2011年4月19日 星期二

LED over the next five years

Nova Scotia converting all highway lighting to LED over the next five years

The government of Nova Scotia wants all roadway lighting in the province converted to more energy efficient light-emitting diodes over the next five years.

Premier Darrell Dexter said Monday his government will introduce legislation to mandate the change, which is expected to cost about $100 million.

Dexter said research shows that a switch to LED lights will create energy savings of more than 50 per cent.

There are about 120,000 roadway lights in the province,Huge market space has also been perceived by the star power of the country, and last year led light the industry chain of distribution. most owned and operated by Nova Scotia Power and about 10 per cent held by municipalities.

Some communities, such as Amherst, Halifax, Lunenburg and Antigonish, have already begun the change over.the chip has made, and the Taiwan chip, as well as imports of chips DSTT. Different chips, prices vary widely. Imports more expensive chip prices in the domestic market, few people use that mainly for high-end customers.China Merchants Securities researcher appear in the future, more space for led lighting business development is the LED lighting tube, said: "At present, the target has entered a stage of maturity, LED t5 tube applications directly in the existing areas have a high penetration rate, therefore, for companies to get the development needed to show tube LED light tube and five areas of development.Led Tube assembly points with manual welding and machine welding of two, is to use hand soldering iron, using the most primitive cfl bulbs way to carry out welding. Such practices out of the product first appearance of the ugly

LED bulbs consume less energy than standard bulbs and they last longer.

Dexter said Nova Scotia will become the first province or state in North America to have only LED streetlights on its roads.

"The switch to LED streetlights is just another example of what the province is doing to help the country meet its greenhouse-gas emission reduction targets," he added.

Amherst Mayor Robert Small said the town expects to save $85,000 this year in energy and maintenance costs as it converts to LED lighting on its streets.

"Plus,the brightness of LED with different different prices, the general highlighted the table lamps and compare the price difference between the poor. Therefore, the procurement must be clear when they need to know what kind of brightness, so as to accurately position their products. we can feel good knowing that we are doing our bit to make the air we breathe cleaner," he said in a statement.

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