India could save up to US$6 billion per year under the government’s current plan to switch to light-emitting diode (LED) light bulbs by 2018.
The announcement was made by Piyush Goyal, Minister for Power, Coal,
New and Renewable Energy, Government of India, at an event at the
Harvard College US India Initiative in Mumbai.
"When all the 71 crore conventional bulbs are replaced by LED bulbs
it will result in a saving of 100 billion units of electricity," said
the Minister.
As The Climate Group’s LED projects have proven, the energy and money
saving potential of energy efficient lighting such as LEDs around the
world is unprecedented – particularly in India.
India’s lighting sector alone is responsible for about 18% of the country’s total power production, which compares to a global average of just 13%. Offering potential energy savings of 50-70%, large-scale
adoption of LED lighting could bring the figure for India down to the
global average, significantly cutting its carbon emissions as well as
the need to build more energy plants.
Street lights offer one of the greatest energy saving opportunities. To date, there are 35 million street lights in India,
consuming 3,400 megawatts (MW) of energy. The government estimates that
an upgrade to LED lighting could reduce power consumption for street
lighting to 1,400 MW – a decrease of almost 60%....
The Government of India has been very supportive of energy efficient
lighting so far. In January 2015, the Prime Minister Modi launched the National Program for LED-based Home and Street Lighting.
The initiative aims at encouraging LED lighting by targeting
installation in 100 Indian cities by March 2016, and remaining cities by
March 2019 – upgrading a total of 770 million bulbs and 35 million
street lights. The initiative is already way ahead of schedule.
To accelerate adoption of energy efficient lighting in India and the
rest of the world, over the past two years The Climate Group has worked
with Philips Lighting and Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation on a
global consultation program for cities and municipalities.
Initial findings from The Climate Group's global consultation were presented in ‘The Big Switch’ report, which was presented at Climate Week NYC in September 2015. At the global summit, we also called for every city and utility around the world to seek to switch to LED lights (or as energy efficient as) by 2025, and launched our ‘LED=Lower Emissions Delivered’ campaign to support cities, utilities and governments around the world in achieving this target.
Following a consultation workshop they held in New Delhi
last year, The Climate Group is now in the process of organizing a
follow-up workshop to explore the potential for energy efficient
lighting in the broader South Asia region – enlarging our reach to also
include Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Pakistan.
This post is part of their LED=Lower Emissions Delivered Campaign.
Additional Reading:
- 76,000 LED lamps to light up rural India
- Los Angeles first city to install SmartPole street lighting technology developed by Philips and Ericsson
- The Climate Group calls for all city street lighting to switch to LED by 2025: new report reveals carbon and cost savings
The Climate Group http://www.theclimategroup.org
January 12, 2016 Post
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