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• In August, the Government of Canada released Build Smart - Canada’s Buildings Strategy which seeks to
dramatically increase the energy efficiency of Canadian buildings in pursuit of a net zero energy ready level
of performance.
• In December, the BC Energy Step Code entered into legal force in British Columbia, Canada. The regulation
is designed as a technical roadmap to help the province reach its target that all new buildings will attain a
net zero energy ready level of performance by 2032.

2018
• In March, SEDA Malaysia started the Zero Energy Building Facilitation Program
• The California Energy Efficiency Strategic Plan is launched with ambitious goals for the development of
zero net energy buildings. These include:
o All new residential construction will be zero net energy (ZNE) by 2020.
o All new commercial construction will be ZNE by 2030
o 50% of commercial buildings will be retrofit to ZNE by 2030
o 50% of new major renovations of state buildings will be ZNE by 2025.
• The EU Energy Performance of Buildings Directive requires all new buildings to be nearly zero-energy by
the end of 2020.

2019
• In January The National University of Singapore (NUS) launched Singapore’s first net-zero energy building
to be built from scratch at its School of Design and Environment (SDE).

2020
• The Pertamina Energy Tower -a net-zero energy skyscraper opens in the centre of Jakarta, Indonesia. It is
99 stories high and serve as the headquarters of Pertamina, the national energy company. In addition to
the 20,000 people who will work there, it is the centrepiece of a campus that has a mosque, a sports centre
and a 2,000-seat auditorium for the performing arts.

11.8 PV in Developing Countries 2010-2019

This decade sees the off-grid market focused on two solutions for the unelectrified people in developing
countries. The solutions are plug and play Solar Home Systems and Mini-Grids. However, there is still a market
for component based solar home systems which have a higher peak watt rating than those being provided by
plug and play systems. Lighting Global introduces a Product Quality Assurance program for the testing and
approval of plug and play solar home systems. The Global Off-Grid Lighting Association (GOGLA) is formed
and many of its members are from those companies providing the products approved through Lighting
Global. In the second half of the decade, bi-annual off grid solar trend reports are developed, and the results
are summarised below. The mini-grid market expands as a solution for electrifying villages globally and in
particular those in Sub-Saharan Africa. Many bi-lateral and multi-lateral donors now focus in on this area and
the number of companies and products has grown. A key driver for all of this interest in off grid solutions was
Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG7), which called for universal access to sustainable energy by 2030.
A significant development as the decade progressed is that with the growth of the plug and play market,
product prices were greatly reduced and in parallel with this is the development of more efficient appliances
and LED lighting. This resulted in a 50W PV system being able to power similar appliances to what would
need a 300-500W system 20 years prior. Due to the rapid expansion of the plug and play market and the
installation of micro-grids in the developing countries, the data provided for this decade focuses on those
installations as distinct from the donor projects as shown in previous decades.

• In 2010 1.14 billion people in the world did not have access to electricity, representing 16.5% of the total
population. This had decreased to 939 million by 2016, representing 12.6% of the population.

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