Formulating Standards to Promote the Healthy Development of LED

Semiconductor lighting is a strategic emerging industry with the most potential for development in the 21st century. In recent years, all countries in the world have arranged special funds, set up special plans, formulated strict incandescent lamp elimination plans, and vigorously supported the semiconductor lighting technology innovation and industrial development in the country.

China's "12th Five-Year Plan" "Outline" places energy conservation and environmental protection in important strategic areas. On May 12, 2012, the "National Development and Reform Commission of the People's Republic of China Notice" (No. 10 of 2012) was issued to determine the list of enterprises with the goal of "energy-saving and low-carbon actions for 10,000 enterprises" and their energy saving goals. "Energy conservation and emission reduction work has been implemented. Calculated according to 10% of electricity consumption, LED lighting will contribute 75 billion kilowatt-hours of energy to the lighting industry.

Technological innovation, strive for international leadership

Yu Zhilong, general manager of Shanghai William Lighting Electric, said: We should focus on technological innovation, develop our own technology line, we must not blindly copy and imitate, but we must also avoid following the hype. Otherwise, it will seriously hinder the healthy development of China's LED industry. Should vigorously carry out technology research and development, will focus on how to improve the LED lighting system light efficiency, product life, product performance, product quality and product reliability, reduce costs, and really improve the technical level of China's LED, to overcome the core technical difficulties, Strive for the leading position in the world.

People familiar with LED lighting technology know that, as the operating temperature of LED chips increases, the lifetime and luminous efficiency of LEDs will decrease. Therefore, the heat dissipation of LEDs is very important. At present, manufacturers engaged in this area are generally thinking about how to use the most effective heat sink to solve the heat problem. When this issue becomes a hot topic in the industry, can we change the way of thinking and avoid or minimize the use of heat sinks or other better alternatives? As we all know, LED lighting needs light distribution, and Philips and other companies use secondary light distribution technology. The route, so everyone went up and tried to imitate. Can we make light distribution one time, which can optimize the process and increase the efficiency? This issue is worth pondering.

Strengthening legal system to protect intellectual property

LED lighting technology is a systematic project that requires systematic consideration of technical solutions. In the application of Edvartech's differential core technology (Edva tech), the R30 spotlight produced as early as two years ago is still ranked first in the field of energy efficiency in the United States Energy Star LED lighting products, and has an energy efficiency of 50,000 hours. First place, this is a good example. LED lighting is still young and there are many places that can be improved and innovated. In the recent tendering of financial subsidies for LED lighting products led by our country’s relevant departments, such problems existed. Regarding financial subsidies for LED lighting products by relevant countries, the opinion given by the famous lighting experts in China is that there is no relevant national standard. How to implement subsidies?

The national authority responsible for LED lighting seems to be not clear enough, and the general enterprises are easily confused. At present, there are several centralized departments involved in China's LED lighting, plus various associations, alliances and local authorities.

In general, multi-headed leaders are prone to duplication of management functions, low management efficiency, and high management costs, and are prone to waste of social resources and national financial resources. Can we learn from the experiences of other countries to improve management efficiency and save state expenditure?

Let us understand the practice of the United States. As the “solid-state lighting market needs government initiative sponsorship” (from "LEDs for General Illumination Update 2002-Full Edition"), the U.S. government has given the LED industry four aspects: macro planning, technology research and development, government procurement, and association support. Strong support. Taking the “Energy Star” semiconductor general lighting promoted by the U.S. government as an example, the United States will lead the Department of Energy at 1:30 pm and organize semiconductor lighting experts, manufacturers, design teams, and marketing agencies to discuss the development of semiconductors. Lighting "Energy Star" standard, the development process of LED lighting technology has developed a series of test standards and testing methods who have established "Lighting Facts LabEL" to reflect the real performance data of LED lighting products, tested by the national statutory certification department Products that meet the "Energy Star" standard have been issued with the "Energy Star" logo, and strictly follow the proper use of this registered logo. After completing the above preliminary work, the Department of Energy returned the management authority for the “Energy Star” certification of LED lighting products to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

In the formulation of standards should be brainstorming, to consider the optimization of economic and social benefits. “I once participated in the development of the US “Energy Star” solid-state lighting standard, and proposed the meaning of one of the modifications related to the power factor requirement. I adopted the recommendations made in the finalized standard, basically for LED lamps less than 5W. The power factor requirement. This alone can save the society billions of resources."

The Energy Star program helps businesses and consumers make smarter decisions by providing reliable and objective information.

Facts have proved that the "Lighting Facts Label" and "Energy Star" labeling measures adopted by the U.S. government have changed consumers' consumption habits, improved the energy efficiency concepts of consumers and manufacturers, and effectively achieved market guidance. At the same time, the "Energy Star" is the basis for US government procurement of energy-saving products, providing manufacturers and distributors with very clear market information, expanding the market for energy-saving products, promoting the development of large-scale energy-saving industries, reducing the price of energy-saving products, and rapid Promote the popularization of energy-saving products and promote the progress of energy-saving technologies.

Improve standards and strengthen supervision mechanisms

Today, the logo of the "Energy Star" has penetrated into many fields and is the root of American consumers' household reputation. The Ministry of Energy has also established the CALIPER mechanism to randomly sample LED lighting products from the market regularly and irregularly and make them public. Using this method to regulate market integrity to urge manufacturers to grasp quality, effectively promote the healthy development of LED lighting market.

All government departments shall take the national interests and the interests of the people as their priority, establish a streamlined and efficient competent department, organize social forces as soon as possible to formulate LED lighting product standards, establish statutory testing institutions, update detection methods and equipment, and formulate unified inspection standards for the industry (for reference). Energy Star "standards and certification system", and establish a supervision mechanism to maintain market norms (draw on the CALIPER mechanism). It is believed that under the leadership of the relevant government departments, through the joint efforts of social forces, the national LED lighting product standards and specifications that can be called out for a long time will surely come out. Only in this way can China's semiconductor lighting industry develop healthily.