| | FEBRUARY 20208Consultants ReviewUNLOCKING NEW BUSINESS SCALE AND EFFICIENCIES THROUGH ITEESL is a joint venture under the Ministry of Power, Government of India devoted to implementing energy efficiency program for the masses. Saraubh is an electrical Engineer and an environmentalist who has been leading EESL in successfully implementing energy efficiency projects.By Saurabh Kumar, Managing Director, Energy Efficiency Servicesver since India's rat-ification of the Paris Agreement, the world has been paying close attention to our climate change reforms. Our efforts in energy conservation have been commended globally and the world is acknowl-edging the leadership India is demon-strating in energy efficiency­a sim-ple, transformative and cost-effective climate change solution.This has been possible because of a conducive policy environment. The Energy Conservation Act of 2001 promotes energy efficiency providing regulatory mandate for standards and labeling of equipment and appliances; energy conservation building codes for commercial buildings; and, ener-gy consumption norms for energy-in-tensive industries. Simultaneously, the National Mission for Enhanced Energy Efficiency (NMEEE) seeks to strengthen India's energy efficiency market through favourable regulato-ry and policy regime, enabling India to avoid annual demand for 19,598 MW, and fuel savings of around 23 million tonnes. One of the most significant in-terventions for India has been in the domain of consumer-led usage of energy efficient products and ser-vices, and includes everything from identifying standards for consumer appliances to enabling a market for adoption of efficient products. How-ever, deployment of efficient products faces barriers like lack of information and consumer awareness of benefits, and a prohibitive cost of ownership. With regulatory and market-based in-terventions, India has overcome these challenges by using IT as a catalyst to execute what has become the world's largest energy efficiency programme.The Government of India's domes-tic efficient lighting scheme ­ UJALA (Unnat Jyoti by Affordable LEDs for All) has adopted IT as an enabler. EIN MY OPINION
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