and welcome to today’s webinar, which is hosted by the Clean Energy Solutions Center

in partnership with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Today’s webinar is

focused on the Large-scale Energy Efficiency in Indian Buildings: The Impact and Role

of the Energy Conservation Building Code.

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Today’s webinar agenda is centered around the presentations from our guest panelists

Elena Berger, Meredydd Evans and Sha Yu, Jyotirmay Mathur and Bhaskar Deol. These panelists have

been kind enough to join us to review the progress with ECBC implementation in India

and analyze the economic impacts of ECBC-compliant buildings.

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Now, I’d like to provide brief introductions for today’s panelists.

First up today is Dr. Elena Berger. Dr. Elena Berger is a Science and Technology Fellow

at the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, International

Program, currently managing the portfolio of projects in renewable and energy efficiency

in collaboration with India. Following Dr. Berger we will hear from Meredydd

Evans. Meredydd is an energy policy and finance expert with over 20 years of international

experience and has worked on energy efficiency and clean energy policies and projects in

numerous countries.

Presenting with Meredydd will be Sha Yu. Sha is a scientist at the Pacific Northwest National

Laboratory.

After Meredydd and Sha we will hear from Jyotirmay Mathur. Jyotirmay is a mechanical engineer,

with postgraduate degrees in energy from the Indian Institute of Technology, in New Delhi

(India) and the University of Essen (Germany)

Our final presenter today will be Bhaskar Deol. Bhaskar is an India representative with

NRDC’s India Team and is based in New Delhi.

And with those introductions I’d like to welcome Dr. Berger to the webinar. Dr. Berger?

>> ELENA BERGER: Thank you Emily for that introduction. So I'm waiting to see the presentation.

>> EMILY EVANS: And we're getting the slide up. Just give us one moment.

>> ELENA BERGER: Thank you very much and thank you for joining this webinar given by the

US Department of Energy and organized by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)

with the participation of the Malaviya Institute of Technology (MNIT) and the Natural Resources

Defense Council (NRDC). I thank you, our partners, at MNIT and NRDC for cooperating with us in

organizing this webinar. Next slide please.

I would also like to acknowledge our great partners who helped us disseminate information

about this webinar. Next slide please.

This webinar in our continuing work to support the adoption of building codes in India takes

place within the framework of our bilateral partnership between India and the United States

and in the recent meeting between Prime Minister Modi and President Obama the two leaders emphasized

the commitment of the two countries in advancing the partnership in energy and climate change.

Next slide please

The Partnership to Advance Clean Energy or PACE has three main components: PACE-D for

deployment, PACE-R for research and development, and PEACE for energy access. Building codes

belong to the deployment arm of PACE along with other energy efficiency activities, renewable

energy, clean fossil, and clean energy finance efforts. Next slide please

The Partnership to Advance Clean Energy or PACE takes place under the umbrella of the

Indo-US Energy Dialogue and its six working groups. The cooperation on renewable energy

and energy efficiency technology are managed under two working groups - Power & Energy

Efficiency and New Technology & Renewable Energy working groups. Next slide please

The Indo-US Collaboration for the adoption of ECBC is managed under the Power and Energy

Efficiency working group. Under this collaboration DOE and PNNL have been engaged with the government

of Rajasthan and MNIT since 2011 in two main efforts - Training and Institutional Support

and Incentives. We believe that these efforts are very important to advance the main barriers

that have presented the adoption of building codes in India.

On training, PNNL and MNIT have developed and delivered training workshops and stakeholder

meetings in Rajasthan and have developed set of training materials on ECBC 101. On institutional

support, PNNL and MNIT have developed an ECBC roadmap in collaboration with the government

of Rajasthan, and we have created an award to accelerate the adoption of the code by

stakeholders in the state. You will learn more from my colleagues from PNNL that do

provide in great detail and talk about these activities in Rajasthan.

More recently PNNL has collaborated with MNIT on two ECBC compliant pilot buildings at the

MNIT campus and details about this pilot will be presented by Dr. Jyotirmay Mathur from

MNIT during this webinar. Mr. Deol Bhaskar from NRDC will also provide case studies from

successes in the state of Andhra Pradesh and I thank you NRDC for being a great partner

all along in collaborating with us to disseminate the benefits of ECBC doing this webinar. I

hope you really enjoy the information that we are trying to convey during this session

and will be happy to answer questions at the end of this webinar. Thank you for your attention.

