第一条 为了推进全社会节约能源，提高能源利用效率和经济效益，保护环境，保障国民经济和社会的发展，满足人民生活需要，制定本法。
Article 1 This Law is formulated in order to promote energy conservation by all sectors of the society, increase the efficiency in the use of energy and its economic results, protect the environment, ensure national economic and social development, and meet the people's needs in everyday life.
第二条 本法所称能源，是指煤炭、原油、天然气、电力、焦炭、煤气、热力、成品油、液化石油气、生物质能和其他直接或者通过加工、转换而取得有用能的各种资源。
Article 2 The term "energy" as used in this Law refers to coal, crude oil, natural gas, power, coke, coal gas, heat, processed oil, liquefied petroleum gas, biomass energy and other resources from which useful energy can be derived directly or through processing or conversion.
第三条 本法所称节能，是指加强用能管理，采取技术上可行、经济上合理以及环境和社会可以承受的措施，减少从能源生产到消费各个环节中的损失和浪费，更加有效、合理地利用能源。
Article 3 The term "energy conservation" as used in this Law means: enhancing management in the use of energy; adopting measures which are technologically feasible, economically rational, and, by reducing loss and waste at every stage from production through to consumption of energy, environmentally and socially acceptable in order to use energy more efficiently and rationally.
第四条 节能是国家发展经济的一项长远战略方针。
Article 4 Energy conservation is a long-term concept of strategy of the State for national economic development.
国务院和省、自治区、直辖市人民政府应当加强节能工作，合理调整产业结构、企业结构、产品结构和能源消费结构，推进节能技术进步，降低单位产值能耗和单位产品能耗，改善能源的开发、加工转换、输送和供应，逐步提高能源利用效率，促进国民经济向节能型发展。
The State Council and the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government shall strengthen their efforts in energy conservation; readjust in a rational way the industrial structure, pattern of enterprises, product mix and pattern of energy consumption; facilitate technological progress for energy conservation; reduce energy consumption per unit output value and per unit product; and improve the exploitation, processing, conversion, transmission and supply of energy so as to gradually increase the utilization rate of energy and promote the development of the national economy in an energy-efficient manner.
国家鼓励开发、利用新能源和可再生能源。
The State encourages the development and utilization of new and renewable resources of energy.
第五条 国家制定节能政策，编制节能计划，并纳入国民经济和社会发展计划，保障能源的合理利用，并与经济发展、环境保护相协调。
Article 5 The State formulates policies and plans for energy conservation, which shall be incorporated into plans for national economic and social development so as to ensure the rational utilization of energy resources and coordinate energy conservation with economic development and environmental protection.
第六条 国家鼓励、支持节能科学技术的研究和推广，加强节能宣传和教育，普及节能科学知识，增强全民的节能意识。
Article 6 The State encourages and supports research and dissemination of science and technology for energy conservation and makes greater efforts to publicize and educate the people in the importance of energy conservation, spreading scientific knowledge about energy conservation among all the people so as to enhance their awareness of the need.
第七条 任何单位和个人都应当履行节能义务，有权检举浪费能源的行为。
Article 7 All organizations and individuals shall fulfill their obligation to conserve energy and have the right to report against any waste of energy.
各级人民政府对在节能或者节能科学技术研究、推广中有显著成绩的单位和个人给予奖励。
The people's governments at all levels shall give rewards to any organizations or individuals that achieve outstanding successes in energy conservation or in research or dissemination of science and technology for energy conservation.
第八条 国务院管理节能工作的部门主管全国的节能监督管理工作。
Article 8 The administrative department for energy conservation under the State Council shall be in charge of supervision over and administration of the work for energy conservation throughout the country.
国务院有关部门在各自的职责范围内负责节能监督管理工作。
The relevant departments under the State Council shall exercise supervision and administration in the work within the scope of their functions and responsibilities respectively.
县级以上地方人民政府管理节能工作的部门主管本行政区域内的节能监督管理工作。
The administrative departments for energy conservation under the local people's governments at or above the county level shall be in charge of supervision over and administration of the work for energy conservation in their respective administrative areas.
县级以上地方人民政府有关部门在各自的职责范围内负责节能监督管理工作。
The relevant departments of the local people's governments at or above the county level shall exercise supervision and administration in the work within the scope of their functions and responsibilities respectively.
第九条 国务院和地方各级人民政府应当加强对节能工作的领导，每年部署、协调、监督、检查、推动节能工作。
Article 9 The State Council and the local people's governments at all levels shall strengthen leadership in energy conservation, making plans for, coordinating, supervising, inspecting and promoting the work of energy conservation every year.
第十条 国务院和省、自治区、直辖市人民政府应当根据能源节约与能源开发并举，把能源节约放在首位的方针，在对能源节约与能源开发进行技术、经济和环境比较论证的基础上，择优选定能源节约、能源开发投资项目，制定能源投资计划。
Article 10 The State Council and the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government shall, according to the principle of making efforts simultaneously to conserve energy and exploit it while giving first priority to the former, decide on the optional energy conservation and exploitation projects for investment and work out plans for such investment on the basis of a comparative demonstration in terms of technology, economy and environment with regard to energy conservation and exploitation.
第十一条 国务院和省、自治区、直辖市人民政府应当在基本建设、技术改造资金中安排节能资金，用于支持能源的合理利用以及新能源和可再生能源的开发。
Article 11 The State Council and the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government shall allocate funds for energy conservation in funds for capital construction and technical upgrading to support rational utilization of energy and exploitation of new and renewable energy resources.
市、县人民政府根据实际情况安排节能资金，用于支持能源的合理利用以及新能源和可再生能源的开发。
People's governments at the municipal and county levels shall allocate funds for energy conservation according to their actual conditions in order to support rational utilization of energy and exploitation of new and renewable energy resources.
第十二条 固定资产投资工程项目的可行性研究报告，应当包括合理用能的专题论证。
Article 12 Special demonstration of rational use of energy shall be included in the feasibility study reports of fixed assets projects for investment.
固定资产投资工程项目的设计和建设，应当遵守合理用能标准和节能设计规范。
The fixed assets projects for investment shall be designed and constructed in conformity with the standards for rational use of energy and for energy conservation design.
达不到合理用能标准和节能设计规范要求的项目，依法审批的机关不得批准建设；项目建成后，达不到合理用能标准和节能设计规范要求的，不予验收。
Organs authorized with the power of examining and approving construction projects according to law may not approve the construction of projects which fail to conform to the standards for rational use of energy and for energy conservation design or accept such projects when completed.
禁止新建的耗能过高的工业项目的名录和具体实施办法，由国务院管理节能工作的部门会同国务院有关部门制定。
The administrative department for energy conservation under the State Council shall, together with the other relevant departments under the State Council, prepare a catalogue of highly energy-consuming industrial projects that are prohibited from being constructed and shall formulate specific measures for implementation.
第十四条 国务院标准化行政主管部门制定有关节能的国家标准。
Article 14 The administrative department for standardization under the State Council shall formulate the national standards for energy conservation.
对没有前款规定的国家标准的，国务院有关部门可以依法制定有关节能的行业标准，并报国务院标准化行政主管部门备案。
In the absence of the national standards mentioned above, the relevant departments under the State Council may formulate according to law trade standards for energy conservation and submit them to the administrative department for standardization under the State Council for the record.