India’s experience in implementing strategic schemes to enhance appliance energy efficiency & futuristic integrated policy approaches to adopt most efficient technologies

Panel: 2. Policy: governance, design, implementation and evaluation challenges

This is a peer-reviewed paper.

Authors:
S. Sundaramoorthy , CLASP, India
Dr.Archana Walia, CLASP India, India

Abstract

Energy Efficiency (EE) in India has come to acquire a great deal of importance in the wake of the thrust that is being laid by the government to save its primary energy sources, combat climate change and provide 24x7 power to all. This paper reviews and analyses the strategic approaches of the government that led to ready access of efficient appliances to consumers and unlocked the potential for energy management at operational level.

On the one hand, existing national policies and energy saving models such as Appliance Standards & Labelling program (S&L), Domestic Efficient Lighting Programme (DELP) helps to trigger and transforms energy efficient – cost friendly market as well as achieve energy savings. On the other hand, some intergovernmental programmes & efforts like Space Cooling Efficiency Enhancement and Demand Response, India AC Challenge etc, aimed at meeting the increasing energy demand, help in the identification of future technologies and the potential barriers and challenges in adopting such most efficient technologies.

This paper will discuss and analyse the success and learning from these energy saving models and policy approaches, and lay out the possible options to overcome the barriers, propose integrated policy approaches to adopt and implement the most efficient technologies and the potential impact on energy savings and global climate change.