2022年エネルギー保全（改正）法後のインドにおけるエネルギー効率規制：法的ギャップ、制度的課題、効果的な執行への道

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🔬研究者:Provides a framework for analyzing enforcement gaps in energy efficiency mandates, useful for comparative policy research.

🏢実務担当者:Highlights compliance risks for multinational companies operating in India under the amended Energy Conservation Act.

🏛政策担当者:Offers concrete reform recommendations for strengthening enforcement of energy efficiency regulations, applicable beyond India.

The Energy Conservation (Amendment) Act, 2022 turned a promotional statute into a mandate-based one. It empowered the Central Government to fix a minimum share of non-fossil consumption for designated consumers and to notify a carbon credit trading scheme. It extended the Act to vehicles, vessels, industrial units and establishments. It recast the definition of a regulated building, carrying it beyond commercial premises to office and residential buildings and allowing a State Government to go below the 100 kW connected load threshold that an earlier amendment had fixed in 2010. And although it left the ten lakh rupee ceiling of 2010 where it stood, it built on top of that ceiling additional penalties calculated per appliance, per vehicle and per metric tonne of oil equivalent. Four years on, the obligations are in place and enforcement is not. This paper examines why. It identifies four legal gaps: the Act names no authority competent to initiate penalty proceedings; it confers no power of investigation or seizure on any body; it fixes penalty ceilings with, on every limb but one, no floor beneath them; and it now permits almost every obligation to be discharged by payment, at prices that in the fuel economy regime are said to fall below the cost of compliance. It identifies three institutional problems: the Bureau of Energy Efficiency has technical competence but no enforcement powers, adjudication is borrowed from State electricity regulators who lack the relevant expertise, and a single industrial plant is now regulated under three statutes by three authorities with three appellate routes. The paper uses the collapse of Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency penalties in 2026 as a case study of what happens when a mandate has no credible sanction. It compares the Indian design with the United States Department of Energy's enforcement powers under the Energy Policy and Conservation Act, the United Kingdom's civil penalty regimes, and the European Union's requirement that penalties be effective, proportionate and dissuasive. It concludes with a reform agenda centred on a single enforcement authority, a statutory floor for penalties linked to the avoided cost of compliance, a compliance hierarchy that makes payment a last resort, and mandatory public reporting of compliance and adjudication.

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