Building energy efficiency in japan: A benchmark for Malaysia in the development of renewable energy technologyud

摘要

Governments throughout the world, including Malaysia, began to look atuddiverse options in energy conservation and new energy resources, and energy efficiencyudtechnology. Malaysia ratifying the Kyoto Protocol in September 2003 has opened the way forudMalaysian renewable energy project developers to seek financing under the CleanudDevelopment Mechanism. Another opportunity is emerging because Malaysia as one of theudfastest growing building industries in the world, from which a corresponding increase inudenergy demand can be expected every years. Japan as a highly industrialized nation hasudfaced serious pollution and two oil crises, and was obliged to bear environmental regulationsudand energy conservation measures over the short term. However, as result of the concertedudefforts of the public and private sectors in response to the strict environmental and energyudrestrictions, Japan's energy efficiency has improved over the past 30 years and oiludconsumption has decreased even though the GDP has doubled. The objective of this paperudis to discuss about existing energy efficiency technology in Japan and challenges, lessons,udand current development of participation from public and private sectors toward cleanudenergy policy by Japanese government, which can even be follow by the developingudcountries with some modifications. This study can contribute to our understanding on theudapplicability of the energy efficiency method in Japan, one of the countries that succeeded inudadopting renewable energy in its national energy scenario, to become a benchmark to audcountry such as Malaysia.