Dubai will save as much as AED 400mn ($109mn) per year on its energy bills once it introduces Dubai Lamp energy efficient light bulbs.
That is according to Khalid Mohammed Sharif, Assistant Director General of Dubai Municipality for Environment, Health and Safety Sector who delivered the opening speech at the Dubai Lamp seminar, organized by the Applied Sustainability and Renewable Energy Department at Dubai Municipality.
The Dubai Plan 2030 aims to cut non-clean energy by 30 percent, equivalent to 1,000 MW per year and carbon emissions by 16 percent by 2021.
Dubai Municipality is currently training contractors and consultants on the need to use Dubai lamp in the next phase as the civic body intends to link it to building licenses and designs of buildings in the Emirate.
Technical and architectural studies on the contribution of Dubai lamp to saving energy within the framework of the sustainability approach are being carried out by Dubai Municipality.
Olaf Schott, a representative of Philips, the producer of the Dubai Lamp, spoke about the specifications of the lamp. He explained that it comes in three types: 1W, 2W and 3W. He added that Dubai Lamp will work with the same efficiency as regular bulbs, but it will reduce the consumption of energy according to the size available.
The environmentally friendly lamp is less expensive and more efficient than other lamps. Dubai Lamp is extremely durable with an average lifespan of up to 15 times longer than conventional lamps, Schott added.
The Dubai Lamp Initiative is the fruit of a research partnership between Philips Lighting and Dubai Municipality, which resulted in the development of the worlds first commercially available, 200 lumen per Watt LED lamp.
The plan is to replace 80 percent of traditional bulbs used in Dubai with the new energy efficient version. Dubai Municipality and Philips Lighting are preparing to supply two million Dubai Lamps for residential and professional use across the city in 2017, which could increase to 10 million by 2021.