Steve Nadel, Jiang Lin, Yu Cong, Adam Hinge, and Lu Wenbin
December, 1999
Abstract
The China Green Lights Program aims to substantially increase use of efficient lighting technologies and practices in China. The program began in 1996 and has a short-term objective of increasing the stock of efficient lighting products by at least 300 million units by 2000. The program includes a variety of activities to increase the quantity and quality of efficient lighting products produced in China and to promote efficient products and practices to consumers. Surveys and other market data indicate that since the program began, use of efficient lighting products has increased significantly, product prices have dropped, and product quality (e.g., lamp life) has improved. As a result of these developments, the program is on track to substantially exceed its short-term objective. Surveys of lighting distributors and commercial, industrial, and residential consumers indicate that awareness of the China Green Lights Program is high in major Chinese cities and that these distributors and customers believe that the China Green Lights Program has contributed in a substantial way to the improvements discussed above. But despite these improvements, efficient lighting products currently penetrate only a minority of the Chinese lighting market, due in large part to continued product quality issues, limited awareness of efficient products and practices, and the higher initial cost of efficient products. To address these barriers, plans are being developed to continue the China Green Lights Program through at least 2004.
25 pp., 1999, $12.00, I991
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