Energy Conservation Building Code (ECBC), 2017
- Bureau of Energy Efficiency launched the Energy Conservation Building Code (ECBC) 2017 to establish minimum energy performance standards for buildings in India. Buildings consume significant proportion of our energy resources and the ECBC is an essential regulatory tool to curb their energy footprint.
- ECBC 2017 is one of the first building energy codes to recognize beyond code performance.
- There are now three levels of energy performance standards in the code.
- In ascending order of efficiency, these are ECBC, ECBC Plus and Super ECBC.
- To be ECBC-compliant, the new buildings should be able to demonstrate minimum energy savings of 25%. Energy savings of ....
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