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Journal Article
Potentials for and Barriers to Building Energy Conservation
1990
Overview
The Peoples' Republic of China is distinct among developing countries in that it has significant heating loads over much of the country. Since almost half of the urban residential buildings are located in climates colder than Washington State, the demand for space heating will skyrocket if the current building boom continues. Space heating energy use is constrained by mandated coal allocations resulting in partially heated buildings with indoor temperatures much below design conditions. This underheating masks the energy savings obtained from energy-efficient boilers and building designs. Economic calculations comparing energy savings with increased construction costs are skewed by the unmet heating loads as well as by government-subsidized coal prices that are below actual costs. From the perspective of building owners and managers, building energy conservation is still economically attractive in the cold Northeast, where the cost of conserved coal is half that of the subsidized coal price, but is difficult to justify in terms of economic payback in Beijing or Shanghai.
