Estimated that by the end of 2018 is expected to be replaced by more than half of Taiwan mercury street lamp, driven by more than NT $6 billion 400 million LED output value.

Taiwan's Ministry of economic affairs, said the plan launched in early three by the central, local and manufacturers of the parties to share the energy saving performance guarantee service mechanism (ESCO), hoping to replace the entire station in nearly 800 thousand mercury street lamps. "Three city lights" plan, the initial budget size of about 330 million yuan, about 19 thousand facelift LED lights.

At present, the whole station mercury street lamp about about 800000, rough estimate of the total funding for up to 18 billion yuan, if the implementation of the ESCO mechanism, the central financial burden can be significantly reduced to $about 3000000000. Over the past three years, through the LED road lighting demonstration program has been replaced by the station's 21 thousand street lamps.

ESCO refers to the government to pay part of the purchase price of the purchase of the manufacturers, the other part of the local government in accordance with the effectiveness of the product and electricity tariff pricing, payment of the remaining money to the manufacturers every year. The implementation of ESCO can reduce the financial burden of the government, create the largest domestic demand, help to support the LED industry.