U.S. and Japan LED lighting industry policy analysis

As energy saving and environmental protection industries in twenty-first Century the most development potential of the semiconductor lighting industry, the rapid development of the United States, Europe and Asia in various countries and regions are actively implementing the semiconductor lighting plan to LED lighting industry layout.

Japan: "retired" incandescent bulb time

In June 12th, Japan's environment minister Hosono Nhoshi, economy minister Eno Yukio issued a joint statement said, in response to the summer power shortage situation, the electrical contractor must immediately stop production and sales of incandescent bulbs, to promote LED lighting.

According to the Japanese government in 2008 introduced the relevant policies and regulations, incandescent bulbs must be withdrawn from the market before 2012. However, due to the supply of electricity this summer, or will be 15% of the gap, the Japanese government decided to advance the incandescent bulb "retirement" time.

Held in Guangzhou this year "2012 Asian LED forum, Jil senior managing director of mud Canon said the March 2011 Fukushima earthquake, the power supply in eastern Japan tensions. In order to alleviate this phenomenon, the Japanese government began to implement ecological point plan, as well as the establishment and implementation of green procurement law, electrical appliances and other safety laws, urged LED lighting consumption grew by more than 200%.

South Korea: to develop policies to strengthen the industry to become a new industry leader LED

South Korea as part of the Asian market in the country, although the layout started relatively late, but the rapid rise in just a few years, the industry has become the new leader.

In recent years, the South Korean government to actively promote energy-saving lighting, formulated a series of policies to enhance the training of the LED industry, such as "15/30 universal plan" and "national green growth strategy" and "green LED lighting development plan", and puts forward the planning, 2012 LED lighting market share increased from 8.3% in 2008 to 15%.

2012 to February, through the test of the green growth policy, the public part of the LED lighting universal budget from 8 billion 200 million yuan in 2011, a substantial increase to $31 billion 900 million in 2012.

June 8, 2011, the South Korean government launched a new energy saving goal: by 2020 will achieve public utilities 100%LED lighting, the national LED lighting penetration rate increased to 60%.

South Korea to the city as the center to gradually expand the use of LED lighting appliances. As of April 2010, Seoul, South Korea, a total of about 930 thousand public institutions in the lighting appliances, of which 17% have been replaced by LED lighting appliances, and plans to 2020 before the Seoul public institutions all lighting appliances are replaced by LED.

The South Korean government has plans to invest more than 1 trillion won in the field of chip development by 2012, and is also expected to increase investment in research and development in the new field of LED lighting industry to ensure that South Korea has the world's leading technology.

United States: SSL plans to occupy the leading position in the industry

The development of LED industry in Europe is relatively mature, so there is no similar large-scale subsidy policy in china. In 2009, the European Union passed regulations to eliminate incandescent lamps from the market in the year of 2009 to the year of 2012. LEDinside's 2011 -2015 Europe LED lighting market report "pointed out that in 2011 the European lighting market has steadily grown to $18 billion 900 million, compared to 2010 growth of 10%, among them, the 2011 European LED lighting market has exceeded $2 billion 80 million. In the next few years, the policy implications of a comprehensive ban on incandescent bulbs, the market is expected to show a substantial growth. LEDinside predicts that the European LED lighting market will reach $10 billion by 2015, the CAGR of 2011-2015 is expected to be about 38%.

The United States is the LED technology and the industry leader, its high-end technology, patent and standard system to match competitors. The status of the industry leader in the United States, mainly due to the early ten years ago began to vigorously implement the solid-state lighting technology research program (SSL) as the core of a series of LED industrial policy measures.

At the end of April 2012, the U.S. Department of energy released a new "solid state lighting plan (SSL plan). The plan focuses on the technical research and development, product manufacturing, commercial support, patent standard system, and puts forward the goal, route and corresponding countermeasures to promote the development of LED industry in the United states.

Under the SSL program, the U.S. Department of energy predicts that by 2030 the United States LED solid state lighting market share will reach 73.7%. At the same time, it will save 297 trillion kilowatt hours (equivalent to $30 billion) per year of lighting electricity, about 45.8% of the lighting power and carbon emissions of 2.1 tons.

In addition, the United States President Obama to actively promote green energy policy, that $150 billion launched a 10 year green construction plan, the development of zero energy building (ZeroEnergyBuilding) is one of the objectives of the United States government energy policy. According to the U.S. Department of energy development plan, expected in 2012 when the cold white LED light emitting element efficiency up to 176lm/W, in 2015 increased to 224lm/W, and 2020 258lm/W, 2010 the actual luminous efficiency is more than 2 times.