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Report: Lighting apps boost LED usage
Nicolas Mokhoff
8/24/2011 2:24 PM EDT
MANHASSET, NY -- LED usage continues to rise across applications and lighting is leading with a predicted increase of 20 percent over 2010.
According to DisplaySearch, the total package revenue for backlight and lighting applications was $7.2 billion in 2010 and is forecast to reach $12.7 billion in 2014. A heightened demand for LED lighting applications is the main driver of this increase.
In 2011, DisplaySearch predicts global LED capacity will reach 180 billion units, and by 2013 will reach 227 billion.
The total average LED penetration in lighting was 1.4 percent in 2010 and is forecast to reach 9.3 percent in 2014.
China will be the biggest market for LED street lights in 2011 due to government policies. The country’s market share in 2011 is 55 percent, but will slightly decline to 50 percent in 2014.
Japan is the biggest market for LED bulbs in 2011 with a market share of 63 percent in 2011, but is forecast to decline to 40 percent in 2014. Japan has high LED adoption in lighting due to electrical power limitations and energy-saving efforts.
According to DisplaySearch, Taiwan will take over as the top LED supply country after 2011.
The quarterly LED supply/demand market forecast report is available from DisplaySearch.
According to DisplaySearch, the total package revenue for backlight and lighting applications was $7.2 billion in 2010 and is forecast to reach $12.7 billion in 2014. A heightened demand for LED lighting applications is the main driver of this increase.
In 2011, DisplaySearch predicts global LED capacity will reach 180 billion units, and by 2013 will reach 227 billion.
The total average LED penetration in lighting was 1.4 percent in 2010 and is forecast to reach 9.3 percent in 2014.
China will be the biggest market for LED street lights in 2011 due to government policies. The country’s market share in 2011 is 55 percent, but will slightly decline to 50 percent in 2014.
Japan is the biggest market for LED bulbs in 2011 with a market share of 63 percent in 2011, but is forecast to decline to 40 percent in 2014. Japan has high LED adoption in lighting due to electrical power limitations and energy-saving efforts.
According to DisplaySearch, Taiwan will take over as the top LED supply country after 2011.
The quarterly LED supply/demand market forecast report is available from DisplaySearch.
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dblaza1
8/24/2011 3:31 PM EDT
EDN has a free Designing with LED's event in Boston on September 27 which will feature the world's most efficient LED bulb (so far!)
http://e.ubmelectronics.com/LED/
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Dhariyash
9/14/2011 3:24 AM EDT
Is there any webinar available David? I can't be in boston :D
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chanj
8/24/2011 4:36 PM EDT
LED light bulb is sold 8 times as much as CFL and more than 20 times as much as regular Incandescent light bulb in US. The acceptance is going to be slow. What would the vendor and would the government do to promote the energy efficient LED light bulb?
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wilber_xbox
8/28/2011 1:13 PM EDT
i guess that government is making policies to encourage efficient lighting. I am sure that government will not subsidize LEDs.
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LarryM99
8/24/2011 10:18 PM EDT
I still say that LEDs may be best used for lighting in a form factor other than a traditional bulb. Even CFL sometimes is a stretch to use in a light socket. Are there people out there doing LED designs that are more inventive? I know that portable LED lights are doing it (example: lights that clip onto hats).
Larry M.
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agk
8/25/2011 4:58 AM EDT
LED lights have a bright future. If the cost of it is within 4 times of any good florescent lamps of same light levels users will opt it easily. This is for the simple reason most of the houses the use of light is in the evenings for about 4 hrs. The electricity spent is less. Only in business places the lights are used for atleast 12 to 15 hrs a day and the savings in the electricity will pay back the money invested in LED lights.
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GREAT-Terry
8/25/2011 8:06 AM EDT
It may not be easy to cut down the cost so much as compare to incandescent bulb as the cost structure is in principle so different. However, I agree with @agk that LED light has a very good advantage in enviornment that needs over 10 hours (in Asia, many shopping malls opens from 10a.m. to midnight and some factories run 24 hours a day) and I believe this is still the best market for efficient LED lighting. Just like @LarryM99 said, LED lighting can be built in many different form factor that normal CFL won't fit. So, I won't expect to see very cheap LED light bulb being widely used at home in very short time but I would expect to see LED lighting frames (may not be in normal light bulb) being spread out in almost every commercial facilities.
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elctrnx_lyf
8/25/2011 3:10 PM EDT
The energy efficiency is the best factor why we need LED's. The LED lighting will increase every year considerably.
