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LEDvance, Garching, Germany, said it fulfilled one of its biggest government general lighting contracts in almost 100 years. The deal, a collaboration project with MLS Co. Ltd, one of the new owners of LEDvance, provided 25 million energy-efficient LED lamps to Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL), the Indian government agency in charge of executing India's UJALA (Unnat Jyoti by Affordable LEDs for All) initiative. LEDvance won the contract in a public tender in March 2017 and completed it in December 2017 in close collaboration with MLS, which was part of the consortium that acquired LEDvance from Osram GmbH in March 2017.
The UJALA initiative seeks to replace an estimated 770 million lamps, mostly incandescent, with energy-efficient LED lamps by 2019. The 25 million 9W lamps delivered by LEDvance are estimated to save energy equal to the annual output of a medium-sized, 300 MW coal-fired power plant.
“The successful conclusion of this massive project together with our partners from MLS is a great testimony of our two companies winning together,” said Erol Kirilmaz, chief sales and marketing officer at LEDvance. “At the same time, it shows us that it pays off, particularly in emerging markets like India, to have a regional set-up like ours: with a salesforce and sales-supporting functions who have strong ties to our customers on the ground and who can therefore respond swiftly to their demands.”