Lighting accounts for nearly 30% of total energy consumption, and GaN-driven LED lighting is the key to reducing carbon emissions

As global electricity demand continues to rise, governments around the world are more rigorously reviewing energy efficiency and promoting more sustainable practices to reduce overall energy consumption. Among them, lighting accounts for about 20% to 30% of the overall energy consumption. Faced with the power shortage crisis, LED lighting has become one of the key players in implementing energy conservation and carbon reduction.

According to estimates from TrendForce, the LED lighting market size will reach US$78.36 billion in 2026. Paul Wiener, vice president of strategic marketing at GaN Systems, believes that LED drivers designed based on GaN power transistors can improve energy efficiency, allowing LEDs to consume less energy at the same brightness, significantly saving energy costs without requiring huge initial investment costs; the reduced size and weight will simplify the installation of LED lighting systems and make the application fields more diverse.

In addition, lighting solutions designed based on GaN can provide the same lamp size and light distribution as existing products, maintain the same lighting atmosphere, and provide convenience when retrofitting existing lighting systems.

At present, the product design advantages of GaN power semiconductors have been recognized by the LED lighting industry. Philips uses GaN solutions in the TrueForce Core LED Road series products to improve energy efficiency, reduce energy consumption by up to 60%, extend lamp life to 25,000 hours, while maintaining a low initial investment cost and shortening the payback period to 14 months.

Another case is LUNGO's 80W LED corn light bulb. Based on the design of GaN power transistors, the size can be reduced to one-tenth of the traditional silicon-based design light bulb without affecting the overall reliability and life of the product.

In addition, LED bulbs designed based on GaN are also accelerating in application fields such as road lighting, public lighting, warehouses, parking lots and store lighting, making distinctions in energy efficiency and brightness, achieving brighter but less energy-consuming lighting, and reducing operation and maintenance costs.

Therefore, LED bulbs designed based on GaN will be the core of future lighting, accelerating the development of sustainable and energy-saving lighting technology.