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Bert22306
8/25/2011 8:39 PM EDT
LEDs just make a lot of sense, if only their price would come down some. Of course, they do last way much longer than even CFLs, so that ought to be a consideration when experiencing sticker shock. And they are also marginally more efficient than CFLs, and don't need mercury, so there's some more icing on the cake.
And sure, LEDs can be fashioned directly into lamps and such, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't also be sold as simple replacement bulbs. I know we have become a throw-away culture, but jeez. LED lights may not burn out, but they do lose lumens over time. So what, you buy an expensive lamp, either age alone starts making the built-in LED dim, or some minor defect kills the LED entirely, and now you've got to trash the whole thing? That sounds crazy to me.
Not sure about appliances like ovens and refrigerators. My design would be, use LEDs located outside the hot or cold space, and feed their light into the appliance via optical fibers. Of course, appliance makers will prefer to not make the LED light source replaceable, so they can sell you a whole new appliance if the LED quits!
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LarryM99
8/26/2011 12:49 PM EDT
With small items that generally have limited lifetimes it is pretty much a no-brainer to move to LED lighting that is integrated into the item. With larger appliances it might make more sense to make it modular without necessarily adhering to traditional lighting standards (i.e. a replaceable panel instead of a bulb). Given that this would probably be changed once or maybe twice over the lifetime of a major appliance it would still be advantageous. My new refrigerator has LED lighting, for example. I would expect to replace the compressor before I need to replace the LEDs.
Larry M.
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Bert22306
8/26/2011 3:47 PM EDT
It's not that I disagree with you, Larry. It's more like, what you suggest will likely happen but it's not necessarily a good thing.
Sticking to standards makes things easy to find and simple to install. What you are suggesting will be an excuse to make the replacement part harder to find, without question a lot more expensive, and most likely not replaceable by even the most clueless of users, as light bulbs are now.
But since we have seen just this trend time and time again, sometimes for good reasons and other times for questionable reasons, I don't doubt that what you suggest will likely come to pass.
The other thing is, if LEDs don't at least ALSO come in standard standard edison base form, what happens to all existing light fixtures? There would be a revolt if the manufacturers got together to make them all obsolete. So I just don't see that as a realistic possibility.
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Sanjib.Acharya
8/26/2011 9:27 PM EDT
I really appreciate the Chinese Govt for actively venturing promotion policies to boost LED street lighting usage. LED lighting industry has a bright future. Once the price comes down, the popularity and usage might get increased by a greater proportion.
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p_g
8/27/2011 5:36 PM EDT
But still LED has not reached to a level that it can replace 100W bulbs easily. Yes bundle of LED's can hit that. I am sure there will be lot more progress in LED in next few years leading to even more penetration in day to day life usage.
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goafrit
8/27/2011 7:40 PM EDT
This is very interesting. LED has been a strong segment because it is more environmentally friendly.
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wilber_xbox
8/28/2011 1:15 PM EDT
There is already a lot of pressure on LED markets and the last time i checked the LED displays were in short supply and selling at higher price. Shouldn't we first make sure that the price come down to an affordable level.
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DrQuine
8/29/2011 7:05 PM EDT
Since Hurricane Irene knocked out our power in Connecticut 36 hours ago, I'm appreciating my bright long lasting LED flashlight. A great directional light source. However, for area lighting, the 8 LED lantern is expensive and unsatisfactory. A candle was actually more satisfactory! I think the incandescent / CFL replacement killer application isn't quite here.
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tb1
9/16/2011 6:38 PM EDT
One night I was surprised to see white light outside my house, rather than the normal yellowish color-washout light from the corner sodium streetlamp. "Is it a full moon out?" I thought. Nope--they had replaced the streetlight with an LED array light.
It was really nice.
They are doing this all over California:
http://www.pge.com/mybusiness/energysavingsrebates/rebatesincentives/ref/lighting/lightemittingdiodes/streetlightprogram.shtml
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sharps_eng
9/19/2011 3:21 AM EDT
Soon, our cities and roads will look very different from the air, I have always chafed at the amount of light beamed upwards from each old-style streetlamp. At least with LEDs they can't afford to waste any lumens like that!
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SILICON Corporation
9/28/2011 2:51 PM EDT
Everyone must behave in favor of the triple bottom of the sustainability. Not differently, the SILICON Corporation Company support the great idea of using LEDs to light the world, even in those regions where the energy generation is not a big problem.
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