Implementation strategies for achieving energy-efficient buildings in ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations)
The purpose of this paper is to address a few key policies for achieving significant building energy conservation in developing countries. The paper highlights important needs to be met in developing strategies to implement the policies. The ASEAN region provides the setting, with its rapid economic growth and hot, humid climate. Within the region, industrialization and urbanization processes are creating a growing demand for energy, particularly oil and electricity. Annual consumption of commercial energy has increased at a rate of over 5 percent in most countries and electricity growth has been above 10 percent per annum. Despite their economic growth, ASEAN countries face severe economic stringencies and difficult resource and budgetary constraints. Energy expenditures and investments constitute a major share of total national budgetary and investment expenditures--generally close to 25 percent. Energy conservation in buildings is important to the national economies of the region. In the developing countries, including ASEAN, energy conservation has had a lower priority than in the industrial countries. Moreover, energy conservation in buildings has been neglected in the national conservation plans that have been developed. This oversight is significant, for commercial buildings now consume well over one-third of all electricity in the ASEAN region, and will account for approximately 40 percent of the demand for additional electrical generating capacity in the near future. 25 refs.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC03-76SF00098
- OSTI ID:
- 6372926
- Report Number(s):
- LBL-24134; CONF-8710456-1; ON: DE89009307
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Workshop on energy conservation policy and measures for energy demand management, Bangkok, Thailand, 12 Oct 1987; Other Information: Portions of this document are illegible in microfiche products
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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