In July 2020, with support from Energy Foundation China, Ningbo International Investment Consulting Company completed this roadmap study that aims to help improve the city’s cooling efficiency.

Due to their concentrated energy consumption, China’s industrial parks have become a key field for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and urban air pollution. In order to help realize deep decarbonization of industrial parks in Henan, a populous province in central China, Energy Foundation China supported the Research Institute of Environmental Sciences at Zhengzhou University to complete this research report, which was published in October 2020.

In July 2020, Wuhan Energy Conservation and Supervision Center, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, etc. jointly released this report supported by Energy Foundation China. It surveys the current cooling status of the city of 11 million people, analyses existing problems, calculates energy-saving potentials in various cooling fields, and formulates a viable pathway of and supporting policy recommendations for improving cooling efficiency in the city known for its hot summers.

Supported by Energy Foundation China, the Asia-Pacific Consulting Center for Environment and Development and the Center for Global Environmental Policy at Beijing Normal University jointly assessed the co-control effects of industrial deep decarbonization and designed co-control roadmaps for China’s iron and steel and cement sectors.

Supported by Energy Foundation China, ChinaIOL released this report in October 2020. It fixes its eye on China’s export residential air conditioning products and benchmarks energy standards of 12 countries in six continents against China’s current minimum energy performance standard to understand how well China’s exports perform in this area.

A joint effort by experts from China National Institute of Standardization, Peking University, and the cooling industry, this scoping study report was released in November 2020 with support from Energy Foundation China.

In November 2020, Tsinghua University released this report on how to decarbonize China’s industrial parks authored by Prof. CHEN Lyujun’s research group at the university’s School of Environment, with support from Energy Foundation China.

In 2019, Energy Foundation China supported the China National Institute of Standardization to provide scientific evidence for the revision of China’s energy efficiency standards for variable refrigerant flow (VRF) air conditioners. The resulting report analyzed the latest energy performance and sales statistics of VRF products in the market, collected and studied VRF-related energy standards of different countries and regions, compared VRF energy efficiency indicators of Integrated Part Load Value and Annual Performance Factor, and examined the cost-effectiveness of various VRF products. This technical report was used to support the ongoing revision of the minimum energy performance standards for VRF air conditioners in China.

This report summarizes cooling energy use patterns in six types of public institutions in China, collects and analyzes major energy-saving solutions in improving cooling efficiencies, and provides case studies to showcase their real-world application. The report was published by the China Quality Certification Center in March 2020, with support from Energy Foundation China.

In 2020, Energy Foundation China supported the China Energy Efficiency and Investment Consultancy Service Center to assess the carbon and environmental performance of Chinese-built industrial parks along the “Belt and Road.” In this report, researchers analyzed the development status of these industrial parks and built an evaluation index system to quantify how green the parks were. They also summarized lessons learned through two case studies, before they provided recommendations to industrial park stakeholders regarding how to achieve sustainable development.