Hebei Province Introduces New Rules for LED Lighting

Recently, Hebei Province issued the “Regulations on Urban Lighting Management in Hebei Province”.

The “Regulations” stated that the urban lighting facility pipelines should be planned into the ground, and the existing lighting overhead lines should be gradually transformed into the ground according to the plan. Any unit that prohibits the use of multi-light sources and no light control devices for high energy consumption and low efficiency lamps in urban functional lighting is strictly prohibited. It is forbidden to have excessive energy consumption, such as over-illumination and light pollution in urban landscape lighting. This regulation will come into effect on August 1, 2012, and is valid for five years.

Urban lighting refers to the functional lighting of urban roads, bridges, tunnels, plazas, residential areas, lakes, rivers, parks, public green spaces, historical sites, and other buildings (buildings) in town planning areas where the cities and counties are located. And landscape lighting. The "Regulations" make it clear that urban lighting should follow the principle of people-oriented, economical, energy-saving and environmental friendly, and beautify the environment, and strictly control the energy consumption of public facilities and decorative landscape lighting of large buildings. Newly-built or rebuilt urban road projects shall be equipped with functional lighting in accordance with the national and provincial regulations on urban lighting standards, and the installed lighting rate shall reach 100%. Urban lighting facilities that are matched with urban roads, residential areas, and important buildings (structures) shall be constructed in accordance with the urban lighting plan, and shall be designed, approved, constructed, accepted, and used in synchronization with the main project.

Energy conservation has a separate chapter in the "Regulations". The regulations support the research of urban lighting science and technology, promote the use of energy-saving, environmentally friendly lighting technologies and new products, carry out green lighting pilot demonstration activities, and improve the science and technology level of urban lighting. And pointed out that the urban lighting energy-saving methods should be used, such as time, partition, grading lighting; urban sub-main roads, street lanes under the premise of meeting the light distribution requirements, with semiconductor (LED) as the light source of street lamps, lighting system efficiency Should not be less than 90lm/W and so on. The "Regulations" encourages the use of renewable energy sources and lighting systems in accordance with natural conditions and in accordance with local conditions, in areas where access to power sources, such as arterial roads, suburban junctions, and scenic spots on urban roads is difficult. The city lighting authority shall formulate urban lighting energy-saving plans and energy-saving technical measures based on urban lighting planning, give priority to the development and construction of functional lighting, strictly control the scope of landscape lighting, brightness and energy density, and according to the relevant national and provincial regulations, eliminate time Inefficient lighting products.

Finally, according to the “Regulations”, the lighting ratio of main road lighting in urban roads should reach 98%, the lighting ratio of secondary roads and branch roads should reach 96%, and the road lighting facilities should have an intactness rate of 95%. The goodness rate should reach 90%. The general failure of urban lighting facilities shall be eliminated within 24 hours. Except for the reasons of force majeure, serious faults shall be excluded within 3 working days; if sudden emergency failures, major safety hazards or extreme bad weather occur, they shall be effective within 1 hour. Disposal measures shall be taken to prevent secondary accidents; in the normal maintenance of urban lighting facilities, functional lighting or landscape lighting shall not be turned on during the day for general maintenance of lighting facilities; the closing of functional lighting for more than 24 hours shall be announced to the public in advance through media and other means.