How could public sectors facilitate to procure professional energy management service for buildings?

Abstract

Professional energy management service could be the useful measure to reduce greenhouse gas emission from the operation of residential and commercial buildings because it can provide professional knowledge to set up the optimized solution that is suitable to the specific conditions and contexts of each building. Though technologies relating to energy management service have been progressed intensively due to the fruit of rapidly undergoing digitalization, the service does not establish business eco-system yet. The paper discusses how policy measures could enhance the dissemination of the service. It focuses on the aspect that public sectors could be the largest client to the emerging service. Based on the debate with policymakers in which the author has committed, the paper identifies significant issues to be considered to establish a standardized contractual framework to procure the service by public sectors. Once the framework is formulated, it could be usable as a template for the standardized template for the procurement contract among the service providers and clients including private sectors and individual owners and users of buildings.