Analysis of high-power solar road and landscape lighting market

Solar energy is an inexhaustible source of energy. Although the sun's energy radiating into the Earth's atmosphere is only one-billionth of its total radiant energy (about 3.75 × 1026W), it is as high as 173,000 TW, which means that the sun's energy per second is equivalent to the earth. 5 million tons of coal. Solar energy is both primary energy and renewable energy. It is rich in resources and can be used free of charge without transportation and without any pollution to the environment. With the development of new technologies and new materials, the utilization level of solar energy by human beings is getting higher and higher, and the emerging solar energy industry has unlimited development prospects.

As an important part of the solar energy industry, the photovoltaic lighting industry has broad prospects for future development. Solar photovoltaic lighting technology is the comprehensive application of solar cell technology and LED technology. The photovoltaic lighting industry is the intersection of solar photovoltaic power industry and LED lighting industry. It mainly uses solar photovoltaic power to generate electricity and apply electric energy to LED lighting. A variety of different lighting applications have been created to achieve true “green lighting”.

2010 is regarded as the first year of LED lighting. According to the Industrial Economics and Trends Research Center (IEK) of the Taiwan Industrial Technology Research Institute, the global LED lighting market is about 2.85 billion US dollars in 2009. In 2010, the global LED lighting market is about the same size. The $4 billion, its main application is in the field of architectural lighting. With the promotion of national policies, the growth of the global economy, especially emerging markets, the expansion of LED capacity and the decline in product unit price, and the expansion of applications, the total LED lighting market in 2013 will reach US$13.7 billion. From 2008 to 2013, the annual compound growth rate of LED lighting market capacity is expected to reach 49%. By 2015, the global LED lighting market is expected to grow to 28.8 billion US dollars.

In 2010, solar photovoltaic lighting fixtures are estimated to account for about 25% of the entire LED lighting market. With the development of the market and the promotion of policies, by 2013, solar photovoltaic lighting fixtures are expected to account for more than 30% of the entire LED lighting market. It is over $4 billion in size.

At present, photovoltaic lighting technology has begun to be applied to outdoor lighting applications at home and abroad. Among them, road lighting and outdoor low-power landscape lighting are the most important market segments in the photovoltaic lighting industry, accounting for about 90% of the entire photovoltaic lighting market. Among them, the representative products of outdoor low-power landscape lighting are solar lawn lamps and small-power solar garden lights. At present, solar lawn lamps account for more than 50% of the solar photovoltaic lighting market. In 2010, the global market scale was about 538 million US dollars; with the promotion of photovoltaic lighting technology and the promotion of energy conservation and environmental protection policies, and the substitution effect of solar lawn lamps on traditional lawn lamps. It shows that solar lawn lamps will maintain an average annual growth rate of about 50% in the next few years. By 2013, the global market will reach 1.814 billion US dollars.