• Policy

        • United States

        • 2010

        Arkansas Energy Efficiency Obligation

        …year for measurement is 2013. The target for electric utilities is 0.90% of 2013 sales, and the target for natural gas utilities is 0.50% of 2013 sales. In 2018, the PSC adoped higher savings targets, raising the targets to 1.2% of baseline sales for electric utilities and 0.5% of baseline sales for natural gas utilities. Eligible energy efficiency measures include education, audits, heating systems, lighting, demand response, insulation, HVAC, and motors. Calculation of measures is based on deemed and metered savings. All programmes are subject to annual evaluation, measurement, and verification. Each utility employs a third…

        • Policy

        • United States

        • 2011

        Wisconsin Energy Efficiency Obligation

        …Wisconsin introduced an energy efficiency obligation for all sectors, covering electricity and gas. Obligated parties include electricity and natural gas utilities. The obligation seeks to achieve an energy savings per year of 1 063 GWh. The most recent Quadrennial Planning Process revised the energy efficiency goals for the 2015-2018 period. An October 2015 Order issued by the WPSC set the overall 4-year goal at 268,659,142 million British thermal units (MMBtu), the kilowatt-hour goal at 32,197,088,735, and the therm goal at 1,588,026,749. The current number of energy efficiency measures in…

        • Policy

        • Poland

        • 2018

        National Energy Efficiency Action Plan for Poland, 2017 (fourth)

        The National Energy Efficiency Action Plan contains a description of energy efficiency improvement measures by end-use energy sectors and calculations for final energy savings obtained in 2008-2015 and planned to be achieved in 2020.

        This document was prepared at the Ministry of Energy with involvement of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Construction and the Central Statistical Office.

        This is the last National Energy Efficiency Action Plan for Poland, the next report will be part of the National Energy and Climate Plan developed as part of the Energy Union governance regulation (2018/1999).

        The NEEAP 2017 contains also a…

        • Policy

        • Canada

        • 2006

        Energy Retrofit Assistance for Implementation Projects (ERA-I)

        The EnerGuide for Existing Buildings provides Energy Retrofit Assistance (ERA-I) funding for retrofit implementation projects, offering grants for costs related to management, materials, labour, monitoring and tracking, staff training, awareness and for other retrofit implementation projects in buildings. Measures for efficient lighting, the building envelope, motors, controls, heating, ventilating, air conditioning and other energy-saving projects may be eligible for grants. Grant beneficiaries can receive up to $7.50 per gigajoule (1 GJ = 277.8 equivalent kilowatt hours) of annual energy savings or up to 25 percent of eligible costs (whichever amount is less) to a maximum of…

        • Policy

        • Lithuania

        • 2020

        Energy Efficiency Measures - Private Legal Entities

        The Energy Efficiency Measures, Private Legal Entities policy is designed to incentivize implementation of energy efficient measures. Under the Climate Change Programme 2020, companies and businesses are invited to apply for energy efficiency measures under their energy audit report, which would grant them compensation from the government for the lighting, heating systems, technological process equipment. The total budget allocated for this policy is 13 million EUR. The maximum amount of compensatory allowance per applicant is 200 000 EUR, with the applicant's minimum energy savings at 10 MWh/year.   

        • Policy

        • India

        • 2001

        Energy Conservation Act

        …under EC Act.The Ministry of Power, through Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE), has initiated a number of energy efficiency initiatives in the areas of household lighting, commercial buildings, S&L of appliances, demand side management in the agricultural sector and municipalities, SME's and large industries including the initiation of the process for development of energy consumption norms for industrial sub sectors, capacity building of SDA's etc.The target of energy savings for these schemes during the XI plan period was set to 10,000 MW of avoided generation capacity. These initiatives have resulted in avoided capacity…

        • Policy

        • United States

        • 2012

        US “Apps for Energy” competition

        In 2012, as part of the US government’s efforts to promote energy savings, the US Department of Energy launched the first-ever “Apps for Energy” challenge. The programme offered USD 100 000 in cash prices to software developers that build applications for mobile phones and computers that use data provided by major utilities to help consumers consume less energy and save money. The competition stemmed from the government’s Green Button initiative, under which nine large electricity suppliers agreed to provide over 15 million households access to energy consumption data. The winners were evaluated by a multi stakeholder panel…

        • Policy

        • Italy

        • 2009

        Research for energy efficiency and renewable energy in urban areas

        The Ministry of Environment is using funding provided for the promotion and dissemination of interventions to improve efficiency and energy savings for electricity and heat from renewable sources, and in particular for the development of solar thermal, to fund research projects targeting energy efficiency and renewable energy in urban areas. A total of EUR 16.9 million is available. Funded projects are competitively selected, and various types of organisations can apply, including: Dedicated public research bodies; trade associations; local energy agencies; ESCOs; agencies, organizations or institutions responsible for communication, information and training on the environment; and public bodies.

        • Policy

        • Denmark

        • 2011

        Energy Strategy 2050

        …focuses on wind energy, expected to provide for 40% of total electricity needs, together with biomass and biogas. A solid district heating network, fed by renewable heat from biomass, will be the main motor of the energy transition in the heating sector.
        Full independence from fossil fuels will also be reached through a solid and long term energy efficiency policy aiming at reducing gross energy consumption by 6% from 2006 levels. Energy companies will be required to increase energy savings by 50% in 2013 and 75% by 2017 to 2020. Electric meters diffusion will participate in moniotring energy demand in…

        • Policy

        • Japan

        • 2007

        Energy Bank: Fund for Energy Efficiency and CO2 Reduction

        …2007 that they had jointly established Energy Bank, the first fund of its kind in Japan, to invest in the installation of facilities that help reduce CO2 emissions. Energy Bank has entered into an agreement with Osaka Gas Co. on the funds operation. The fund started operating on 1 August 2007, and is expected to finance the installation of JPY 15 billion (about USD 120 million) worth of energy-efficient facilities in its first three years. Energy Bank benefits from the expertise of its partners for investing in facilities that will contribute to energy savings and reduction of CO2 emissions…

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