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Energy Efficiency Finance : Assessing the Impact of IFC's China Utility-Based Energy Efficiency Finance Program.
Title:
Energy Efficiency Finance : Assessing the Impact of IFC's China Utility-Based Energy Efficiency Finance Program.
Author:
Bank, The World.
ISBN:
9780821384527
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (151 pages)
Series:
Independent Evaluation Group Studies
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Executive Summary -- Chairman's Summary: Subcommittee on Development Effectiveness (CODE) -- Chapter 1. Climate Change and Financing Energy Efficiency -- Climate Change and Energy Efficiency -- IFC Engagement in Financing Energy Efficiency -- Chapter 2. The China Utility-Based Energy Efficiency Finance Program -- Energy Efficiency Challenges in China -- Design of the Program -- Implementation of CHUEE -- CHUEE's End Users -- Energy Efficiency Performance of Projects Supported by the Guarantees -- Management and Organizational Aspects -- Summary -- Chapter 3. CHUEE's Impacts -- Evaluative Questions -- Comparisons between Program Beneficiaries and Nonbeneficiaries -- Government Policy and Energy Efficiency Investments -- Unique Contributions of the Program -- Quantifying Overall Impacts and the Program's Efficiency -- Issues and Challenges -- Summary of CHUEE's Impact -- Chapter 4. Lessons and Recommendations -- Lessons from CHUEE -- Recommendations -- Appendix A: Chinese Government Policy to Support Energy Efficiency -- Appendix B: CHUEE Funding Sources -- Appendix C: Summary of Surveys Conducted for the Evaluation -- Appendix D: Bank Survey -- Appendix E: Energy Management Company Survey -- Appendix F: Cement Company Survey -- Appendix G: CHUEE Cost Benefit Analysis -- Appendix H: Major Climate Change Projects in China -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- Back cover.
Abstract:
This evaluation assesses the performance of IFC's energy efficiency finance program in China aimed at stimulating energy efficiency investments through bank guarantees and technical assistance. The difference made by the program is traced along the chain of interventions: (i) at the level of banks, the program is narrowly based on one of the two partner banks, which, with the help of the program, expanded its energy efficiency lending as a new business line; (ii) at the level of energy management companies, the program's technical assistance improved the program participants' access to finance; and (iii) at the end-user level, it promoted the use of energy efficiency investments that achieved reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. The utilization of IFC's program has been rapid compared with other similar programs. The energy efficiency investments supported by the program have reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 14 million CO2 tons per year, slightly in excess of the target set at the beginning of the program. However, there is only a weak differentiation in behavior surrounding energy efficiency investment between end users supported by the program and other similar companies that were not. It is important to note that the performance of the program was heavily influenced by the government's policy actions and the earlier efforts of other players: The Chinese government and other players such as the World Bank. The CHUEE program, relying mainly on commercial funding through IFC's guarantees, builds on these efforts.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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