High Energy-Efficient District Cooling System and Its Engineering Applications in India
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Abstract
This paper introduces the studies and experience learned in district cooling project development in developed countries and adaptation process in India for city-level rapid assessment. There are five pilot Indian cities chosen to go through all the process of rapid assessment so as to outline the barriers, challenges, and potential to develop high energy-efficient district cooling system. The paper also instructs the tech-eco analysis tools for rapid assessment, which is developed by the UNEP District Energy in Cities Initiative and adapted in India. According to the results, the economic and technical boundaries of implementing district cooling systems are outlined.
Keywords
District energy system Tech-eco analysis Energy efficiency indicators Climate changeNotes
Acknowledgements
Both the study in this paper and implementations are supported by the Global Environment Facility (GEF-6) funding project “Increasing Investments in District Energy Systems in Cities—a SE4All Energy Efficiency Accelerator”. The methodologies used in technical-economic analysis are results from academic research projects of National Scientific Fund(No. 51108185 and No. 51778235), Province natural science fund of Guangdong(No. 2016A030313513), and the State Key Laboratory of Subtropical Building Science(No. 2019ZA04 and No. 2013KB24).
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