Ratings of the Green Energy for Low-carbon City in Shanghai Project for China were as follows: outcome was moderately satisfactory, Bank performance was satisfactory, and monitoring and evaluation quality was modest. ... See More + Lessons learned included: government institutions can and should play a critical role to share knowledge and coordinate interventions to unlock innovative win-win opportunities for low-carbon city development. The PMO served this role in the Project as designed and implemented. It acted as a professional management agency that forged links between building managers, project developers, financiers, energy service companies, and policymakers. The pilot schemes led by the PMO acted as a test bed for operations that succeeded by reducing information asymmetries among stakeholders. This allowed policies and programs to evolve over time and create public-private partnerships. For buildings specifically, the Project demonstrated that a holistic approach to design, construction and operation of both new and retrofit projects can achieve innovative, replicable results for near-zero emissions. To facilitate this, a project management office needs high-level support from government leaders and long-term retention of competent staff to carry though ideas and relationships from beginning to end, as occurred in Changing. Other important factors include well-targeted grants or subsidies and technical assistance activities, as well as the intensive involvement of leading experts to push the frontier in partnership with commercial developers. Access to good quality building energy data is fundamental to reveal efficiency opportunities and is useful to inform related government policy. Data access can be facilitated by building submeters connected to a secure online data platform, as pioneered in changing for government and commercial buildings through a contracted technology service provider. Such data can identify savings opportunities for individual buildings, and when aggregated and analyzed for many buildings can demonstrate the usefulness of such systems for the sector at large. Representative data for an entire district or municipality can enable more precise targeting of subsidies to support innovative interventions and the formulation of benchmarking policies. Government data collection and benchmarking programs need to consider commercial confidentiality and privacy, voluntary participation or a range of ways to fulfil data requests.  See Less -

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Disclosure Status: Disclosed

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Author: Wang,Xiaodong