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The next several years are critical for
achieving lasting results in China's relatively new
energy efficiency program for public institutions. Public
institutions in China are defined as those government
agencies, public service units, and organizations that
either fully or partially receive government budget funds.
In the study team's opinion, key challenges for
China's public institution energy conservation program
for the medium-term might best be summarized to include the
following four: (i) completing program institutional
infrastructure, (ii) making further inroads in the huge task
of completing energy use data collection and diagnostic
analysis in China's many public entities, (iii) further
improving incentives and generating greater enthusiasm among
public entities for action, and (iv) expanding financing
options for public entities, especially using energy
performance contracting (EPC). Plans already exist to
address the first two challenges and emphasis should be
placed on quality of implementation. Efforts dealing with
the third and fourth challenges, improving incentives and
expanding use of energy performance contracting, also are
parts of China's current agenda. Meeting these two
challenges in particular will require creativity and
development of new approaches. Consultation of international
experience in these two areas may be particularly helpful,
and this receives special focus in this report.
