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Rush to produce energy-saving bulbs
Several local and foreign lighting equipment manufacturers are rushing to use the latest technologies for production to take advantage of Viet Nam's push for energy conservation.
Viet Nam-owned Dien Quang Lamp Joint-Stock Company, which has been highly successful in manufacturing energy-saving lights, especially the compact fluorescent light bulbs, is planning to produce light-emitting diode (LED) lamps for optimal power savings.
Pham Minh Thang, Dien Quang company's vice chairman and deputy general director, said they had reduced production on energy-inefficent lights, and now held a 65 per cent market share in the country.
The company plans to manufacture LED lamps in the market this year, thanks to technical supervision from the United Nations Development Programme's energy- efficient lighting project.
This year the company will introduce a collection of lamps using LED technology and the products will be sold to restricted consumers, such as luxurious hotels and apartments, due to the high cost.
Thang said that emitting diode lamps would be widely used in Europe by 2014. Several companies in Viet Nam have studied and begun producing and selling the light in the market.
"It will soon be commercialised in Viet Nam now," he said.
The company's output of power-saving products climbed from 30,000 products in 2006 to 10 million compact lights last year.
The US-backed Schreder Viet Nam, which produces light reflectors in the country, plans to expand their business in Viet Nam. Currently, the company produces 43,000 products every year.
Nguyen Khanh Binh, general director of the company, said the amount of product would increase when other factories were built in Viet Nam, adding the company also produced LED lights for public lighting.
FawooKidi Technology, the joint venture between locally-owned Kim Dinh Company and South Korean Fawoo Technology, began manufacturing LED lamps early last year.
Le Trong Dinh, chairman of the joint venture, said the company manufactured more than 8,000 lamps using light-emitting diode technology a day.
FawooKidi on Thursday replaced 39 public lights with LED lights on HCM City's Thanh Thai Street, which became the first street in Viet Nam lighted with LED technology.
Dinh said besides the LED lamps on District 10's Thanh Thai Street, 10 more lamps will be installed soon on another street, with the hopes of saving power for public lighting.
Recently, locally owned Rang Dong Light Source and Vacuum Flask JSC began producing lamps and decorative lights applying LED technology.
According to experts, using LED lights help consumers save up to between 30 to 90 per cent electricity if compared with other types of lamps.
The lifespan of this kind of light is 20 times longer than others. However, due to the high price, the light is most often used for advertising, high-ranking construction projects or public lighting.
Since the nation's energy conservation campaign on lighting began five years ago, government offices, companies and households have saved 4.5 billion kWh of electricity by using energy-efficient lighting.
However, according to Vu Minh Mao, head of the Viet Nam Lighting Association, every year the country can save at least 6.3 billion kWh in electricity from the lighting system.
Between 2006 and 2007, Electricity of Viet Nam provided 1 million compact lamps to households in 3,000 communes in the country's rural areas.
The amount of lights provided to the families increased to 5 million during the 2008 – 10 period.
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