LED A-line lamps more than tripled their sales over the past year, posting numbers that show it’s a breakout technology and being embraced by the market. Meanwhile CFLs dropped by more than half. NEMA said in its latest lamp index that LED A-line shipments surged 226.7% during 2015Q4 on a year-over-year basis. Meanwhile, halogen A-line lamps posted a year-over-year increase of 8.7 percent, and incandescent A-line lamps increased by 7.8 percent while compact fluorescents lamps (CFL) dropped 56.0 percent. Compared to 2015Q3, LED shipments rose 18.4 percent, halogen A-lines increased 0.8 percent, and CFL shipments saw a quarter-to-quarter increase of 6.5 percent. In contrast, incandescent A-line lamp shipments decreased 16.7 percent on a quarter-over-quarter basis.
Halogen A-line lamps accounted for almost half of all consumer lamp shipments in 2015Q4, at 49.7 percent, followed by CFLs with a share of 23.4 percent and incandescent A-lines at 7.8 percent. LED A-line lamps increased their sales share by three percentage points between (time period) and the end of 2015, and now comprise 17.1 percent of the consumer lamp market.
In just five years, the mix of technologies in this category has shifted darmatically. Where in 2011 A-line shipments were thoroughly dominated by incandescent and CFL, today LED and halogen technologies hold two-thirds of the market.
NEMA: LED A-Line Lamp Shipments Posted Another Strong Quarter to Close 2015