Impact of energy efficient appliances and national policy on achieving energy saving in an office building
Student name: Ms Shefali Jain
Guide: Prof R L Sawhney
Year of completion: 2012
Host Organisation: Bureau of Energy Efficiency, Ministry of Power, Govt. of India
Supervisor (Host Organisation): Mr S. P. Garnaik
Abstract: Energy conservation and efficiency has been the focal point, not only for India but all across the
world because of the depletion in natural resources. The economic growth is happening all over
the world for which the demand for energy is also growing unexpectedly. This compels various
countries to bring in new technologies and government policies to ensure the energy efficiency in
various sectors of economy. Similarly India is also no exception. Ever since Energy
Conservation Act, 2001 came into force, there have been various policy initiatives from
government side. At the same time various technology interventions have also occurred in recent
past in many areas, therefore the specific energy consumption is showing downward trend in
many applications like appliances, industry, buildings etc.
If we look at our energy consumption, the lighting and air conditioning system are major areas
of energy consumption at various applications. Studies have shown that there has been lot of
potential of energy saving to the tune of 15-20% in these applications. This may be possible
through technology interventions and Supply Side Management (SSM) by regulated policies.
Keeping in view of this, analytical study has been taken through this project work to know the
impact of energy saving with respect to cost benefit. An attempt has been made in this study to
examine the impact of CO2 emission reduction by 2022 due to the technology and policy
initiatives.
It has been observed that initial cost of the efficient products in both lighting and air
conditioning is a major hurdle for market transformation. However, if we take total life cycle
costing, the scenario changes drastically. Even if the energy efficient products are costly, the
total operating cost (Initial cost + Energy cost) is very attractive.
Therefore, our challenge is:
i. To propagate more and more energy efficient products especially in lighting and air
conditioning systems.
ii. The initial cost should be less. This means there should be demand of energy efficient
products in the market so that cost will come down.
iii. Consumers should know about the availability of energy efficient products. Therefore, a
comprehensive consumer awareness program is required.
iv. National policies should be balanced so that both manufacturer and consumers are
benefitted.
This project is focused on a comparative analysis for lighting and Air Conditioning appliances
of a building. It was carried out with the following objectives:
i. To calculate amount of energy savings because of the use of energy efficient appliances
(for lighting and air conditioning) in specific official applications.
ii. To observe impact of use of energy efficient products in a defined life cycle.
iii. To investigate the cost benefit options by taking into consideration of a defined life period.
iv. To estimate the possible energy savings and CO2 emissions due to adoption of new
technology and intervention of government policies by 2022.
v. To study the futuristic government policies in appliances like SEEP (Super-Efficient
Equipment Program).
Keywords: Energy conservation, Energy efficiency, SEEP, CO2 emissions, technology
intervention, government policies
