Analysis of the Chinese Market for Building Energy Efficiency

Yu, Sha; Evans, Meredydd; Shi, Qian

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“…China has doubled its floor space from 1996 to 2011 due to tremendous economic growth. Consequently, energy consumption has increased by over 40 percent since 1990 from the buildings sector (Yu et al 2014). Gradual policy improvement in mandatory building codes started in the 1980s and has been a driving force behind energy efficiency measurement being introduced and becoming more stringent.…”

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“…With its national Three Star Rating System, the China Central Government encourages building construction to design, build, and operate beyond the mandatory code. In addition, the vast size of the country has necessitated a building code, and energy efficiency code specifically developed to respond to each climate's needs (Yu et al, 2014). The Three Star Rating System has also become the primary reference for local provinces and municipalities to measure building performance.…”

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“…The specifications followed with a new target for retrofitting buildings in the north area. Even so, the absence of a mandatory retrofitting code and further mandatory policies have been the most hampering factor in executing this policy (Yu et al, 2014). The literature does not give further details about the China Central Government's mechanism or the number of incentivizing retrofits for existing buildings.…”

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A Preliminary Framework for Expediting Energy Efficiency Retrofits (EERs) Using Alternative Financing in Indonesian Cities

Bramono¹,

Kim²,

Berawi³

2019

CSID-JID

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Existing buildings have a huge opportunity concerning energy and water savings potential in Indonesia. In Jakarta alone, it is estimated that least 90 percent of total buildings were built before 2014. The general perception of having a more energy-efficient existing building is associated with a higher upfront cost and how to finance it. To overcome these issues, incentives have been considered as one crucial pull factor to implement energy efficiency retrofits (EERs). To identify types of incentive that might work in Indonesia city context, it is essential to develop a framework that can be adopted nationally. This research aims to identify the key factors that can be integrated into the framework. To do that, an extensive electronic literature review, added with archival study and case studies analysis using Jakarta as a model for Indonesian cities in implementing green building code. A comprehensive analysis of favorable policy, existing building stock data, study on possible incentive mechanism and added with case studies are presented. From the analysis, it is concluded existing supporting policy, potential energy savings from existing building stock and local capacity are equally important factors. It is expected that these findings will be utilized as the critical factors for developing a framework on expediting EERs to be adopted in Indonesia cities, which is an important key to unlock the potential energy savings from existing building stock.

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A Preliminary Framework for Expediting Energy Efficiency Retrofits (EERs) Using Alternative Financing in Indonesian Cities

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Kim²,

Berawi³

2019

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“…There will also be continued technical support and financial incentives (including subsidies and green financial bonds) for retrofits of existing buildings that comply with increasingly stringent energy codes, especially in residential buildings in northern China and in public buildings nationwide (Yu, Evans, and Shi, 2015 (in 2012) have stated that central finance allocate special funds or rewards to support energy saving in existing residential buildings in different climate zones, such as the northern and southern regions. More specifically, subsidies in Shanghai that were first provided in 2013 will continue buildings in the peri-urban areas (e.g.…”

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Narratives of Low-Carbon Transitions

Hanger¹,

Lieu²,

Νίκας³

2019

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This book examines the uncertainties underlying various strategies for a lowcarbon future. Most prominently, such strategies relate to transitions in the energy sector, on both the supply and the demand side. At the same time they interact with other sectors, such as industrial production, transport, and building, and ultimately require new behaviour patterns at household and individual levels. Currently, much research is available on the effectiveness of these strategies but, in order to successfully implement comprehensive transition pathways, it is crucial not only to understand the benefits but also the risks. Filling this gap, this volume provides an interdisciplinary, conceptual framework to assess risks and uncertainties associated with low-carbon policies and applies this consistently across 11 country cases from around the world, illustrating alternative transition pathways in various contexts. The cases are presented as narratives, drawing on stakeholder-driven research efforts. They showcase diverse empirical evidence reflecting the complex challenges to and potential negative consequences of such pathways. Together, they enable the reader to draw valuable lessons on the risks and uncertainties associated with choosing the envisaged transition pathways, as well as ways to manage the implementation of these pathways and ultimately enable sustainable and lasting social and environmental effects. This book will be of great interest to students, scholars, and practitioners of environmental and energy policy, low-carbon transitions, renewable energy technologies, climate change action, and sustainability in general.

