Lok Sabha Question No. 905 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2015-12-03
Subject: LED Distribution
Ministry: POWER
Asked by: SUMEDHANAND SARASWATI, OM BIRLA, MANOJ RAJORIA, PONGULETI SRINIVASA REDDY, ASADUDDIN OWAISI, SANTOSH AHLAWAT, VIJAY KUMAR S.R., T.G. VENKATESH BABU, A. ARUNMOZHITHEVAN

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF POWER

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.905 TO BE ANSWERED ON 03.12.2015

## LED DISTRIBUTION

905.   SHRI SUMEDHANAND SARSWATI:

SHRI OM BIRLA:

DR. MANOJ RAJORIA:

SHRI PONGULETI SRINIVASA REDDY:

SHRI ASADUDDIN OWAISI:

SHRIMATI SANTOSH AHLAWAT:

SHRI S.R. VIJAYAKUMAR:

SHRI VENKATESH BABU T.G.:

SHRI A. ARUNMOZHITHEVAN:

Will the Minister of POWER be pleased to state:

- (a) the details of States covered under the domestic Efficient Lighting Programme (ELP)  along  with  the  number  of  light  emitting  diode  (LED)  bulb  distributed  to  the customers;

- (b) whether any study has been conducted to assess the energy saved after the implementation of said Programme;

- (c) if so, the details thereof including the energy saved, State-wise;

- (d) whether the more States are proposed to be included in the said Programme, if so, the details thereof along with the fund required; and

- (e) the other steps taken/being taken by the Government  to curb  power consumption/carbon  emission  checking  target  laid  down  to  distribute  bulbs  under the aforesaid programme?

## A N S W E R

THE MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) FOR POWER, COAL AND NEW & RENEWABLE ENERGY

( SHRI  PIYUSH GOYAL )

(a) : The details of States covered under Domestic  Efficient Lighting Programme (DELP)  along  with number of LED bulbs distributed to the Consumers

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## till 27/11/2015 State-wise are as follows:-

| Sl. No   | State            | Number of bulbs distributed so far (as on 27.11.2015, 13:20 PM)   |
|----------|------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 1        | Himachal Pradesh | 27,87,308                                                         |
| 2        | Rajasthan        | 45,66,018                                                         |
| 3        | Andhra Pradesh   | 99,67,817                                                         |
| 4        | Telangana        | 20,000                                                            |
| 5        | Uttar Pradesh    | 46,57,271                                                         |
| 6        | Delhi            | 40,82,960                                                         |
| 7        | Puducherry       | 6,09,251                                                          |
| 8        | Chhattisgarh     | 1,24,504                                                          |
| 9        | Assam            | 37,000                                                            |
| 10       | Maharashtra      | 43,46,795                                                         |
| 11       | Madhya Pradesh   | 1,292                                                             |
|          | Total            | 3,12,00,216                                                       |

## (b) & (c) : An independent study has been conducted  by Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL), for 5 locations in Puducherry and Andhra Pradesh and the outcome is as follows:

| Region      |   Units saved annually per LED bulb distributed (kWh) |   Units saved annually for the overall project (million kWh) |
|-------------|-------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------|
| Puducherry  |                                                132.87 |                                                        80.95 |
| Anantapur   |                                                133.76 |                                                       150.06 |
| Guntur      |                                                133.98 |                                                       249.33 |
| Srikakulam  |                                                133.34 |                                                       142.04 |
| W. Godavari |                                                134.55 |                                                       214.1  |

- (d) & (e) : The  new  States  proposed  to  be  included  in  DELP  are  Uttarakhand, Jharkhand, Karnataka and West Bengal. 20,122 MW of avoided capacity addition and 84  mt.  of  CO 2   emissions  are  the  expected  savings  from  the  DELP  programme  on completion.

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