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Enigin News - Power to be Cut to Buildings Failing Energy Efficiency Code

INDIAN energy suppliers in the Orissa region will cut electricity supplies to buildings failing to conform to energy efficiency codes, according to officials quoted in the Times of India yesterday.

The Times reports that Surya Narayan Mishra, Engineer in chief (electricity) at the state designated agency (SDA), for implementing the Indian Energy Conservation Act-2001, said a workshop of all stakeholders, including power department officials and builders, will be held responsible to enforce the Orissa Energy Conservation Building Code (OECBC) 2011.

All buildings, with the exception of manufacturing industries, having a minimum connected load of 100 KW, or transformer capacity of 120 KVA, are required to comply with the OECBC.

"We are working out modalities for implementation of these statutory norms for energy efficiency since it is already notified," Mishra told the Times.

Building owners and developers need to apply to the SDA, then implement the guidelines to minimise a buildings power consumption as a precondition to receiving a power supply. The code is also applicable to constructions having minimum 500 sq m air-conditioned area.

Power distributor for Orissa’s State Capital Region, Central Electricity Supply Utility (CESU), has already asked its superintending and executive engineers to enforce implementation of the OECBC.

B C Jena, Chairman-cum-CEO of CESU, said: "We have started the process to enforce it in new buildings. Gradually, we will also ask the existing buildings to comply with the code."

Currently CESU is working to declare its own building OECBC compliant , and the only building abiding by the Code is the police commissioners office in the state capital Bhubaneswar.

According to the Times, developers claim that the 100 KW cap on connected load will bring almost all the commercial complexes under OECBC guidance.

The Confederation of Real Estate Developers’ Associations of India (CREDAI) state chief welcomed the move, feeling that energy saving is important for sustainable growth., and architect Tara Dhal, who added in preparing the OECBC, said implementing the code will save a substantial amount of energy, adding: "The state will save at least 40 per cent energy."

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Picture of Puri, Orissa, by Os Rúpias reproduced under CCL.

Friday 20th January 2012