>> EMILY EVANS: Thank you Elena. I will now hand it off to Meredydd Evans and Sha Yu who

will talk to us about the ECBC implementation, progress, lessons learned and options. Meredydd

and Sha?

>> MEREDYDD EVANS: Hi, thank you. While the slides are loading...great, I see them right

there. I'd like to first say thank you for joining us and I'm looking forward to sharing

a few thoughts with you. Next slide please

So, on ECBC implementation today I'll describe a couple of themes. First off is an introduction

- why ECBC is important and what it is. I'll also talk about progress with implementation

and some lessons learned in Rajasthan. Sha Yu will then describe tools for implementation

and some takeaway points. Next slide

This slide you can see two figures that highlight the core reason for focusing on new buildings

in India. They show projections that our institute has done using integrative assessment modeling.

They present data on the likely growth in floor space in billion square meters, both

in commercial and residential space, from now through 2095 as well as the linked increase

in energy demand those buildings in a scenario where there are no specific building policies,

like building energy codes. You can see there is a likely tremendous growth in the amount

of floor space so by 2050 we are talking something like 35 billion square meters of new buildings.

Energy use in those buildings would increase substantially as well. That could put tremendous

pressure on India's power system as well as its overall energy systems and instead there

is an alternative to save energy and to reduce the energy impact of those buildings while

still maintaining comfort. Next slide please

So here you can see some analysis the business case for the ECBC. We show calculated savings

for ECBC compliant buildings versus typical buildings in different cities in India. The

savings are really impressive - 25-40% of the energy can be saved, depending on exactly

where the building is and whether it is a building that is used 24 hours a day or is

used during day time. Regardless, very impressive figures and what's more those savings are

cost effective. Next slide Which means that the savings themselves, the

reduction in energy consumption, can pay for itself, can pay for the investments themselves.

In addition, ECBC implementation can reduce CO2 emissions and it can accelerate deployment

of energy-efficient technologies. Next slide

So, what is ECBC? Just a quick overview. It was issued in 2007 by the Ministry of Power

and the Bureau of Energy Efficiency. It's mandatory in the states that have adopted

it for all new commercial buildings with connected load over 100kW, basically for all large new

commercial buildings. It's different from voluntary labels like LEED because it is mandatory

and it applies to all buildings in those jurisdictions. ECBC addresses building envelope - so the

walls, windows, etc., HVAC, lighting, electrical systems, hot water, and pumping. And it allows

for three different compliance approaches: A prescriptive approach with specific levels

of say insulation or specific types of windows allowed, a trade-off option with slightly

more flexibility, and a whole building performance approach that requires the use of sophisticated

building simulation software. So just to recap a couple of the differences between ECBC and

green building labels such as LEED or GRIHA, ECBC is mandatory and it covers presumably

all buildings in the jurisdictions that adopt it. ECBC covers only the energy provisions,

so not other energy issues, other non-energy issues like water. ECBC is not score based

but rather it's based on engineering principles. Next slide

Here is a little bit of information on the implications of ECBC for different stakeholder

groups. I know that the next speakers will talk a little bit more about this so I will

go over it quickly. For example, local governments or ULBs will need to add code requirements

if they have not already done so in order to make ECBC effective. They also need to

be involved in ECBC enforcement, for example, involving their party inspectors as one option.

Manufacturers will likely see an extended market for energy efficiency products and

materials. Real estate and construction companies will need to ensure code compliance during

building construction for new buildings. Developers, like architects or engineers, need to make

sure they integrate the code into their building design and that they document compliance for

code authorities. Next slide

So, today ECBC has been adopted by a range of states in India. You can see the Bureau

of Energy Efficiency lists the states and their status in terms of whether they have

issued formal notification to make it mandatory or they're in some other stage of the process.

The number of states is growing all the time and it is at that level that ECBC then becomes

mandatory. Next slide

Focusing on Rajasthan, a few of the milestones there with the ECBC implementation: In March

2011, the Rajasthan government adopted ECBC with minor additions. In September 2011, then

ECBC entered into force. Compliance became mandatory. Then in June 2012 another important

step was that ECBC incorporated into the local bylaws, which made it formally a part of the

process for approving buildings. Since 2011, DOE and PNNL have worked with the government

of Rajasthan and MNIT to support roll out of ECBC and build capacity among stakeholders.