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4.8 Financial assistance for energy conservation
Objects Organization Rate
Energy conservation promotion projects for the industrial sector

The following projects which will make it possible to reduce energy consumption by 100kL or more per year in terms of crude oil:

(Effective energy use)
(1) The projects for installing the additional equipment for collecting
non-used energy, such as waste heat or the equipment for raising the efficiency of energy use, which will increase energy, use efficiency by 20% or more.

(Promotion of the introduction of the approved equipment for the industries of the effective energy use type)

(2) The projects in which the enterprises approved under Article 4 of
Energy Conservation Assistance Law install or improve the approved equipment at their factory or place of business.
JDB
ODFC
Preferential rate I *1
Energy conservation promotion projects for the buildings

(1) Repairing projects contributing to improvement in energy saving
performance

(Promotion of the introduction of the approved equipment for the business approved as the one of the effective energy use type, etc.)

(2) In the case where the enterprises approved under Article 4 of
Energy Conservation Assistance Law, etc. construct buildings (including the case where the enterprises extend or reconstruct buildings), the projects for installing or improving the approved equipment, etc.
JDB
NEF
ODFC
Preferential rate II *2
Energy conservation promotion projects for the consumer sector

(Projects for improving the manufacturing equipment of energy conservation type machines and appliances)
(1) The projects for installing or improving the manufacturing
equipment of the machines and appliances that meet the standard for judgment under the Energy Conservation Law, and the projects that have been approved as sufficient to meet the standard for judgment quickly.

(Promotion of the introduction of the machines and appliances under the International Energy Star Program)

(2) Projects for introducing the machines and appliances that meet the
energy conservation standard under the International Energy Star Program.
JDB
NEF
ODFC
Preferential rate III
(Improvement in congeneration systems)
The projects for introducing the congeneration systems having a primary energy efficiency of 60% or more and an output of 50kWh or more.
JDB
NEF
ODFC
Preferential rate II
(Promotion of effective energy use)Funds needed for acquiring energy conservation facilities (including reconstructing and renewing such facilities) JFS
PFC
Special rate II
(Promotion of the introduction of the approved equipment for the industries of the effective energy use type)Funds that the enterprises approved under Article 4 of Energy Conservation Assistance Law, etc. need for acquiring energy conservation facilities. JFS
PFC
ODFC
Fiscal loan rate*3
(Promotion of replacement of old-type general-use energy consum-ing equipment with more energy efficient one)Funds needed for replacing old-type industrial furnaces and boilers with new ones, or the funds needed for installing additional equip-ment for realizing the performance equivalent to replacement. JFS
PFC
ODFC
Fiscal loan rate*3
*1 Energy conservation promotion projects for the industrial sector are provided with interest subsidies from Oil
Special Account in Category (2). The preferential rate I is applied only to the projects that are given a loan during the period when an application for interest subsidy is accepted.

*2 Energy conservation promotion projects for buildings are provided with interest subsidies from Oil Special Account in Category (2). The preferential rate II is applied only to the projects that are given a loan during the period when an application for interest subsidy is accepted.

*3 These projects are provided with interest subsidies from Oil Special Account.

JDB: Japan Development Bank
ODFC: The Okinawa Development Finance Corporation
NEF: North East Finance of Japan
JFS: Japan Finance Corporation for Small Business
PFC: People's Finance Corporation


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