LED home lighting prices difficult to promote, when the incandescent lamp was replaced?

In recent years, China's LED industry has developed rapidly. As a semiconductor that can convert electric energy directly into light energy, LED has been widely favored for its long life, high luminous efficiency, no radiation, and low power consumption. Especially at the moment when the entire society advocates energy-saving and emission-reduction, the development prospect of LED is generally optimistic.

In November 2011, the National Development and Reform Commission issued a road map to phase out incandescent lamps, aiming to promote the optimization and upgrading of the structure of China's lighting industry and help the 'Twelfth Five-Year' energy-saving and emission reduction task. LED lighting is an ideal replacement for incandescent lamps, and its home market is huge. Therefore, LED home lighting has been vigorously promoted by manufacturers in recent years, and media reports and commentaries have also praised its energy-saving advantages.

However, according to the comprehensive understanding of the electromechanical online Xiaobian, the current promotion of LED lighting is still a certain degree of difficulty, still mainly concentrated in more professional areas, such as government procurement, hotels, offices and so on. The huge home market space has not yet been truly developed.

LED 'nobility' value is difficult to get close to the public It is reported that the most direct reason why LED home lighting is difficult to carry out large-scale promotion is its higher price.

For ordinary people, the biggest attraction of LED lighting lies in its energy-saving features. Compared to the incandescent lamp, which consumes a large amount of heat while emitting light, the LED directly converts the electric energy into light energy, thereby greatly saving energy. In general, 6W LED lamps have the same luminous efficacy as conventional 40W incandescent lamps.

Although from the perspective of saving electricity costs, the advantages of LED are very significant. However, due to the fact that LED prices are often several times higher than those of incandescent lamps, many consumers believe that they should use the electricity savings to offset the LED's higher prices. They do not know what year and month they will wait.

According to the observation of electromechanical online Xiaobian on Taobao.com, the price of a 40W incandescent lamp is generally around RMB 2,3, while the 6W LED lamp with about the same luminous efficiency is at least RMB 40. The online price is over RMB 100. There are also many lights.

Under such circumstances, although many consumers are very much in agreement with the LED energy saving effect, there are still few actual buyers. Many lighting dealers also said that LED home lighting is still in the promotion stage, and more consumers tend to buy energy-saving lamps with relatively low prices.

Lack of core technologies LED suffers from cost pressures The price of LED lighting has long been stubbornly high, and it has a direct relationship with the lack of core technology in China's LED manufacturing companies and cost containment.

Insiders said that despite the rapid development of China's LED industry, production capacity is strong, but from the overall point of view, China's LED companies lack the ability to innovate, more than production and lack of innovation.

For a long time, the core technology of epitaxial wafers and chip market in the upstream of LED has been monopolized by several giants of foreign industries. China's LED lighting industry is weak in the two key areas of epitaxial wafers and chips, making it difficult to reduce the cost of LED lighting.

It is understood that the cost of LED lighting mainly in the LED chip, as long as China's LED companies to master the core technology, to break the monopoly of foreign technology, chip prices are expected to be reduced, when the LED lumen unit price can be reduced to the current stage of energy-saving lamps Quite the LED home lighting market will open.

Another reason why LED home lighting is difficult to popularize is that consumers are still in a very ambiguous initial phase of their awareness of LED products. Although the potential of the LED lighting market is obviously very large, the recognition of LED lighting products is not high in terms of current demand and sales.

Obviously, China's LED companies still need to continue to strengthen their efforts in terms of technology and publicity. It is believed that with the further development of the LED industry, the popularity of LED home lighting is only a matter of time.