Led business opportunity?

[hellohello123]

Just had a quick  discussion with  a contact and would appreciate  a few general feedback  on  business opportunity  in Thailand. 

Obviously  in brainstorm phase but I had a few questions 

 

-Do governments have incentive plans where they partially/fully fund for changing  halogens/fluoro into leds

 

- do governments  offer any form of plans to make the country energy efficient or are they too corrupt or have no spare resources  or have bigger priorities such as fixing roads

[impulse]

Bop on down to Chinatown in Bangkok and you'll see hundreds of vendors selling all things LED.  And there's others scattered all over Thailand.

 

The answers to your questions are pretty inconsequential unless your contact is a well connected Thai who can wiggle into those types of government incentives.  

 

The fact that you're asking whether those programs exist indicates that wasn't one of his discussion points.  If there were a snowballs chance in hell, that's one of the first things he would have brought up.

[mike324]

LED is the way to go, many newly built government agencies have adopt and change to led lights. A Thai company by the name of Forth makes and sell a wide range of electronic goods to the government. LED lighting is one of them.

 

To answer your questions, no the government has no plans to give incentives to change into leds bulbs

Government knows changing LED saves energy and what not, but its not a national plan, it also depends on the local district as they are the ones changing the bulbs and getting the allocated money.

 

So if you are trying to get a leg in the industry, you need contacts with people who are decision makers in the government, either on district level or higher up. Even if they did have a plan, you will still need contacts in the inside.

[hellohello123]

10 hours ago, mike324 said:

LED is the way to go, many newly built government agencies have adopt and change to led lights. A Thai company by the name of Forth makes and sell a wide range of electronic goods to the government. LED lighting is one of them.

 

To answer your questions, no the government has no plans to give incentives to change into leds bulbs

Government knows changing LED saves energy and what not, but its not a national plan, it also depends on the local district as they are the ones changing the bulbs and getting the allocated money.

 

So if you are trying to get a leg in the industry, you need contacts with people who are decision makers in the government, either on district level or higher up. Even if they did have a plan, you will still need contacts in the inside.

Thank you for  your informative  opinion. 

Exactly  what I needed even though it wasn't what I wanted to hear