Enigin Update - China Needs to Improve Energy Efficiency in Public Buildings
MANY provinces in China are already suffering from inconsistent power supply, with the China Daily claiming that this shows the urgent need for improved energy efficiency in public buildings.
The power system failings, even before the peak season, is a concern for China, who need their public buildings to meet the energy-saving targets set in the 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-2015).
China’s Ministry of Housing of Construction and the Ministry of Finance together released a document forbidding the construction of energy-hungry buildings while also explaining the State’s policy of promoting energy efficiency upgrades.
China has set a target to reduce the energy use of public buildings by 10 percent per unit area in most buildings and by 15 percent in the largest buildings by 2015.
The China Daily also reveals that, the average power consumption in the country's public buildings is three times of that in similar buildings in developed countries.
What is worrying Chinese authorities is that 95 percent of public buildings constructed over recent years still consume more energy than should be required, and this despite the release in 2005 of the central government’s energy consuming standards.
The energy efficiency upgrading of existing public buildings is regarded as more important than toughening up new construction guidelines, as current building stock is so power hungry.
The joint document reveals that China’s government is to launch energy efficiency upgrading projects across key cities, targeting large public buildings, allocating subsidies in support for such works.
China is also poised to establish an energy-saving trading market, leading to trading by those public building users who save more energy than their quota requires, meaning they will be able to “sell” any excess energy saving to other public buildings, whose power consumption is higher than their set target.
China’s central government has come to realise that issuing orders to local governments are not enough to achieve energy efficient targets. The market mechanism of trading excess energy savings should drive managers and owners to upgrade the energy efficiency in their buildings and to implement effective energy management.
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Picture of Lama Temple, Beijing, China by DPerstin
