Residential Labeling Program
The challenge in terms of soaring energy consumption in the housing segment is needed to be tackled with a multi-faceted approach. Making houses energy efficient is certainly a way of avoiding a long-term futile electricity consumption liability in residential buildings. This program helps the country in the same direction by designing an energy efficient residential labeling system.
Ministry of Power has already launched EcoNiwas Samhita 2018 on 14th December 2018, which prescribed the minimum energy performance through energy efficient envelop design. The proposed labeling program takes forward EcoNiwas Samhita 2018 and motivates consumers to move forward to design more efficient construction. Energy labels help consumers to make efficient decisions through the provision of direct, reliable and costless information.
Objective of the labeling program
Scope of the program
Proposed Labeling program will cover all types of residential buildings in India. All the envisaged objectives can be achieved through the proposed labeling mechanism by making it as a mandatory information required in any real estate transaction/ leasing.
Benefits of the program
The proposed labeling program is expected to save a large amount of energy through imparting energy efficiency to houses nationwide. The estimated energy saving potential through proposed labeling program is around 388 BU by year 2030 which is greater than the energy consumption in 2016 (250 BU).
In conjunction to this, the program also brings up various ancillary benefits which are following:
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