The Indo-Swiss Building Energy Efficiency Project (BEEP) 2008-2023
The Indo-Swiss Building Energy Efficiency Project was a bilateral cooperation programme between (BEEP) the Ministry of Power (MoP), Government of India, and the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) of the Swiss Confederation. The Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) was the Iimplementing agency on behalf of the MoP while the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) is the agency on behalf of the FDFA.
It supported the Government of India in the reduction of energy consumption in new commercial, public and residential buildings in India through energy-efficient and thermally comfortable (EETC) design.
The CHF 11 million project ran from 2008 to 2023 during which GKSPL was involved from its inception as the main implementing partner in India. Around 9 million tons of CO2eq were reduced through direct interventions of the project such as the integrated design charrettes while 170 million tons CO2eq per year were be reduced through indirect interventions.
The project had the following components (click to view):
Awareness & Outreach
The design guidelines developed by the project for the design of energy-efficient multi-storey residential buildings for all major climatic regions of the country were highlighted in the Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) submitted by the Government of India in the run-up to the Paris Climate Change Conference in 2015.
The work done under BEEP served as a basis to develop India’s first Roadmap for Energy Efficient Residential buildings by IEA. Inputs were also provided to formulate SE4All’s report on ‘Electricity Consumption for Cooling in 2050’ as well as to the K-CEP Phase 2 strategy document on passive cooling.
