A Survey on the Influential Factors in Energy Performance Contracting Process in China

Abstract:

Energy Performance Contracting is a new financial mechanism committed to the energy efficiency financing and an important bridge to communicate energy service companies and clients. The paper sums up 19 influential factors through the literature review and the process in Energy Performance Contracting. 9 factors that the policy, clients' appetite for risk, building energy consumption of clients, the costs of ESCOs, the technological level of ESCOs, the energy-saving result of projects, the proportion of energy-saving share, project supervision and project complexity are extracted which provides the important reference for designing the energy performance contract based on the questionnaire survey and empirical research.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 357-360)
• Pages: 2768-2774
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.357-360.2768
• Online since: August 2013
• Authors: Yan Qu, Chao Hui Quan, Jo Darkwa, David Chow
• Keywords: Energy Performance Contracting, Influential Factor, Questionnaire Survey

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