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Analysis and proposal of implementation effects of heat metering and energy efficiency retrofit of existing residential buildings in northern heating areas of China in “the 11th Five-Year Plan” period

Bao, Lingling; Zhao, Jing; Zhu, Neng - In: Energy Policy 45 (2012) C, pp. 521-528

In China, northern heating region contains approximately 6.5billionm2 residential building areas accounting for 15% of the total residential living areas of urban and rural. About 70% of the urban residential buildings in north China are high energy consumption buildings. The task of heat...

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Success factors of energy performance contracting (EPC) for sustainable building energy efficiency retrofit (BEER) of hotel buildings in China

Xu, Pengpeng; Chan, Edwin Hon-Wan; Qian, Queena Kun - In: Energy Policy 39 (2011) 11, pp. 7389-7398

not been successful in building energy efficiency retrofit projects. This research aims to develop a set of critical … improvement in China. Energy performance contracting (EPC) is considered a win−win mechanism to organize building energy … efficiency retrofit (BEER) project. However, EPC mechanism has been introduced into China relatively recently and many EPCs have …

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