Lighting Market Opportunity From Global Energy Crisis

Recently, the energy crisis caused by the conflict between Russia and Ukraine and the Western countries' sanctions against Russia has spread to the rest of the world after sweeping across Europe. Among them, lighting, as a field of greater energy consumption, has become an important object to be reduced by governments at all levels under energy shortage.

As of August this year, several European countries have reduced public lighting to save energy. This month, governments and public institutions in four more European and North African countries announced measures to reduce lighting energy use in response to the energy crisis.

In the UK, while the city council of Southampton says it will work hard to ensure the lights are on at its local Christmas market this year, the National Bank of England highlights in its forecasts that the super-doubling of energy prices, which are closely linked to Christmas lights, could be the final straw for many middle classes. So the city government has to find a solution that balances the need to turn on the Christmas lights with the need to lower energy prices.

In addition to local authorities, British public bodies are also looking to reduce financial costs by saving lighting energy, which is reflected in the worldwide popularity of English football leagues at all levels. A number of English football clubs are said to be considering kicking off at noon local time to save on energy bills as rising electricity bills push up the cost of lighting stadiums by £100,000 a season.

In France, the city of Paris announced on Sept. 10 that it would cut the nighttime lighting of the Eiffel Tower by more than an hour, as part of an energy-saving plan announced on Sept. 13. The lighting of the Eiffel Tower was also brought forward from 1 a.m. to 23:45 a.m. Given that nighttime lighting accounts for 4 percent of the tower's annual energy consumption during the energy crisis, the Paris government hopes to save some useful energy by shortening the lighting hours of the Eiffel Tower.

In addition to the Eiffel Tower, the city government of Paris also announced that the city government buildings, district government buildings, 14 museums in the city will be switched off at 22 a.m. every day from September 23. The Champs-Elysees council in Paris has asked shops on the avenue to turn off their night Windows and advertising screens from 22 a.m. to 7 a.m. on Oct. 15 to save energy.

In Belgium, the government of the Walloon region announced that from September 19, it will close the night lighting of highway sections, including the central berm of the highway will be shut off between 22:00 and 5:00, leaving only the intersection of risk lighting, in order to solve the problem of high energy prices. It is estimated that the initiative could save up to 400,000 euros in annual energy bills.

This move in the implementation of the same time, but also according to the emergence of emergency, winter weather and other special circumstances, with the help of intelligent lighting system, so that the highway lamps targeted open.

In Egypt, the economic crisis triggered by the war in Ukraine is casting a dark shadow over the country's streets as governments dim the lights to free up energy for export and boost hard currency reserves.

By reducing the lighting of streets and public squares, the government aims to protect the national "gas lifeline" through electricity rationing to achieve "an additional surplus -- on average 15 per cent of the gas delivered to power stations".

From the four countries and even after the European countries at all levels of government and public institutions lighting energy saving measures, are directly closed or dim light, can be called simple lighting can "cut", only the Belgian government of walloon region mentioned by intelligent lighting system for emergency lighting, but there was no more effective illumination in detail according to the need to intelligent solutions. It can be seen that the makers of these national lighting related policies and measures lack of scientific, reasonable and long-term planning to deal with the energy crisis.

Since the global lighting industry entered the LED era, with the elimination of incandescent lamp, fluorescent lamp, steam lamp and other lighting products with high energy consumption, lighting energy saving has gradually developed from "light source energy saving" to "intelligent/intelligent on-demand energy saving" represented by DALI dimming, DMX512 light control, RDM light control and other technical means. And then to the current "new energy saving" represented by non-electric lighting technologies such as solar energy, photovoltaic, wind-solar complementarity and light conduction. It can be said that the flexible use of diversified lighting energy-saving means will help countries around the world to solve the crisis of high energy consumption caused by soaring energy prices.

Look from the perspective of the global lighting industry development and old, allied to save energy and reduce lighting, will lead to increase of urban lighting lighting enterprises management system, all kinds of new energy lighting products and related application solution development dynamics, the solution of social livelihood of the people trapped under the background of the global energy crisis, at the same time also to lighting the market development of the enterprise and brand value promotion bring leap from quantity to quality, Enabling innovative changes in the global lighting industry.

As China Lighting people, we insist on the right path for the people in the domestic prosperity, but also have the courage to explore development opportunities in the global chaotic times, in order to continuously climb the career peak spread the light of human happiness value.