LED light source price reduction is still the main driver1

With the continuous innovation and improvement of LED street lamp solutions, their penetration rate is further increasing. In the early stage of the introduction of LED street lamps to the market, the eastern economically developed regions and some provincial capital cities took the lead in using LED street lamps as demonstration projects, and the reason for restricting their further penetration into the central and western regions was that the price was too high. Since 2013, LED street lamps have dropped significantly. Some well-known domestic street lamp enterprises, such as qinshang Optoelectronics, Shanxi Guangyu, Spike, etc. also said that the price dropped by about 20 ~ compared with the first half of 2013. 30, of which the price of light source has dropped by a large margin. According to statistics, the price of LED street lamp export products in 2013 increased from 478 in January. $65 fell to 348 in December. $20. Light source price reduction is still the main driver it is understood that the cost of an LED street lamp is nothing more than a light source, lamp shell, power supply and other major parts, in addition to some labor costs, equipment depreciation, certification costs, etc. the light source accounts for 30 ~ of the cost. About 40, power supply accounts for 30, lamp shell and other expenses account for 20 ~ About 30. According to the first-line sales staff, the current price of LED street lamps below 100W can even be as low as 8 yuan per watt. however, the price of street lamps using big brands such as PhilipsLumileds and Cree is sold at 18 to 19 yuan per watt, while the unit lumen price of products higher than 100W is higher. Shi Jianmin, R & D manager of Shanxi Guangyu, said that in the future, the light source part will still be the main driver for the price reduction of LED street lamps. There are two main reasons. First, the price of the light source itself is reduced. Second, after the light efficiency of the light source is improved, the number of beads used is less, the power is lower, and the price can be reduced. In terms of power supply, although the unit price of the driving power supply will also decrease with the large-scale production, the introduction of intelligent control system will increase the added value of the driving power supply, so there is little room for the price of the power supply to decrease. Shi Jianmin said frankly. The reporter found in the quotations sent to the same company by maoshuo power supply, Mingwei power supply, Infineon and Zhongheng paiwei that the price of the same quantity and the same power is about 10. if it is allocated to the whole lamp, the gap is not obvious. Another reason for the fluctuation of the whole lamp price is that the demand of the owners varies greatly. Xiao Zhiyong, deputy director of sales of BYD's LED marketing department, said that it is difficult to give a quotation immediately. The owner's requirements for service life, light efficiency and light quality determine what kind of light source devices and power supply the enterprise chooses. This also restricts enterprises from realizing scale advantages to a certain extent. After the price is lowered, what is the profit of the company? Xiao Zhiyong said that at present, the domestic road lighting renovation project is still mainly in the wide road sections such as provincial roads, so there is a large demand for high-power street lamps over 100 W, accounting for of the total shipments. the profit margin of this part is also higher than that of products about 60 W, about 20. In the future, as the renovation project sinks to county-level units, the demand for street lamps of about 60W will gradually increase, and enterprises will regard this type of products as a new growth point.