It's reported that Taiwan industry watchers estimated the on-going Beijing Olympic Games to give a big boost to the LED lighting industry from the huge number of LED lamps in conjunction with the energy-conservation tone lighting up magnificent games monuments, public utilities, main roads, and traffic lights in the Chinese capital city.
The Beijing authority uses the lamps to illuminate the stage of the games opening ceremony, in the flamboyant opening ceremony, 44,000 LED lamps lit the 147 meter x 36 meter screen on the ground that displayed an ancient scroll. At least 36,000 LED lamps light up the translucent exterior of the gigantic Water Cube at night. Besides these buildings, Beijing has built a gigantic LED screen measuring 30 meters x 200 meters. Opto Tech Corp. of Taiwan was contracted to supply LEDs to the screen. The Taiwan supplier has also been contracted by the Suzhou government to supply the lamps to its gigantic screen.
Harvatek Corp., another leading Taiwan LED maker, was contracted to supply a baseball stadium in the mainland with LED lamps. Ligitek Electronics Co., Ltd. won contracts to supply billboards in several scenic sites in the mainland with LED lamps while Formosa Epitaxy Inc. has landed contracts to supply expitaxy wafers to 20,000 LED roadway lights to be planted in Shanghai.
Beijing authority plans to exploit various green technologies including LED and solar energy to help it reach the goal of trimming 10% of electricity consumption nationwide by 2010.
