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China Training Sessions on DSM and Energy Efficiency |
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RAP is involved in developing a series of nationwide training workshops aimed at helping China meet its energy efficiency and emissions reduction targets. The workshops are being funded and co-sponsored by RAP in collaboration with the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Energy Foundation, and with support from the China-US Energy Efficiency Alliance. The purpose of the workshops is to build capacity among the staff of provincial government agencies responsible for implementing demand-side management (DSM) and energy efficiency programs. The first training workshop, "Planning and Constructing an Efficiency Power Plant,” was held in Beijing in early June 2010 and drew about 70 attendees from a range of provinces. This workshop focused on using a portfolio approach to implementing efficiency power plants, or EPPs. (An EPP is a carefully selected portfolio of energy efficiency projects that provides a specified quantity of load reduction with a level of reliability similar to the output from a conventional power plant.) The workshop described in detail the end-to-end process, from portfolio planning, program design and selection, cost-effectiveness calculation, evaluation, measurement and verification (EM&V), to portfolio and program management practices. It is the first comprehensive training that has ever been done in China on the end-to-end process on how to plan and design an EPP using a portfolio approach. The workshop included both Chinese and international experts to share best practices from China and the United States and reinforce concepts presented through interactive discussions with the participants. The workshop also introduced the "EPP Calculator" a specially developed software application that enables the careful selection of energy efficiency projects for inclusion in an EPP. The EPP Calculator shows the logical progression of economic analysis that goes from a single energy efficiency measure at a single facility, to a group of measures at a facility, to a program of measures across several facilities, and finally to an EPP portfolio. It marks the first time an EPP calculator has been developed that specifically uses load shapes to build up an EPP. Copies of the presentations from the first workshop and of the EPP Calculator software will soon be available for download at: English version Mandarin version | ||
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