New Delhi: R.K. Singh, Union Minister of Power and New & Renewable Energy on Friday announced various initiatives being taken by the Government of India towards energy efficiency in the building sector, as part of ‘Azadi Ka Amrut Mahotsav’.
While inaugurating “Aiming for Sustainable Habitat: New Initiatives in Building Energy Efficiency 2021” which was virtually launched on Friday by Bureau of Energy Efficiency, the Minister reiterated his commitment to ensure continuous efforts to enhance energy efficiency in the economy, especially in the building sector.
He congratulated BEE for organizing the launch event and suggested all officials to continue to strive to remove all barriers in implementing Energy Efficiency in the Building sector, creating energy efficient demand and energy efficient designs.
Addressing the gathering, R.K. Singh said that the building sector is the second largest consumer of electricity after industry, but it is expected to become the largest energy consuming sector by 2030. Realizing its importance, the Government of India is focusing on improving energy efficiency across residential as well as commercial building establishments.
Speaking at the event Raj Kumar Singh, Cabinet Minister of Power & New Renewable Energy said that these initiatives will help enhance the energy-efficiency levels in residential buildings across the country, thereby leading to sustainable habitation. With future-driven initiatives like smart home ecosystems, optimizing energy-efficiency in any given structure will surely be the need in the coming years.
Alok Kumar, Secretary, Ministry of Power highlighted that all these initiatives will go a long way to make India more energy-efficient, and it will be a replicable model across the globe.
The initiatives included:
* Specifying code compliance approaches and minimum energy performance requirements for building services, and verification framework with Eco Niwas Samhita 2021.
* The web-based platform ‘The Handbook of Replicable Designs for Energy Efficient Residential Buildings’ as a learning tool, which can be used to create a pool of ready-to-use resources
of replicable designs to construct energy-efficient homes in India.
* Creating an Online Directory of Building Materials that would envisage the process of establishing Standards for energy efficient building materials.
* Announcement of NEERMAN Awards, (National Energy Efficiency Roadmap for Movement towards Affordable & Natural Habitat), with the goal of encouraging exceptionally efficient building designs complying with BEE’s Energy Conservation Building Codes.
* Online Star Rating tool for Energy Efficient Homes created to improve energy-efficiency and reduce energy consumption in individual homes. It provides performance analysis to help professionals decide the best options to pick for energy-efficiency of their homes.
* Training of over 15,000 Architects, Engineers and Government officials on Energy Conservation Building Code (ECBC) 2017 and Eco Niwas Samhita (ENS) 2021).
