Tools & Guidebooks
Purpose
Reliable and accurate data are critical to good analysis for policy and business. In 1992, we released the first edition of the China Energy Databook, acknowledged to be the most comprehensive and authoritative sourcebook of its kind. We have continued revising and expanding the database, currently in its 9th edition.
Audience
City policy makers, city planners, city managers, research institutes.
Languages
English
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Purpose
Provide city authorities with more than 70 strategies they can follow to reduce city-wide carbon dioxide emissions based on a quick assessment of a city's local energy use and energy-related carbon dioxide emissions across nine sectors.
Audience
City policy makers, city planners, city managers, research institutes.
Languages
English | Chinese
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Benchmarking and Energy Saving Tool for Low Carbon Cities (BEST Cities)
Purpose
Develop the city’s GHG inventory, scenario generation on future energy and emission, evaluate the impact of different policies, help to set target and develop action plans and target allocation.
Audience
City policy makers, city planners, city managers
Languages
English | Chinese
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Purpose
To evaluate comprehensive energy policies, future scenarios, supply options and energy, emissions and pollutants analysis.
Audience
Energy and environmental policymakers, planners, researchers.
Languages
English
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Purpose
Define low carbon eco-city, evaluate and compare international and Chinese cities with indicators to assess progress, identify best practices and facilitate policy recommendations.
Audience
City policy makers, city planners, city managers, low carbon city policy researchers, etc.
Languages
English | Chinese
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Eco and Low-carbon Indicator Tool for Evaluating Cities (ELITE Cities)
Purpose
Analyze commercial building retrofit energy savings and investment cost-effectiveness.
Audience
Retrofit practitioners, policy makers, facility managers, and engineers (w/o building energy modeling knowledge).
Languages
English | Chinese
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Commercial Building Analysis Tool for Energy-Efficient Retrofits (COMBAT)
Purpose
Give the energy saving potential and cost of the energy efficiency technologies that the user chooses as applicable to their pulp and paper plants.
Languages
English | Chinese
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Purpose
Give the energy saving potential and cost of the energy efficiency technologies that the user chooses as applicable to their steel plants.
Languages
English | Chinese
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Purpose
Give the energy saving potential and cost of the energy efficiency technologies that the user chooses as applicable to their textile plants.
Audience
Engineers and managers of steel industry, energy auditors, energy efficiency researchers.
Languages
English | Chinese
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Purpose
Help quantify the structural change in the industry during the study period and how it affects the industry energy use.
Audience
Local and national government officials, academics and researchers.
Languages
English | Chinese
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Purpose
Process-based benchmarking and energy savings tool for cement industry.
Audience
Engineers and managers of cement industry, energy efficiency researchers.
Languages
English | Chinese
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Benchmarking and Energy Saving Tool for the Cement Industry (BEST Cement)
Purpose
Analyze commercial building retrofit energy savings and investment cost-effectiveness.
Audience
Retrofit practitioners, policy makers, facility managers, and engineers (w/o building energy modeling knowledge).
Languages
English | Chinese
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Commercial Building Analysis Tool for Energy-Efficient Retrofits (COMBAT)
Purpose
Produce optimal investment decisions and dispatch for technologies as fuel cells, PV, solar thermal, electric / heat storage, heat pumps, EVs, etc.; minimize annual energy costs, CO2 emissions, or multiple objectives of providing services to buildings.
Audience
DER project developers, DER and renewable energy integration researchers.
Languages
English | Chinese
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Distributed Energy Resources Customer Adoption Model (DER-CAM)
Purpose
Conduct an energy assessment or audit of the heating equipment used by many industries to identify energy use distribution, estimate energy losses, as well as analyze potential energy savings by using commonly recommended energy saving measures. 对主要工业行业使用的加热设备进行能源评估或能源审计，从而了解用能状况、测算能源消耗，以及评估采用推荐的节能措施后的节能潜力。
Languages
English | Chinese
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Process Heating Assessment and Survey Tool (Excel Version) (PHASTEx)
Purpose
Help quantify the structural change and water intensity change in the industry during the study period and how it affects the industry water use trends.
Audience
Local and national government officials, academics and researchers.
Languages
English | Chinese
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Structure and Manufacturing Resource Tool for Water (SMART-Water)
Purpose
Assist decision makers in implementing sludge-end-use-in-cement schemes with optimal economic and environmental outcomes.
Audience
Engineers and managers of cement industry, energy auditors, local government and energy efficiency researchers.
Languages
English | Chinese
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Sewage Sludge Use in Cement Companies as an Energy Source (SUCCESS)
Purpose
Provide a quick assessment of the magnitude and sources of a city's operational and embodied energy and carbon footprints in order to understand better the drivers of urban energy/emissions growth and areas of possible policy intervention.
Audience
City planner, policymakers, managers and researchers.
Languages
English | Chinese