As to the developing stage of domestic LED indoor lighting, Zhangli, executive vice president of Sichuan Xinli Lighting Company regarded that LED indoor lighting is still on the preparing stage and this period will last for 2-3 years. After that, with the improvement of consumers’ awareness, the maturity of regulation, standard establishment, productive technology will enter into the primary promotion phase. With the recover of world economy and the improvement of customers’ economic strength as well as the influence of energy shortage and the increase of electricity price, it is estimated that the promotion of LED indoor lighting will be fast after 2015. The market share of LED indoor lighting may reach 70-80% by 2015.
The Vigorous blossom of business opportunities of LED bulb after 2014
Now, domestic LED indoor lighting mainly focuses on decoration lighting, for example some entertainment places, commercial lighting and public lighting like underground parking lot and star-rated hotels, having not yet stepped into the large market of ordinary home lighting. The principal indoor lighting products are commercial fluorescent lamp, down lamp, spotlight, LED bulb which replaced incandescent lamp and freezer lamp etc.
Peng Wanhua, vice director of semiconductor lighting technology standard working group from Ministry of Industry and Information pointed out that according to the development plan of oversea LED indoor lighting, it is predicted to mainly promote business lighting from 2010-2012, general lighting, that is home lighting from 2012-2015. From the perspective of technology, the quality of the light now, for example the light color is not good enough. However, the requirement for home lighting is pretty high, so the home lighting is not encouraged in recent years.
As the trend of future lighting, what is the process for LED to march into indoor lighting market extensively? LED bulb is an important part among numerous LED indoor lighting products. According to relevant research of international lighting bulb market by TRI, in a short time at least before 2017, the market is dominant jointly by traditional lighting source, incandescent lamp, fluorescent lamp and new lighting source such as LED bulb. At present, LED bulb is still at the primary phase of market entering and it takes time to substitute various traditional and energy-saving lighting. It is expected that after 2014 the business opportunity of LED bulb will grow dramatically and the need will far more than fluorescent lamp and other lighting after 2018.