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Title Energy efficiency finance : assessing the impact of IFC's China Utility-Based Energy Efficiency Finance Program
Published Washington, D.C. : World Bank, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 75 pages) : illustrations
Series IEG study series
IEG study series.
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Executive Summary; Chairman's Summary: Subcommittee on Development Effectiveness (CODE); Chapter 1. Climate Change and Financing Energy Efficiency; Chapter 2. The China Utility-Based Energy Efficiency Finance Program; Chapter 3. CHUEE's Impacts; Chapter 4. Lessons and Recommendations; Appendix A: Chinese Government Policy to Support Energy Efficiency; Appendix B: CHUEE Funding Sources; Appendix C: Summary of Surveys Conducted for the Evaluation; Appendix D: Bank Survey
Appendix E: Energy Management Company SurveyAppendix F: Cement Company Survey; Appendix G: CHUEE Cost Benefit Analysis; Appendix H: Major Climate Change Projects in China; Endnotes; Bibliography; Back cover
Summary This evaluation assesses the performance of IFC's energy efficiency finance program in China aimed at stimulating energy efficiency investments through bank guarantees and technical assistance. The difference made by the program is traced along the chain of interventions: (i) at the level of banks, the program is narrowly based on one of the two partner banks, which, with the help of the program, expanded its energy efficiency lending as a new business line; (ii) at the level of energy management companies, the program's technical assistance improved the program participants' access to finance; and (iii) at the end-user level, it promoted the use of energy efficiency investments that achieved reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. The utilization of IFC's program has been rapid compared with other similar programs. The energy efficiency investments supported by the program have reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 14 million CO2 tons per year, slightly in excess of the target set at the beginning of the program. However, there is only a weak differentiation in behavior surrounding energy efficiency investment between end users supported by the program and other similar companies that were not. It is important to note that the performance of the program was heavily influenced by the government's policy actions and the earlier efforts of other players: The Chinese government and other players such as the World Bank. The CHUEE program, relying mainly on commercial funding through IFC's guarantees, builds on these efforts
Notes At head of title: IEG Independent Evaluation Group, World Bank/IFC/MIGA
"This report was prepared by a team led by Hiroyuki Hatashima, drawing on research and contributions from Izlem Yenice and Houqi Hong"--Page vii
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 74-75)
Notes Print version record
Subject International Finance Corporation -- Evaluation
SUBJECT International Finance Corporation fast
Subject Energy industries -- Capital investments -- China
Energy industries -- Environmental aspects -- China
Energy industries -- China -- Finance
Greenhouse gas mitigation -- China
Technical assistance -- China -- Evaluation
Energy policy -- China
Energy consumption -- China
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Power Resources -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Energy.
SCIENCE -- Energy.
Energy consumption
Energy industries -- Capital investments
Energy industries -- Environmental aspects
Energy industries -- Finance
Energy policy
Evaluation
Greenhouse gas mitigation
Technical assistance -- Evaluation
China
Form Electronic book
Author Hatashima, Hiroyuki
World Bank. Independent Evaluation Group.
LC no. 2012361221
ISBN 9780821384527
082138452X
0821384503
9780821384503
1282725750
9781282725751
6612725753
9786612725753
Other Titles Assessing the impact of IFC's China Utility-Based Energy Efficiency Finance Program