Steven Nadel and Yu Cong
November 1999
Abstract
Since 1996, the Chinese government has operated a major program—the China Green Lights Program—to promote more efficient lighting in China. To help evaluate this program, a series of surveys were implemented to better understand current practices and attitudes with regard to efficient lighting. Separate surveys were conducted of lighting wholesales and retailers, commercial and industrial lighting users, and residential lighting users. This report summarizes the results of these surveys.
These surveys found that the most efficient lighting products examined are familiar to and readily available to urban consumers. Use of efficient lighting products, particularly compact fluorescent lamps, energy-saving fluorescent tubes, electronic ballasts, and efficient high-intensity discharge lighting sources, is clearly growing. However, consumers have some concerns about product quality and prices. According to the survey, lighting dealers and commercial/industrial customers believe that the China Green Lights Program should get a significant amount of credit for the increase in the use of efficient lighting products. Still, even with the progress that has been made over the past several years, there is much work yet to do before efficient lighting products can reach even a majority of the Chinese lighting market.
32 pp., 1999, $13.00, I993
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