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The economic case to stimulate LED lighting in India

The economic case to stimulate LED lighting in India Expert committee report by Ministry of Power on Economics of LED lighting in India. Identifies major barriers to LEDs penetration and details the road map to be taken up at policy & action levels to accelerate it.
This paper looks at the policy option of using a bundled Multi-State Demand Side Management Programme (MSDP) to significantly enhance demand for energy efficient lighting devices, in particular LED, with appropriate policy instruments to enable domestic manufacturing of the devices. This option would target at overcoming the barriers to market penetration of energy efficient equipment. See Also Report: Life cycle assessment of illuminants www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/node/293118 Report: Mission on enhanced energy efficiency www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/node/284120 Report: Phase out of incandescent lamps www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/node/303474 Report: Energy efficiency based on CFLs www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/node/302891 Report: Demand-side activities for efficient lighting www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/node/266117 Feature: White organic LEDs with fluorescent tube efficiency www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/node/274767 Feature: No one