Building Energy Efficiency in India: Compliance Evaluation of Energy Conservation Building Code

Technical Report · Wed Mar 26 04:00:00 EDT 2014

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1128633· OSTI ID:1128633

Yu, Sha ^[1]; Evans, Meredydd ^[1]; Delgado, Alison ^[1]

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1. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)

India is experiencing unprecedented construction boom. The country doubled its floorspace between 2001 and 2005 and is expected to add 35 billion m² of new buildings by 2050. Buildings account for 35% of total final energy consumption in India today, and building energy use is growing at 8% annually. Studies have shown that carbon policies will have little effect on reducing building energy demand. Chaturvedi et al. predicted that, if there is no specific sectoral policies to curb building energy use, final energy demand of the Indian building sector will grow over five times by the end of this century, driven by rapid income and population growth. The growing energy demand in buildings is accompanied by a transition from traditional biomass to commercial fuels, particularly an increase in electricity use. This also leads to a rapid increase in carbon emissions and aggravates power shortage in India. Growth in building energy use poses challenges to the Indian government.

• Research Organization: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-76RL01830
• OSTI ID: 1128633
• Report Number(s): PNNL--23217; PG0500000
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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