scholarly journals Application and risk assessment of the energy performance contracting model in energy conservation of public buildings

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hongyan Li
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Energy Conservation ◽  
Energy Saving ◽  
Energy Savings ◽  
Energy Performance ◽  
Public Buildings ◽  
Performance Contracting ◽  
The One ◽  
Contracting Model ◽  
Energy Performance Contracting

Abstract With the development of China’s economy, the total area of public buildings is continuously increasing, and higher energy consumption in this field is gradually becoming prominent. In order to improve this situation, China has been working on energy savings in public buildings since 2007. Energy-saving models and energy policies have become the lifeline of sustainable energy development. Furthermore, the energy-saving renovation of public buildings, as a key project, has attracted the attention of governments and scholars. In the report of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, energy conservation and emission reduction were given a prominent place. The 13th Five-Year Plan (2016–2020) aims to further promote China’s energy conservation work. On the one hand, administrative and legal measures should be taken to strengthen energy conservation. On the other hand, it is necessary to speed up the establishment of a long-term market-based energy-saving mechanism and to rely on market forces to remove various obstacles to energy conservation. Energy performance contracting (EPC) is a practical and effective method applied in energy conservation. Therefore, this research aims to put forward a relatively perfect energy-saving risk management system for EPC public building projects based on analysis of the factors influencing investment risks of energy-saving projects and the use of quantifiable risk management models, thus providing some theoretical support for the risk decision-making of energy service companies.

scholarly journals A Bibliometric Analysis of Energy Performance Contracting Research from 2008 to 2018

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (13) ◽  
pp. 3548 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenjie Zhang ◽  
Hongping Yuan
Keyword(s):  
Energy Saving ◽  
Energy Savings ◽  
Energy Performance ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research Gaps ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Performance Contracting ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Residential Sector ◽  
Energy Performance Contracting

Increasing research interests in energy performance contracting (EPC) has resulted in a large number of publications over the past decade. However, very limited attempts have been made to map the global research in this area. To identify the state of the field and trends in EPC research, the VOSviewer software package was used to conduct a series of content analyses and examine global patterns among publications, including the distribution of core authors and institutions, high-frequency categories and keywords, journal and author contributions, highly cited papers, etc. Based on a systematical and deeply qualitative analysis on the 127 identified papers, five mainstream research topics in EPC were summarized, covering implementations of EPC, mechanisms for effective EPC projects, stakeholder behaviors and decisions in EPC projects, energy service company (ESCO) in EPC projects, and risk management in EPC. In addition, six main research gaps in EPC were identified, including lack of effective measurement and verification of energy savings, limited studies on EPC projects in the residential sector, ineffective mechanisms to ensure post-EPC energy-saving, limited research on the dual relationships among EPC project stakeholders, how to improve the energy users’ (EU) attitudes/cognitions toward ESCO/EPC, and lack of effective mechanisms to prevent risks in EPC projects. Furthermore, based on the current EPC research topics and research gaps in EPC, six potential research directions in EPC in future were also explored, which are how to develop effective methods for measuring and verifying energy efficiency?, EPC diffusion issues in the residential sector, effective mechanisms to ensure post-EPC energy-saving, effects of cooperative and competitive relationships between EU and ESCO on the performance of EPC projects, how to improve the EU’s attitudes/cognitions toward ESCO/EPC, and how to deal with risks in EPC projects. The outcomes would be useful for understanding the latest development of global EPC research and guiding future research in the subject.

Building Energy-Efficiency Running Mode of Large-Scale Public Building: Based on Energy Performance Contracting

2011 ◽  
Vol 368-373 ◽  
pp. 3663-3666
Author(s):  
Qi Song ◽  
Xiao Jie Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Energy Saving ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Building Energy ◽  
Energy Performance ◽  
Building Energy Efficiency ◽  
Public Building ◽  
Performance Contracting ◽  
Energy Performance Contracting ◽  
Running Mode

Energy performance contracting plays a key role in improving the building energy-efficiency in China. This paper introduces the current situation of energy-efficiency of large-scale public building in China and provides an overview of energy performance contracting, and then puts forward an innovative energy-efficiency running mode. This paper tries to offer theoretical references for the development of EMC in energy-saving field of large-scale public buildings.

A Survey on the Influential Factors in Energy Performance Contracting Process in China

2013 ◽  
Vol 357-360 ◽  
pp. 2768-2774
Author(s):  
Yan Qu ◽  
Chao Hui Quan ◽  
Jo Darkwa ◽  
David Chow
Keyword(s):  
Energy Saving ◽  
Energy Performance ◽  
Influential Factors ◽  
Performance Contracting ◽  
Service Companies ◽  
Project Complexity ◽  
Technological Level ◽  
Energy Service ◽  
Contracting Process ◽  
Energy Performance Contracting

Energy Performance Contracting is a new financial mechanism committed to the energy efficiency financing and an important bridge to communicate energy service companies and clients. The paper sums up 19 influential factors through the literature review and the process in Energy Performance Contracting. 9 factors that the policy, clients' appetite for risk, building energy consumption of clients, the costs of ESCOs, the technological level of ESCOs, the energy-saving result of projects, the proportion of energy-saving share, project supervision and project complexity are extracted which provides the important reference for designing the energy performance contract based on the questionnaire survey and empirical research.

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