Efficient lighting products will continue?

Since June 1, the national energy-saving home appliance subsidy policy has ended. At present, the home appliance market is in a period of “zero subsidies”. In order to continue to stimulate sales of energy-saving products and encourage consumer energy-saving consumption, some companies have successively introduced subsidies for their products, and many local governments have also started to introduce corresponding policies, which has triggered a long-term mechanism for energy-saving products in China. A series of new conjectures.

Efficient lighting products subsidies will continue <br> <br> end home appliances along with subsidies, to promote efficient lighting policy seems to come to the crossroads. Is it continued to subsidize the promotion, or let go to the market? A few days ago, the reporter received a positive reply from the China Lighting Association: the promotion of efficient lighting products will continue. The relevant departments are currently formulating relevant policies.

Chen Yansheng, chairman of the China Lighting Association, said that since 2008, the implementation of the financial subsidies for the promotion of efficient lighting products has played a powerful role in promoting the development of the lighting industry. In the past five years, the lighting industry has cooperated with the implementation of national policies in a more standardized way and has not caused any negative impact. The successful bidders also completed their respective promotion tasks.

Chen Yansheng said that the product range of the policy promotion is still under development. The reporter reviewed the list of efficient lighting product promotion policies and found that the products that were incorporated into the policy have been constantly adjusted. In 2012, metal halide lamps and high-pressure sodium lamps withdrew from the scope of promotion of energy-saving subsidies. Only self-ballasted fluorescent lamps for general lighting, high-frequency dual-end fluorescent lamps for tricolor, and two types of high-efficiency lighting products for brackets continued to implement energy saving subsidies. The industry incentive policies for semiconductor lighting have also been introduced in succession. After the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” for the development of semiconductor lighting technology was released, in July 2012, the tendering for the financial subsidies for LED lighting products that the industry had been looking forward to was started.

At the same time, since the beginning of the promotion of energy-saving lamps, industry experts have questioned the environmental pollution that waste energy-saving lamps may cause. However, experts believe that after the elimination of incandescent lamps on October 1, 2016, the market will continue to be the main player of energy-saving lamps. Chen Yansheng explained that, on the one hand, semiconductor lighting technology still needs to be further improved. At the same time, the development of low-mercury and solid mercury technologies will make the amount of mercury injected into energy-saving lamps less and less, and recovery and disposal measures will gradually improve. The National Development and Reform Commission has repeatedly stated that it will focus on the promotion of high-quality, environmentally friendly and efficient lighting products using low-mercury and mercury-solid technologies and adopting cleaner production processes. It also encourages enterprises to clean their production, carry out pilot recycling of waste lamps, and establish waste lamp recycling. Processing mechanism.

It is understood that when tendering for the promotion project of high-efficiency lighting products in 2012, not only the mercury content was clearly defined, but also the proportion of used lamp recycling, presence of recycling equipment, and whether the company passed the clean production review were included in the bid. Claim.

In 2012, the key areas for the promotion of high-efficiency lighting products (self-ballasted fluorescent lamps for general lighting and double-end fluorescent lamps with three primary colors) were locked into small and medium-sized cities, rural areas, and underdeveloped regions. In principle, the ratio of promotion to rural and underdeveloped regions was not lower than 60%. Experts said that from the current stage, the use of incandescent lamps in small and medium-sized cities and rural markets is still very large, and the task of promoting energy-saving lamps is still heavy. From this perspective, there is a continuing need for energy-saving lamp promotion policies.

How expert opinion <br> <br> energy subsidies of which path to take?

In the energy-saving subsidy policy that has just ended, the average subsidy accounts for less than 10% of the total product price. Many people think that the amount of subsidies is too low, and the driving force for energy-saving products is limited. Experts in the industry believe that the formulation of government incentive policies may be based on consumers' willingness to consume energy.

At the beginning of the energy-saving subsidies in 2012, Zhao Zhonghua, the director of China's Top10 Energy Conservation Center in China, once proposed that energy-saving subsidies should be limited to subsidizing Level 1 energy efficiency products that use the latest energy-saving technologies, and should avoid subsidizing oversized models. At the same time, the subsidy amount will account for 20% to 30% of the sales price of the product. Obvious effect will be achieved. If the lifecycle cost comparison between energy-saving products and ordinary products is listed, it will be beneficial to the promotion of the product.

A few days ago, the International Electrical Standards Marking Cooperation Organization released the findings of the consumer feedback survey on China's energy-saving products that benefit people projects. The results show that more than 60% of consumers are willing to pay less than 10% for energy-saving products. According to reports, the survey was conducted in 10 large and medium-sized cities from November 2012 to May 2013. A total of 15,000 people participated in the survey, and only about 14% of consumers were reluctant to spend more on energy-saving products, but also Less than a quarter of consumers are willing to pay more than 10% for energy-saving products. The survey results also show that different demand conditions have different expectations for the amount of subsidies. In the just-needed situation, when the subsidy quota reaches 24.8% of the product price, consumers are very likely to purchase energy-saving appliances; in non-just-needed situations, when the subsidy quota reaches 31.3%, consumers are very likely to purchase. This shows that non-needing consumers need higher subsidies to incite their purchase intention. At the same time, the study found that the expectation value of subsidy quotas varies greatly among consumers in different cities and different incomes. Overall, the expectation value of subsidy from big cities is far lower than that of consumers in small cities.

Zeng Lei, head of the China International Standards Labeling and Cooperation Organization in China, believes that under the fixed total amount of subsidies, the scope of subsidies can be appropriately reduced, for example, the current scope can be reduced from subsidy level 1 and 2 energy efficiency products to only subsidy level 1 energy efficiency. Efficient and energy-saving products that are higher than Class 1 energy efficiency. By increasing the proportion of subsidies for the most efficient products, it can be close to or meet consumer expectations for subsidies, so as to truly achieve the purpose of inciting consumers to purchase energy efficient appliances through subsidies.

However, Ling Yue, Minister of Science and Technology of Beijing Energy Conservation and Environmental Protection Center put forward different views: Assume that energy-saving products are 20% more expensive than similar non-energy-saving products in the market, and after the state subsidizes 10%, the price difference after subsidy is only 10%, which is exactly satisfied The spread of energy-saving products that most consumers can accept is, in terms of national policy, the most suitable point for influencing consumer purchasing behavior.

It is understood that in developed countries, the government will generally introduce a variety of incentive policies to encourage corporate production and consumer enthusiasm. However, from the 1970s to the present, the energy-saving policies of developed countries in Europe and America are based on different stages of economic development in their countries. The evolution of energy-saving policies has been dominated by order-controlled policies and supplemented by financial incentive policies, and economic incentive policies are the main ones. There are three stages, namely, the stage of supplementing the information propaganda method, the market-based policy instrument, and the comprehensive use of multiple methods. Therefore, experts pointed out that China should learn from the successful experience of energy conservation promotion in Europe and the United States, combined with the current energy consumption situation in China, according to the stage characteristics of China's economic development, to determine the focus of energy policy development.