About 75% of the buildings expected to exist in India in 2030 have not been built. In this context, India offers a huge opportunity to avoid carbon lock-in associated with new buildings. To encourage and improve the new building stock’s energy performance in India, we work with organizations such as The Energy and Resource Institute (TERI) and CEPT University to adapt building policy Best Practices to India's economic and demographic context.
Regional Overview
By 2050, India will have seen an unprecedented floor area escalation of almost 400%. This growth combined with improving levels of comfort is expected to have a very dramatic impact on energy consumption.
To maximize energy savings, it will be essential to focus on constructing new energy efficient buildings. The largest growth is expected to occur in the residential building floor space between now and 2050, but energy efficiency in new residential buildings is still to be regulated.
To contain the energy use and enhance CO2 savings of all new buildings in India, it is fundamental to develop ambitious building energy efficiency regulations and policy packages aiming at limiting the energy consumption for new buildings.
Our activities in India
We see a huge potential for energy savings and CO2 mitigation in the Indian building sector, and a massive lock-in risk. At current rates of code adoption, building energy demand in India will increase by five times that of 2005 levels by 2050 representing a lock-in of about 1.2 Gt of CO2 emissions. If no actions are taken the residential building stock will increase its energy use by around 800% and CO2 emissions by 840% compared to the baseline year of 2005. Currently there is very little coverage of the residential sector by India’s ECBC.
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