1 : ENERGY CONSERVATION BUILDING CODE (ECBC)

Energy Conservation Building Code (ECBC) was launched by Ministry of Power, Government of India in May 2007, as a first step towards promoting energy efficiency in the building sector. The Ministry of Power, Govt. of India is implementing ECBC in the States of India in consultation with the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) (Govt. of India, Ministry of Power). The ECBC was developed under the guidelines of BEE with significant inputs from various other stakeholders such as practicing architects, consultants, educational institutions and other government organizations. The purpose of ECBC is to provide minimum requirements for energy efficient design and construction of buildings and their systems without compromising on the comfort of the occupants.

New Construction

The Energy Conservation Building Code (ECBC) was developed by the Govt. of India for new commercial buildings on 27th May 2007. ECBC sets minimum energy standards for commercial buildings having a connected load of 100kW or contract demand of 120 KVA and above. While the Central Government has powers under the EC Act 2001, the state governments have the flexibility to modify the code to suit local or regional needs and notify them. Presently, the code is in the last stage of notification.

Existing Buildings

In existing building we could save upto 30 percent of electricity by applying ecbc code. For this we could do retrofitting in the existing building and can make building close to ECBC compliant building.

• Building envelope, including thermal performance requirements for walls, roofs, and windows
• Lighting system, including day lighting, lamps and luminaries’ performance requirements
• HVAC system, including energy performance of air distribution systems
• Electrical system
• Water heating and pumping systems, including requirements for solar hot-water systems.

First ECBC cell of India was established in UPSDA to facilitate the drafting of ECBC code, awareness about ECBC and also make some demo projects to showcase how an ECBC compliant building is constructed and its contribution in energy saving.

In Uttar Pradesh construction of Uttar Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission (UPERC) office as a model building based on ECBC provision, has been completed and its detailed information including building material used and financial detail is as follows

Whether your building can be a ECBC compliant-building?

For those who want to know whether your building can be an ECBC compliant building can fill in the form attached in annexure-A giving few basic details of the building and email us.

For those who are interested to build their building as per ECBC norms thus making it an ECBC-compliant building can fill in detail application form attached in annexure-B and email us.

For those who are interested to build their existing building as per ECBC norms by retrofitting, thus making it an ECBC-compliant building can also fill the form.

In order to promote ECBC compliant/Energy Efficient building in Uttar Pradesh consultation is provided free of cost.

2 : Agriculture DSM

The objective of the program is to create appropriate framework for market based interventions in the agriculture pumping sector and carried out pump-set efficiency upgrdation projects through Public Private Partnership (PPP) mode.

At the outset of XII five year plan, the objective is to reduce the energy intensity of agriculture pumping sector by carrying out efficiency up gradation of agricultural pump. The approach for meeting the targets would be to build up the process of acceleration of sustainable energy efficiency in the XII plan through; widespread replication through regulatory mechanism which will be coupled with the financial support provided by the GoI for bridging the EEPS pump sets higher cost, capacity building of all stakeholders, few demonstration projects in rural drinking water pumping systems and strategic approach for dissemination of results.

3 : Municipal DSM

The Municipality Demand Side Management (Mu-DSM) scheme of BEE was initiated during XI plan. BEE has identified the immense energy saving potential in municipal sector. The basic objective of the project was to improve the overall energy efficiency of the ULBs, which could lead to substantial savings in the electricity consumption, thereby resulting in cost reduction/savings for the ULBs.

4 : Perform Achieve & Trade Scheme (PAT)

The PAT Scheme is being implemented in three phases:

• The first phase runs from 2012-2015 covering 478 facilities from eight energy-intensive sectors, namely Aluminum, Cement, Chor-alkali, Fertilizer, Iron and steel, Pulp and Paper, Textiles and thermal power plants.
• The second phase runs from 2015-2018 covering 621 facilities from eleven-intensive sectors, namely Aluminum, Cement, Chor-alkali, DISCOMs, Fertilizer, Iron and steel, Pulp and Paper, Railway, Refinery, Textiles and Thermal power plants.

For the State of Uttar Pradesh, 27 industries have been covered under the PAT Cycle-I in 07 sectors

• Aluminum : 01
• Cement: 02
• Chlor-Alkali: 01
• Fertilizers: 07
• Iron & Steel: 01
• Paper & Pulp: 03
• Thermal Power Plants: 12

Now, it’s increases from 27 to 47 industries under PAT Cycle-II in 11 sectors

• Aluminum : 01
• Cement : 03
• Chlor Alkali: 03
• DISCOM: 05
• Fertilizer : 08
• Iron & Steel : 01
• Pulp & Paper : 03
• Railway : 03
• Refinery : 01
• Textile : 01
• Thermal Power Plant : 18

PAT Cycle-I has been completed. Under PAT Cycle-II notification has been issued and new DCs have been identified.

6 : Energy Saving Compaign (ENERGY CONSERVATION VIA SCHOOL CAMPAIGN)

Why this School Campaign Required

Being indispensable for the growth of our nation, the electricity has become the life line for the existence of human race. The existing infrastructure of power could not accomplish demand supply gap in today’s scenario. Since India is a growing nation and majority of our population is in younger age group, by focusing on this we shall be able to make huge impact in much shorter time.

AIM

To reduce demand of energy in the state of Uttar Pradesh by motivating & incentivizing Schools, Students as well as their parent/guardians with the active participation of school management through the analysis of monthly energy score cards. This will happen by adopting efficient energy conservation equipment and inculcate healthy energy usage behavior by practicing with those equipments.

Objectives

• To reduce demand of energy in the state of Uttar Pradesh.
• To motivate schools to adopt energy conservation equipment and practices.
• To educate children and in turn their parents/guardians on energy conservation.
• To inculcate healthy energy usage behaviour which is sustainable.
• To contribute to decrease in environmental pollution; like emission of green house gases by adopting healthy behavior.
• To generate awareness in general public and consumers of different categories through this project.

Result/Desired outcome

• Households well get added in this campaigns which will after support to increase avoided capacity.
• This will help the households and school management to reduce their electricity bills.
• Awareness generation and inculcating healthy behavior.
• Schools will be motivated to go for star rated building.