Aim to replace all incandescent bulbs with LED lights in 3 years: Piyush Goyal

The union government is aiming to completely replace all incandescent bulbs in the country with LED lights in next three years, informed Piyush Goyal, Minister of State for Power, Coal, and New & Renewable Energy, at a conference on ‘Business of Lighting’ held on July 22, 2015. This, according to the minister, will provide huge business opportunity to the lighting industry as the LED market will expand rapidly in India.
 
At present, while the government procures LED bulb at Rs 72 per unit, market prices continue to very high. Stating that the gap still looks unreasonably huge, Piyush Goyal said, correcting this gap will help the lighting industry to increase the production in terms of volumes.
 
He added, “Government is facilitating industry to mature and reach to every home by promoting the LED programme in the country. Government is capable of providing LED bulbs to every household at lower rates but it will remove the competitive edge from the industry. At the end of the day market forces have to take over. We wish Indian industry to not just assemble but also start manufacturing the LED lightings.”
 
Emphasising on the role of innovation in the products related to LED, Goyal, said, “Government is willing to support research and development for bringing innovation in this industry. Solar LED street lights are the future of this industry and it can provide unimaginable business opportunities in remote areas of the country.”
 
Goyal also launched National DELP Dashboard for continuous monitoring of LED distribution under 100 City Domestic Efficient Lighting Programme (DELP) managed by Energy Efficiency Services Limited.
 
National DELP Dashboard is an integrated, real-time, and web-based dashboard which dynamically refreshes at an interval of 15-sec to display in real-time, number of LEDs distributed at national level. This is achieved by aggregating real-time feeds from multiple states where DELP is ongoing. National Dashboard also offers a DELP state view – allowing the user to view state wise DELP numbers on India’s map, thus presenting at an interval of 15 sec the number of LEDs distributed at individual state level. Only the states where DELP is ongoing appear highlighted.