Green building blueprint: Using renewable energy, protecting the environment and resolving externality

Hongwei Liu, Jun Li and Xun Li

Abstract

The using of renewable energy in building is very important for energy conservation and environmental protection. Because the development of renewable energy building(REB) is affected by increased costs, government policies, consumers’ acceptance. In this paper, authors analyze the external characteristics of renewable energy building by using external economic principles. By analyzing it knows that the government policies play very important role in resolving the external characteristics of renewable energy building and the compensation mechanism economic principles should be used to solve the barrier problems of renewable energy building promotion which has important theoretical significance.