LED Bulb Penetration 88% in India

Energy efficiency in Indian households has touched 88 per cent with LED bulbs lighting up homes due to affordable government schemes, while more than 75 per cent of air-conditioner users and 60 per cent of refrigerator customers are using star-labelled products, a study said on Wednesday. However, only 25 per cent of Indian households are aware of the Bureau of Energy Efficiencys star labelling programme, it said. The study by not-for-profit the Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW) also found that 77 per cent of grid users are satisfied with their electricity services. The study is based on findings from the India Residential Energy Survey (IRES) 2020 conducted by CEEW in collaboration with the Initiative for Sustainable Energy Policy (ISEP) covering nearly 15,000 households across 152 districts in 21 states. It is the first-ever pan-India survey on the state of energy access, consumption and energy efficiency in Indian homes.The CEEW study also found that 97 per cent of Indian households were connected to the grid, with another 0.33 per cent exclusively relying on off-grid electricity sources such as solar home systems, solar mini-grids, and battery storage. An estimated 2.4 per cent of the households in the country remained unelectrified, it said.