Low energy efficiency of Chinese industrial equipment implies that there issignificant potential for energy savings. Implementation of energy-efficiency standards is ameans to realize these energy savings. Analysis of energy saving potential quantifies thepotential costs and benefits of the standards. Where the benefits are large, policy-makers areencouraged to pay more attention to the standards program. Such analyses also provide ascientific reference to help set priorities among candidate products. This paper presents thecurrent status of energy efficiency standards for three major types of energy-consumingindustrial equipment and estimates potential national energy savings, assuming the newenergy efficiency standards are implemented in 2004 or 2005. Based on this analysis, weestimate the energy saving potential from new energy standards for these three types ofequipment in the Chinese industrial sector. Results show that the primary energy savingsachieved from small and medium 3-phase asynchronous electric motors, distributiontransforms, and industrial boilers are 5.51Mtce, 7.39 Mtce and 35.65Mtce respectively in2020. The environmental and economic benefits achieved by new standards for theseproducts are substantial and induce considerable net economic benefits over the 2004-2020period. It is urgent to develop mandatory energy efficiency standards for these three types ofequipment in the very near future to recognize the substantial energy savings, and theassociated environmental and economic benefits.
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