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UJALA (Unnat Jyoti by Affordable LEDs for All)

India's national LED-bulb distribution scheme, run by the state-owned Energy Efficiency Services Limited since 2015, uses a demand-aggregation price-crash model that drove the price of a bulb down from over Rs 300 to under Rs 40. It is billed by its own operator as the world's largest zero-subsidy domestic lighting programme.

India (national)LED bulb and streetlight distributionNone (government scheme, operator-documented)
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OperatorEnergy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL), with Convergence Energy Services Ltd and contracted supplier Syska LED
EcosystemLED bulb and streetlight distribution
StandardNone (government scheme, operator-documented)
StatusActive
LocationIndia (national)
Overview

Inside the project

EESL reports 368.7 million LED bulbs distributed, saving 47,883 million kWh of electricity and 3.87 crore tonnes of CO2 annually.

368.7M
LED bulbs distributed
47,883M kWh/yr
Energy saved
9,586 MW
Avoided peak demand
13,400,000
LED streetlights installed

Objectives

  • Promote energy efficiency in Indian households through LED distribution
  • Reduce the retail price of LED bulbs through demand aggregation

Approach

  • A demand-aggregation, price-crash model uses economies of scale to reduce LED bulb costs, distributed nationwide alongside streetlight replacement.

Sources

Inspect 1 source
  1. ibef.org ↗https://www.ibef.org/government-schemes/ujala-yojna

Documented by one public source so far.

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