By Angelo Baggini / Published on Tue, 2008-10-21 00:00
Year: 2006
Policy Status: In force
To improve the energy efficiency of government institutions during the 11th Five-Year Period, China required several reforms of government operation:
- During reconstruction of government buildings - including heating, air-conditioning and lighting systems - 20 percent of the total construction area must meet the national building energy efficiency standard.
- Government procurement must promote high-efficiency products and publish their list.
- Government vehicle purchases must focus on low-oil-consuming vehicles.
With these mandates, the Chinese state aims to save energy by 10% per unit construction area and per capita by 2010, relative to the baseline year of 2002.
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By Angelo Baggini / Published on Wed, 2008-10-15 09:00
Year: 2006
Policy Status: In force
China's programme to reduce the energy consumption of its 1000 largest industrial consumers covers 1008 enterprises from the following sectors:
- energy production
- textile
- iron and steel
- chemical industry
- construction materials
- coal
- petroleum and petrochemical
- non-ferrous metal
- paper
In 2004, this group accounted for more than 33% of China's total energy demand and 47% of the total energy consumption of Chinese industry.
Five government agencies lead the Top-1000 programme:
The Department of Environment and Resources - NDRC is responsible for the promotion of energy conservation in China.
The National Bureau of Statistics has the role of collecting and managing statistical information of enterprises in China.
State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission manages major state owned enterprises in Chinamany of which figure in the Top 1000.
The Office of National Energy Leading Group and the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine are also involved.
Beyond the five central governmental agencies, provincial governments (provincial Development and Reform Commission or Economic and Trade Commission) will work data collection, monitoring and guiding on enterprises, etc.
Sector associations will play key roles in the creation of indicator and evaluation system. They will also play important roles in information collection and disclosure, training, and others.
An information system and website for the Top-1000 Programme will be established by the National Bureau of Statistics. This website will link with NDRC website and the websites of these enterprises. NBS will be responsible for the tracing, statistics and auditing of the energy utilization status of these enterprises.
On April of every year, NDRC and NBS will jointly release the energy utilization information of these enterprises, as well as the advanced levels of domestic and foreign enterprises of the last year.
The responsibilities of industry associations and energy conservation centers include:
- formulate and assist in the implementation of the indicator and evaluation system for industry energy utilization and conservation, and conduct evaluation of enterprise energy usage;
- collect information concerning the advanced levels of energy consumption of the domestic and western enterprises, and establish relevant database
- provide enterprises with information and technical assistance
- provide training for enterprises
Role of Top 1000 enterprises are:
- establish energy conservation organization, formulate energy efficiency goals
- establish energy use reporting system
- conduct energy auditing
- formulate energy conservation plan
- invest in energy efficiency improvements
- adopt energy conservation incentives, training
All participating enterprises are asked to formulate and implement energy conservation plans.
Clear targets for energy conservation should be established in the Plan. Energy conservation measures should be provided. Annual implementation plan should be involved.
The Plan must be reviewed by provincial DRC or ETC.
Governments at different levels should provide enterprise with economic incentives, including, for example a list of Energy Conservation Products to receive tax incentives.
These incentives will be applied combined with the current energy conservation plans and other measures.
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By Anne Rialhe / Published on Wed, 2007-10-03 16:23
By Anne Rialhe, AERE & Pascal Lenormand, Incub
Part 1 - Lighting & Human Life
This is the first article in a series of three in which we will focus on the relationship between lighting and human life. This topic is much broader than merely ‘ensuring vision’. After defining some important terms and measurement units, we will discuss how the quality of lighting interacts with and effects human behaviour.
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By Hans De Keulenaer / Published on Thu, 2007-05-31 17:10
How much electricity is used in European homes, offices, industry and transport? How fast is electricity use growing, and for what applications? How could we use electricity more efficiently?
A new report from the European Commission's Joint Research Centre attempts to answer these questions in 'Electricity Consumption and Efficiency Trends in the Enlarged European Union'.
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By Bruno De Wachter / Published on Wed, 2007-05-09 07:30
An initiative by Elsparefonden, the Danish Electricity Saving Trust
Elsparefonden has created an innovative and informative approach to promoting energy efficiency in Danish public sector institutions and private companies. Participating organisations can track, analyse, and compare their electricity consumption on a dedicated website. Electricity readings are transferred directly from the individual organisations’ electricity meters to the website databank.
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