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Public Institution” title, public institutions must meet a set of evaluation requirements covering
energy conservation targets, energy efficiency, water efficiency, energy management, use of PV
or solar thermal systems, and green procurement. Extra credit is given for additional actions
such as online energy use monitoring, geothermal utilization, innovation in energy
conservation, and utilization of non-traditional water resources (NGOA, 2017b). The Energy
Conservation Demonstration Public Institutions have to meet their energy-saving targets for the
most recent two years and achieve a total score of 85 points or higher on a 100-point scale.
In May 2018, NGOA announced that a total of 184 public institutions were awarded the public
sector Energy Efficiency Top-Runners designation (NGOA, 2018). Among the 184 institutions,
154 installed solar PV or solar thermal, 152 conducted energy audits, 142 were equipped with
charging stations for electric vehicles, 127 implemented energy-consumption monitoring
systems, 95 explored energy performance contracting, 28 utilized shallow ground geothermal
resources, and 24 developed energy management systems (NGOA, 2018). NGOA plans to
update the list of Top-Runners every two years (NGOA, 2017a). In 2019, NGOA announced
plans to create 1,400 Energy Conservation Demonstration Public Institutions by 2020 and to
select 200 Energy Efficiency Top-Runners (NGOA, 2019).
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A few cities and local governments in China are implementing building energy benchmarking
and disclosure policies to improve building energy performance and reduce associated CO2
emissions.
One of the measures that cities and local governments in China are undertaking is toimplement
building benchmarking and disclosure policies. For example, Shanghai announced an Energy
Consumption Monitoring Platform for administrative office buildings and large public buildings
in March 2014 (SCTA, 2014) to support Shanghai’s overall goal of retrofitting no less than 10
million square meters (m2) of public buildings from 2015 to 2020 (Shanghai Housing and UrbanRural Development Management Commission, 2016). Under this mandatory policy, a city-level
building energy performance monitoring platform was implemented to collect, analyze, and
monitor building energy use in government office and large public buildings. In addition to
energy performance monitoring and analysis, the platform provides comprehensive evaluation
of energy usage, benchmarking analysis, and target-setting functions.
The Shanghai Academy of Building Research is required to conduct energy benchmarking
analysis to compare similar buildings and provide energy-use characteristics and average values
for each type of building (NRDC, 2017). The energy performance monitoring platform provides
opportunities for benchmarking horizontally (across different buildings in the same type) and
vertically (self-comparison over-time). Thus, energy-saving potentials of different types of
buildings can be identified, and scientific evidence can be provided for developing energysaving policies and technologies in the buildings sector.
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These are also referred to as benchmarking and transparency policies.
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