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“…To accelerate the process, cities are adapting by establishing regulations and mandatory standards, clear guidelines, policies, economic incentives, technical assistance, and incremental support to eliminate obstacles that hinder the implementation of low carbon buildings [98]. Mature cities such as Shanghai and Beijing have rolled out large-scale retrofit programs to achieve co-benefits of more efficient buildings [104]. Even though the initial costs of energy-efficient retrofit present a considerable impediment to deployment, robust financing mechanisms (e.g., subsidies, grants, and incentives) have been used to overcome these hurdles to unlock both the direct economic savings and the wide-ranging benefits [105].…”

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Sustainability of Low Carbon City Initiatives in China: A Comprehensive Literature Review

Hunter

Sagoe²,

Vettorato

et al. 2019

Sustainability

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Low carbon city (LCC) has emerged as the latest sustainable urbanism strategy in China as a response to climate change impacts. Yet, minimal scholarships have explored the sustainability of the urban planning model towards understanding the complexity of the components. Using a two-step triangulation approach, this paper presents a structured overview of the LCC initiative in China as it relates to the transition to a sustainability paradigm. The data collection approach includes a comprehensive review of 238 articles on LCC to identify and categorize LCC components. Furthermore, discourse and framing analysis was used to develop and synthesize a conceptual framework for assimilating the components into four core sustainable development principles: Integration, implementation, equity, and scalability and replicability. The results indicate that LCC development in China is bias towards economic and environmental technological innovations and strategies. Additionally, several critical sustainability issues of LCC pilots were identified. These include a lack of social equity planning concerns for the most vulnerable population, dearth of social reforms that cater to lifestyle and behavioral change, top-down planning and decision-making processes, a technocratic rationalization planning approach, inconsistent LCC targets on inter-generational justice concerns, absence of an effective national "sharing and learning" city-city network system, and several barriers to implementation. We conclude that the applied theoretical and conceptual inquiry into the field of LCC is pertinent to mitigate climate change and achieve sustainable urban development.Sustainability 2019, 11, 4342 2 of 37 consumption [14][15][16][17]. This increasing energy consumption and coal dependency of the urban energy system has increased greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, as China has become the world's largest energy consumer and carbon emitter [18,19]. A recent report by the National Bureau of Statistics [20] suggests that despite a decline in GHG emissions between 2013 and 2016, emissions grew by 2.3% in 2018 due to a surge in urban construction. Therefore, after three decades of rapid physical and socio-spatial modernization, the country is facing significant negative externalities [16]. Local environmental pollution [6,16,[21][22][23], ecological deterioration [24], and energy shortage [21,25] have created health risks [26], have affected people's quality of life [27], and resulted in substantial economic losses [28] in megacities such as Tianjin and Beijing [29]. Concomitantly, China's cities are vulnerable to climate change impacts [17,30], as some cities have inadequate seawall defenses in low-lying areas [5], and are therefore exposed to flooding and extreme rainstorms [23]. In addition to this, some experience droughts from reduced precipitation, which can be attributed to low urban institutional capacity that creates limitations in climate governance and planning [31]. These complex and intractable problems have heralded a call for action, t...

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Analysis of the Chinese Market for Building Energy Efficiency

Cited by 11 publications

References 12 publications

A Preliminary Framework for Expediting Energy Efficiency Retrofits (EERs) Using Alternative Financing in Indonesian Cities

A Preliminary Framework for Expediting Energy Efficiency Retrofits (EERs) Using Alternative Financing in Indonesian Cities

Narratives of Low-Carbon Transitions

Sustainability of Low Carbon City Initiatives in China: A Comprehensive Literature Review

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