Abstract
11 years have passed since ESCO businesses in Japan started in 1996. From the beginning, ESCO was placed as useful countermeasures cope with global warming, and was supported by government. In this paper, we describe key features of the ESCO market, market trend from introduction of ESCO business to development, the detailed analysis of the survey results and the features of ESCO business in Japan.
On the other hand, ESCO is the business of which realizes energy-saving and economical performance simultaneously. In this paper, we verified the evaluation method of the energy efficiency and economic performance.