Year of efficient energy saving. Programme on energy conservation adds momentum to saving

摘要

In September 1992 the Finnish Government approved the proposal for a Programme on Energy Conservation for 1992-1996. The Programme was defined by setting sector specific targets for specific energy consumptions and using the year 2005 as a target year for longer term efficiency improvement. This publication has the purpose of describing and reporting the progress made during the first year of the Programme. Measures for energy conservation in industry have been promoted trough agreements. The Ministry of Trade and Industry and important trade organisations of the industry have signed an agreement on the measures to be taken in industry for energy conservation. This agreement will be complemented with company specific agreements. For the space heating studies have been launched to tighten standards for energy consumption in buildings and to introduce consumer-specific billing. The technical condition assessment under development will be combined with energy auditing. Efforts will be made to develop indicators for specific energy consumption. Possibilities for energy conservation in households will be studied in terms of the Linkki Programme. Energy labelling will be introduced during the second half of 1994. A separate conservation programme has been prepared for the public sector. It will be implemented on the basis of conservation agreements to be signed with municipalities. Energy auditing in the service sector has been promoted through state funding. Energy conservation in transportation is connected mainly with other activities for protecting the environment for example in the work of the Ministry of Transport and Communications. Information and advice campaigns will be organised. Biofuels and more efficient engine technologies will be studied and developed