The total electricity used in industrial, commercial, residential and public (including street lamps) lighting in Taiwan in 2013 has been estimated at 22 billion kWh, and if all lighting had used LEDs, the total power consumption could have been reduced by 45.9% to 11.9 billion kWh, equivalent to 24.3% of the 41.6 billion kWh generated by the three nuclear power plants in Taiwan in 2013, surveys by LEDinside and EnergyTrend, both under Taiwan-based TrendForce, have shown.
While luminous efficiency of LED lamps has reached over 100lm/W, it is impossible for LED lighting to completely replace other types of lighting in Taiwan in the near future, the reports said. In order to reduce the reliance on nuclear power generation, however, the Taiwan government has to make efforts to promote LED lighting to hike the penetration of LED lighting from 22% currently to a short-term goal of 50%. In addition, developing renewable energy, mainly PV, wind and geothermal power, is necessary.
