LED Distribution

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

This was stated by Shri Piyush Goyal, Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coal & New and Renewable Energy in a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha today.  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	214.10

The Minister further stated that 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 CO₂ emissions are the expected savings from the DELP programme on completion., the Minister added.

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