17.90 Crore LED bulbs distributed across the Country: Piyush Goyal

Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coal, New & Renewable Energy and Mines, Piyush Goyal in Lok Sabha on Thursday said “Achieving efficient implementation of the Unnat Jyoti by Affordable LEDs for All (UJALA) Scheme, the aggregation of demand and bulk procurement by Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL) has resulted in huge savings for the consumers across the country.”

The Minister informed that the e-procurement of LED bulbs through a transparent and competitive bidding process has resulted in reduction of approximately 88% in procurement prices of LED bulbs from Rs.310 in February, 2014 to Rs.38 in August 2016, the retail price being reduced from Rs.550 to Rs.65, which is passed on to the consumers.

 Goyal also stated that as on October this year, 17.90 Crore LED bulbs have been distributed to households across the country, which resulted in avoided capacity generation of 4,656 MW and a saving of 23.25 billion KWh per year.

PM Narendra Modi launched the National LED programme on January, 2015, which is being implemented by EESL, a joint venture company of Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) under Ministry of Power.

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EESL aggregates demand across the country and procures LED bulbs for further distribution to domestic consumers at lower rates compared to retail market. Goyal informed about the programme and said that EESL has developed an innovative business model in which the entire investment in these programmes is made by it and is paid back over a time from energy savings. This precludes need for any government funding for this programme. There is no element of subsidy in the scheme.

The Minister also said  UJALA Scheme covers Urban as well as backward, rural, semi-urban and remote areas.EESL has initiated nationwide implementation of the programme to replace 77 crore incandescent bulbs with LED bulbs by March, 2019. This will result in an estimated avoided capacity generation of 20,000 MW and save 100 billion KWh per year. As of now there is no proposal to revamp the funding and execution pattern of ‘LED distribution scheme’.

The details of State/UT-wise Street lights replaced and quantum and value of energy conserved under UJALA scheme, as on 25.11.2016:- 

S.No.	States & UTs	No. of LED bulbs Distributed	Energy saved per year (in Million Units)	Estimated savings per year in Rupees(Crores)
1	Jammu & Kashmir	3,426,861	445.5	178.2
2	Punjab	57,679	7.5	3.0
3	Haryana	7,476,754	972.0	388.8
4	Uttarakhand	3,378,952	439.3	175.7
5	Himachal Pradesh	6,766,201	879.6	351.8
6	Delhi	7,476,754	972.0	388.8
7	Uttar Pradesh	11,134,639	1447.5	579.0
8	Rajasthan	11,880,209	1544.4	617.8
9	Gujarat	27,382,053	3559.7	1,423.9
10	Madhya Pradesh	8,808,846	1145.2	458.1
11	Bihar	7,528,176	978.7	391.5
12	Sikkim	1,397	0.2	0.1
13	Maharashtra	20,010,593	2601.4	1,040.6
14	Jharkhand	7,530,467	979.0	391.6
15	Chhattisgarh	5,698,225	740.8	296.3
16	Odisha	7,260,892	943.9	377.6
17	Nagaland	58,238	7.6	3.0
18	Assam	439,000	57.1	22.8
19	Meghalaya	50,799	6.6	2.6
20	Mizoram	9,752	1.3	0.5
21	Andhra Pradesh	19,025,756	2473.3	989.3
22	West Bengal	340,853	44.3	17.7
23	Telangana	560,485	72.9	29.1
24	Goa	720,582	93.7	37.5
25	Karnataka	13,522,393	1757.9	703.2
26	Tamil Nadu	61,018	7.9	3.2
27	Kerala	7,750,299	1007.5	403.0
28	Daman & Diu	95,010	12.4	4.9
29	Dadra & Nagar Haveli	81,177	10.6	4.2
30	Lakshadweep	100,000	13.0	5.2
31	Andaman & Nicobar Island	400,000	52.0	20.8
32	Puducherry	609,251	79.2	31.7
	Total	179,643,311	23353.6	9,341.5

The details of State/UT-wise Street lights replaced and quantum and value of energy conserved under SLNP scheme, as on 25.11.2016: – 

S.No.	States & UTs	No. of Street Lights replaced	Energy saved per year (in MUs)	Saving per year in Rupees (Crores)
1	Andhra Pradesh	557,760	70.863	28.345
2	Bihar	150	0.019	0.008
3	Delhi	216,678	27.529	11.012
4	Himachal Pradesh	3,957	0.503	0.201
5	Kerala	9,657	1.227	0.491
6	Maharashtra	12,722	1.616	0.646
7	Puducherry	300	0.038	0.015
8	Rajasthan	533,754	67.813	27.125
9	Telangana	2,671	0.339	0.136
10	Tripura	36,789	4.674	1.870
11	Uttar Pradesh	30,823	3.916	1.566
12	Assam	4,498	0.571	0.228
13	Gujarat	12,989	1.650	0.660
14	Jharkhand	2,800	0.356	0.142
15	Madhya Pradesh	3,789	0.481	0.192
16	Punjab	2,812	0.357	0.143
17	West Bengal	300	0.038	0.015
18	Jammu & Kashmir	500	0.064	0.026
19	Uttarakhand	500	0.064	0.026
20	Goa	400	0.051	0.020
	Total	1,433,849	182.169	72.868