Mr Roland Hwang, Managing Director for Climate and Energy with the Natural Resources Defence Council (NRDC) met the Principal Secretary Municipal Administration Arvind Kumar today and discussed issues relating to advancing building energy efficiency and electric mobility.
The discussion focussed on advancing building energy efficiency through updates to the state energy conservation building code (ECBC) . Principal Secretary asked the members of the delegation who are leading international and local experts on energy efficiency to suggest a statewide cool roof programme and a program to retrofit around a hundred government buildings.
The proposal should make it mandatory for all new residential buildings, commercial establishments and government buildings to have cool rooftops, he said. Increasing the scope and potential for electric vehicles and charging infrastructure in the state as part of the draft state Electric Vehicle policy was also discussed in the meeting.
Principal secretary suggested that the draft electric vehicle policy should insist that e-vehicles should replace all the existing vehicles. A beginning should be made with public transport vehicles, and garbage mini vans. Mr Roland Hwang briefed about the Net Zero concept prevalent in California.
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