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energy consumption of 5,000 tce or larger to have an energy management professional position
(Beijing Government, 2011).
Implementation of the professional training pilots is conducted by the National Energy
Conservation Center (NECC), which is overseen by NDRC. NECC has developed training
curriculum and test requirements to be used in all pilots. After participating in training for more
than 80% of the training hours, candidates can take the energy management exam in the
thermal energy, electrical energy, or both categories. In Beijing, candidates who pass the
energy management exam in either of the categories for two consecutive years can receive the
Energy Management Professional Certificate, which is valid for three years (Beijing
Government, 2011).
Energy Efficiency Technology Promotion Catalogue
This program, in which China promotes energy-efficient technologies both domestically and
internationally through the publication of catalogues of selected technologies, is evolving to
include not only technology identification, but also support for adoption of these energyefficient technologies through demonstrations and other promotion techniques.
The Energy Efficiency Technology Promotion Catalogue is a key NDRC program. The China
Energy Conservation Association (CECA) is responsible for soliciting submission of technologies
while experts are invited to review and select technologies. The National Energy Conservation
Center (NECC) conducts the final review for NDRC by focusing on technical and market
potentials of the technologies. In the 13th Five-Year Plan, the program has started to look
beyond just publishing the catalogues by expanding support for adoption of the recommended
technologies. To accomplish this, NECC is now responsible for organizing meetings that bring
technology providers and users together to better understand market demands. With an
enhanced market understanding, every two years NECC assembles technology experts to
identify 15 desirable technologies from several hundreds of recommended technologies for the
Catalogue. NECC then aggressively promotes these 15 selected technologies through
developing application case studies, offering customized services, and organizing
demonstration events. In addition, NECC has established a “National Energy Conservation
Technologies Promotion and Demonstration Base” in suburban Beijing to host and exhibit all
chosen technologies.
China joined the International Partnership for Energy Efficiency Cooperation (IPEEC) in 2008
and is one of the leading members (along with Australia) of the “Top Ten Energy Efficiency Best
Practices and Best Available Technologies (TOP TENs)” Task Group, with other participating
members from Canada, France, Japan, South Korea, and the U.S. The goal of the task group is to
showcase best available energy efficiency technologies (BATs) and best practices (BPs) in use by
business in participating countries (IPEEC, 2018). In 2015, the first lists of international TOP
TENs from Australia, China, France, Japan, and the U.S. were published and the second lists
from China, France, Japan, and the U.S. were published in 2018 (NDRC, 2018d). The latest list
of TOP TENs from China includes ten BATs for industry and ten for the buildings sector, as well
as ten Best Practice and case studies for the industrial and buildings sectors (NDRC, 2018d).
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