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ECCJ / Text

India

Enforcement of the Energy Conservation Law

* Guidance, Instruction and Order concerning the Law compliance, especially compliance of the energy management Articles (including Standards for Judgment), for factories and buildings

September, 2006

Tsuzuru NUIBE
The Energy Conservation Center, Japan

Enforcement of the Energy Conservation Law (especially, view point of “Energy Management”) on factories and offices

All factories and offices are required to make efforts for implementing the energy conservation and its basis, i.e. the energy management. (the Law, Article 4)
All factories and offices are obliged to make efforts to improve the energy intensity by 1%/year in the medium-to-long term as a target. (the Law, Article 5; Standards for Judgment)
Concrete methods to implement the energy management are provided as Standards for Judgment. (guide-line <the Law, Article 5>).

(Detailed contents of the Standards for Judgment were announced in the Notification No.65 by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry dated March 29, 2006)

Methods to encourage factories and offices to implement the energy management :

Requirement to submit periodic reports (Type 1 and 2 Designated Energy Management Factories) and medium-to-long term plans (Type 1 Designated Energy Management Factories).
“Provisions of the Law” and “Nation-wide Factory Investigation” to be implemented by the government based on the law. <guidance, advice, recommendations, instructions, orders>
(“the government” means “Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry” and “Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transportation”, and other Ministries )
Information and public relations activities provided by the government (METI and its regional bureaus).
--- Symposiums on rational use of energy to be implemented by factories,
--- Symposiums on rational use of energy to be implemented by buildings,etc.
Information and public relations activities provided by the Energy Conservation Center, Japan.
(Seminars, workshops, training courses, presentations of excellent cases, periodical magazines, pamphlets, etc)

Nation-wide Factory Investigation by METI
for Type 1 Designated Energy Management Factories

After surveying how the factory is observing the basic part of the Standards for Judgment, it is decided whether instructions to be need or not according to the results of the assessment based on objective criteria.
If the rationalization of energy use is extremely poor, the factory is instructed to prepare, submit and implement the rationalization plans.

“Law system”, and “Judgment basis for Advice, Instruction and Order by METI ”

Standards for Judgment (Guide-line <The law, Article 5>) … To be applied to all factories and offices.
* If rationalization efforts based on the guide-line are not enough.

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