Final Report Lot 9: Public street lighting - Amper

Value Euro (000's)
1.500.000
1.450.000
1.400.000
1.350.000
1.300.000
1.250.000
1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004
Year
Figure 16: Value of lamp sales in EU-25 (Source: rescaled based on population from
original ELC data)
Comparison of the apparent consumption figures retrieved from Eurostat with the ELC sales
figures 26 gives a somewhat conflicting view (ANNEX K).
One must bear in mind that the figures from these two data sources can not be interpreted
straightforward for several reasons:
ELC sales figures do not include lamps for vehicles or lamps for projectors.
ELC sales of ‘metal halide lamps’ are reported in Prodcom as ‘Mercury vapour
discharge lamps’ (pers. Comm.. of Mr. B. Kenis from Philips on 04/08/2006)
Furthermore extra-EU-25 imports should be added to the ELC sales figures for a more
univocal comparison with the calculated “Apparent consumption” from Eurostat.
To get a more univocal comparison of the “Apparent consumption” with EU-25 ELC sales
figures, the sold volumes of metal halide lamps are added to the sold volumes of mercury lamps
reported by ELC. Furthermore the extra-EU imports (retrieved from Europroms) are added to
the ELC EU-25 sales figures to get a better indication of the “Actual consumption” in Europe.
Table 157 to Table 160 in ANNEX K present the calculations and results of the comparison of
“Apparent consumption” with “Actual consumption” for the different types of lamps used in
street lighting.
For linear and special product fluorescent lamps the apparent consumption almost equals the
EU-25 sales in 2003 and 2004, but for 2001 and 2002 the apparent consumption corresponds
better to the actual consumption figures. For compact fluorescent lamps the apparent
consumption seems to be rather consistent with the actual consumption (Percentage difference
ranging from -13% to -23%).
While for mercury lamps the relative difference between apparent and actual consumption in
2000-2004 ranges between 3,7-32,8%, the difference for sodium lamps is much more
26 Rescaled to EU-25 based on population
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