Seoul, Korea’s capital, is planning on investing more resources in LED lighting retrofit projects for the benefit of public areas and to spurn Korea’s public sector to install light-emitting diodes in their facilities and establishments.
Seoul Metropolitan Government recently announced its plans to replace the conventional lights found in public areas such as city government offices, streets and major roads, and subway stations with LED lighting before the end of 2018.
According to an article published in the Korea Herald, one of the country’s major newspapers, the capital is looking to increase the usage of LED lighting in both public areas and commercial/private properties to reduce the city’s total energy consumption and encourage growth in the green lighting sector. Korea’s LED lighting industry is still held back largely by consumer reticence on the benefits of LEDs as well as their hefty price tag.
The Seoul city government adds that it is seriously planning to expand the retrofitting project to the private sector by 2030. By 2014, the government expects to install more than 800,000 light-emitting diodes in the public sector alone. By 2014, the government estimates that the private sector will install more than 7 million LED lights, providing a total savings of 1100 gigawatts or US$105 million in energy costs a year.
Seoul city government is also looking to develop a smart lighting grid by the end of 2014. The grid will be comprised of close to a million and a half energy-efficient streetlights.
It may seem ambitious, but Seoul certainly has the capability to complete such a huge-scale project. Having one of the strongest electronics industries in the world, Korea has the capability when it comes to both R&D and finance to pull off this type of project.
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