China Energy Outlook 2020 - Flipbook - Page 85
13th FYP, China further developed its green building policies to include a target that at least
50% of total new construction needs to be comprised of green buildings, with a goal of total
green building floor space of 2 billion m2 by the end of 2020. To achieve the target, China
recently revised its green building rating standards and updated the comprehensive
requirements for energy, water, and materials. China upgraded its green building “3-star”
standard in 2019 and launched its first green eco-district 3-star standard. It is estimated that by
the end of 2020, China will achieve over 50% green building penetration rate for new
construction, which outperforms the 13th FYP target.
Renewable Energy in Buildings
The 13th FYP increased the goal for renewable energy use in China’s buildings from 4% in
2015 to 6% 2020.
During the 12th FYP, China established renewable energy demonstrations in 46 cities, 100
counties, and 8 solar energy utilization provinces. In addition, 398 solar PV demonstration
buildings projects were built with total solar PV installation capacity of 683 MW. By the end of
2015, over 3 billion m2 of urban construction floor space was served by solar thermal hot water
systems and 500 million m2 of floor space was served by geothermal technologies. The overall
renewable energy replacement of commercial energy use reached 4% by the end of the 12th
FYP.
In the 13th FYP, China developed ambitious targets for renewable energy utilization in buildings.
The plan sets out targets to further increase the renewable energy utilization rate in total
building energy consumption from 4% in 2015 to 6% in 2020. Specific targets are (MOHURD
2017):
Add another 2 billion m2 urban construction floorspace with solar water heating
systems.
Develop 10 MW of distributed solar PV applications in buildings.
Add another 200 million m2 urban construction floorspace with geothermal
technologies.
Encourage use of air source heat pump systems and establish mechanisms for system
evaluation, defrost, low temperature operation, etc.
A set of technical standards for renewable energy technologies design, installation, and
operation will be revised during the 13th FYP.
Energy Efficiency Top-Runner Program – Public Sector
With the goal of having at least one Top-Runner per province per public building category,
the government has awarded 184 public institutions as public sector Energy Efficiency Top
Runners by 2018.
In 2017, the National Government Offices Administration (NGOA) along with NDRC and the
Ministry of Finance (MOF) announced that the program would: (1) create 1,500 demonstration
public institutions by 2018 (50% of the 13th FYP goal) and (2) select 200 Energy Efficiency TopRunners (NGOA, 2017a). In order to be awarded with the “Energy Conservation Demonstration
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