Energy Efficiency
Efficient Lighting in Dominican Republic

Scaling up the use of energy efficient lighting in the Dominican Republic

Period
2018
Country
Dominican Republic
Partners
UNEP
Funder
CTCN

CONTEXT

The technologies or lamps currently used in the Dominican Republic include incandescent, compact fluorescent, fluorescent tube, mercury vapor, metal halide and high-pressure sodium. These technologies are highly inefficient compared to more modern and efficient Light Emitting Diode technologies (LED). Currently LED lighting only accounts for 3 percent of the residential market and 36 percent of the non-residential market in the Dominican Republic.

According to initial estimates, the total investment required to replace all old, inefficient lamps with efficient LED technology is approximately USD 143 million (entire potential market). The average return on investment to replace an inefficient lamp with an LED is approximately 20 months.

The impacts of replacing these lamps include energy savings of approximately 456,441 MWh per year and reduction of greenhouse gases of approximately 304,446 tCO2 per year, along with numerous other co-benefits, including higher quality lighting, and less polluting technologies.
In summary, the efficient lighting program through LED technology has the potential to deliver significant climate change mitigation befits, while also being profitable.

GCF PROPOSAL

The overall objective of this project was to develop a strong Green Climate Fund (GCF) efficient lighting programme for the Dominican Republic. The purpose of this program was the progressive replacement of the more than 18 million inefficient light bulbs in the Dominican Republic. The initial sectors on which the efficient lighting program would focus would be i). the residential sector, ii). the commercial and industrial sector and iii). the public sector (public buildings).

BASE developed a strong financial model and strategy that can scale up the use of efficient lighting in Dominican Republic, including an estimation of the programmes expected impact, such as tCO2eq reduced or avoided, and an expected volume of finance to be leveraged (economic and financial rate of return), with robust evidence for these estimates.

Contact persons
Daniel Magallón
Managing Director
Experience in: Latin America, Africa, Asia, Europe
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