The Report on the Work of the Government 2017 delivered by the Premier of the State Council.

This report summarizes the comprehensive development situation of the 2015, and describes the main targets, tasks and measures for the period of the 13th Five-Year Plan from 2016 to 2020 which aims to maintain a medium-high rate of growth and promote the development of industries toward the medium-high end, centering on the goal of finishing building a moderately prosperous society in all respects and designed to address serious issues such as unbalanced, uncoordinated, and unsustainable development, stresses the need to promote innovative, coordinated, green, open, and shared development.

According to China's 13th Five-Year Plan and 13th Five-Year Plan for Energy Development, focusing on solar power industrial upgrading, cost reducing, application expanding, the plan specifies the aims for solar power development, explains the guidelines and main targets during 2016-2020. By the end of 2020, solar power installed capacity will reach at least 110 million kilowatts, of which, photovoltaic power generation installed capacity should be more than 105 million kilowatts. By 2020, the annual utilization of solar energy will equivalent to more than 140 million TCE. During the "13th Five-Year" period, the cost of solar energy should be reduced, the cost of photovoltaic power generation continued to decline. By 2020, the level of photovoltaic power generation prices should decrease by more than 50% compared to 2015; solar power costs will be less than 0.8 yuan / kWh.

Based on the China's 13th Five-Year Plan for the Economic and Social Development, the plan clarifies the energy development outline and guidance for 2016-2020, aims to optimize energy system, promote energy product and consumption reform, and build a clean, decarbonized, safe and efficient modern energy system. The plan proposes that by 2020 the total energy consumption should be controlled within 5 billion tons of coal, during the “13th Five-Year Plan” period, total energy consumption grows by more than 2.5% per year and GDP per unit of energy use should fall by 15%. In order to achieve clean and low-carbon development and to optimize the energy structure, during the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, non-fossil energy consumption increase should be more than 15%, natural gas consumption should reach 10%, the proportion of coal consumption fell below 58%.

This Energy Policy for Georgia sets out a strategic policy framework that addresses the priorities and development opportunities in the energy sector of Georgia. The policy’s intent is to develop a long-term comprehensive state vision, which will later become the basis for the development of short, medium and long term strategies in the energy sector; and the basis for creation of energy sector programs based on these strategies and the foundation for the development of the regulatory legal basis of the sector.

The Agreement is wide in its scope, though it provides specific provisions related to the enhancement of cooperation between the parties regarding energy. In particular, the cooperation will be based on the principles of partnership, mutual interest, transparency and predictability and shall aim at market integration and regulatory convergence in the energy sector, taking into account the need to ensure access to secure, environmentally friendly and affordable energy. Emphasis is on free-market based principles and cooperation on renewable energy and energy efficiency through technology improvements. The Agreement was signed in June 2014 and came into force on July 1, 2016.

The Nauru National Energy Policy Framework (NEPF) has been developed through a consultative process involving stakeholders from the public sector, private sector and civil society groups. The policy framework provides a guideline for the development of the energy sector in Nauru for the immediate future and mid and long term. It has been developed under an integrated planning approach, with the view that the energy policy is only one of the many policy instruments that is being put in place by the Government to ensure that the Nauru economy develops to its full capacity given the many challenges facing the country.

The Joint Statement serves to start officially the beginning of cooperation between China and Pakistan to establish the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). CPEC is a framework of regional connectivity. CPEC will not only benefit China and Pakistan but will have positive impact on Iran, Afghanistan, India, Central Asian Republic, and the region. The enhancement of geographical linkages having improved road, rail and air transportation system with frequent and free exchanges of growth and people to people contact, enhancing understanding through academic, cultural and regional knowledge and culture, activity of higher volume of flow of trade and businesses, producing and moving energy to have more optimal businesses and enhancement of co-operation by win-win model will result in well connected, integrated region of shared destiny, harmony and development. To improve the lives of people of Pakistan and China by building an economic corridor promoting bilateral connectivity, construction, explore potential bilateral investment, economic and trade, logistics and people to people contact for regional connectivity. The CPEC includes energy cooperation to deploy the potential of regional connectivity and explore technological innovations.

The Project BRESL (Barrier Removal to the cost-effective development and implementation of Energy efficiency Standards and Labeling) was a regional project funded by GEF, implemented by UNDP with ENERCON being Responsible Party/ Implementing Agent.Its implementation in Pakistan commenced in January 2010 and completed in December 2014. Project aimed for the reduction in annual growth rate of greenhouse gas (GHG) from thermal power generation. The project targeted at rapidly accelerating the adoption of Energy Standards and Labels (ES&L) in Asia, and in doing so bring about energy savings through the use of energy efficient appliances/equipment. The project also facilitated harmonization of test procedures, energy efficiency standards and labels among developing countries in Asia.

This Act provides for the establishment of institutions and enunciation of mechanisms and procedures so as to provide for effective conservation and efficient use of energy in Pakistan.