December 14, observed as National Energy Conservation Day

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Every year December 14, is observed as National energy conservation day by the people all over the India  to raise awareness about the importance of energy and its conservation. The day focuses on using energy sources efficiently to save it for future usage.

Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE)  felicitated companies that have been the best energy performer in various sectors in a function organised  at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi.

Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE)

In the year 2001, the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) executed the Energy Conservation Act in India. BEE is a constitutional body which comes under the Government of India. It was created under in March 2002 under the provisions of the nation's 2001 Energy Conservation Act. The government has proposed to make it mandatory for all appliances in India to have ratings by the BEE starting in January 2010.

Objectives of Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) :

The mission of Bureau of Energy Efficiency is to "institutionalize" energy efficiency services, enable delivery mechanisms in the country and provide leadership to energy efficiency in all sectors of the country. The primary objective would be to reduce energy intensity in the economy.

Why energy conservation is important for India ?

• Energy resources in  India are limited we have only one percent of world's energy resources but our popultaion constitutes 16 percent of world's population.
• Energy production by thermal power plants and other power plants that uses non renewable energy sources account to large proportion of air pollution and more than 83 percent of greenhouse gas emissions.
• 'Non renewable energy sources',  make for 80 percent of the fuel use that we use in our daliy although nature has gifted us abundant of  renewable energy sources  that can provide green energy but still we use very less part of it.