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1.3: Building Sector
• Best Practice examples – Building Code
– CROSQ: is currently preparing a regional Building standard based on ICC
standards. CROSQ is collaborating with the Council of Caribbean Engineering
Organisations (CCEO), the Association of Commonwealth Societies of Architects
of the Caribbean (ACSAC), the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management
Agency (CDEMA) and the University of the West Indies (UWI) in order to
facilitate the development of the Regional Building Standard under this project
– Jamaica is developing a New Building Code based international codes developed
by the International Code Council tailored to suit Jamaican conditions. This
building code will be compulsory for residential and commercial buildings . It will
address energy used for: AC, Lighting, Appliances, Insulation, Solar and thermal
gains...
→ expected energy savings of 30% for office buildings
– Barbados: a National Building Code promoting energy efficiency and energy
conservation is under preparation. It should become mandatory for all new
buildings
– And in St Lucia?
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Best Practice examples – Building certification schemes
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• Best Practice examples – Building certification schemes
– Hotel sector:
• Financial Reasons: Decrease in operating costs of the hotel
• Marketing reasons
• Comfort
• Cut in emissions and environmental footprint: Carbon emissions, Solid and liquid waste,
water
– Commercial sector: Energy label Scheme in Brazil
• The proposed building label will be a voluntary scheme for commercial and office
buildings. But is likely to become a compulsory regime after 5 years
• The labelling in Brazil will go further than the US or European building rating systems as
it will provide individual ratings for lighting, mechanical systems and the building shell.
• The Government expects to promote actively Energy Efficiency measures through the
display of the Energy performances of the new commercial buildings.
– Residential sector: compulsory energy rating of residential premises when sold
or rent all over Europe, to raise awareness amongst buildings’ users.
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1.3: Building Sector
• Best Practice examples : Barbados: Solar Water Heating programme: The success
Story
– about 50,000 SWH installed for a population of 273,000
– The 2nd highest SWH penetration in the world – 40%
– The SWH are produced locally, creating jobs opportunity in the ‘Green Sector’
– This success was possible as the Government implemented the right policy and the good
incentives at the right time. The private sector was highly involved in the implementation of
the programme
– Waiver of taxes on raw materials to manufacturers
– Maintenance of high taxes on electric heaters (60%) to improve SWH competitiveness
– Allowing a 100% tax rebate on income taxes to households purchasing a SWH (up to $3,500)
– Retrofitting into the hotel industry: a $10million fund was created to assist the hotel industry
to “greenify” their operations and hotels borrowing from the Barbados National Bank are
required to carry out energy audits, often suggesting the installation of SWH
– Payback period in Barbados ≈ 2.5 years
– Benefits to economy of approximately US$ 10 million / year (avoided fossil fuel costs of
producing 128GWh of electricity)
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1.5: Labelling
• Other good practice actions in the energy performance / efficiency labelling sector:
– SVG: awareness campaign designed for the civil society on appliances
– Barbados: proposed to introduce a mandatory energy efficiency labelling for all appliances
– Belize: proposed to establish technical specifications for imported goods using an
international labelling system
– Dominica is proposing to set incentives and standards to encourage appliances imported to
import only EE products and label them in an appropriate way
– Anguilla is about to introduce labels to identify EE appliances. And verify the labels through
a suggested regional standard agency, such as CROSQ
– Bermuda is as well considering introducing minimum energy efficiency standards for
lighting, appliances, AC...
– And in St Lucia, what about:
• Playing a more active role within CROSQ to set energy efficiency standards?
• Reinforcing Bureau of Standards capacity to allow the agency setting its own performance
requirements and verify the efficiency of products entering the island?
• Training the appliances retailers on EE and its related financial savings?
• If unable to create its own or a regional labelling scheme why not adopting an international one such
as Energy Star, or the EU Energy Label?
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• Labelling Best Practice: Energy Efficient Label – PROCEL in Brazil
– The label was introduced in 1993, it aims to distinguish the most efficient
products among those labelled for a given year
– The labelling scheme has 2 goals:
• Guide the consumer to purchase the most efficient appliance
• Stimulate the national manufacturers to produce more efficient products
– Covers refrigerator, freezers, AC, SWH, light bulbs, motors, electric
showers, washing machines, boilers, TVs, light vehicles, screens... It will
cover wind turbines, microwave ovens, heat pumps...
– It started as a voluntary programme but should become mandatory in 2011.
– The industry associations have been involved in the project
– All equipments should have minimum energy efficiency indexes
– It labels active and standby modes
– The TV labelling was estimated to save: 540GWh/year, peak power
shaving of 135MW
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