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SEMINARIO DI PRESENTAZIONE DEL PROGETTO LAKSSEMINARIO DI PRESENTAZIONE DEL PROGETTO LAKS

Reggio Emilia, 6 Maggio 2009Reggio Emilia, 6 Maggio 2009

IL PROGRAMMA IL PROGRAMMA DESGELDESGEL PER LA DIAGNOSI ENERGETICA PER LA DIAGNOSI ENERGETICA

E LA CONTABILIZZAZIONE DELLE E LA CONTABILIZZAZIONE DELLE

EMISSIONI CLIMALTERANTIEMISSIONI CLIMALTERANTI

Enric CollEnric CollOficina Tècnica de Sensibilització, Oficina Tècnica de Sensibilització, Divulgació i Participació AmbientalDivulgació i Participació Ambiental

SEMINARIO DI PRESENTAZIONE DEL PROGETTO LAKSSEMINARIO DI PRESENTAZIONE DEL PROGETTO LAKS

Reggio Emilia, 6 May 2009Reggio Emilia, 6 May 2009

DESGELDESGEL PROGRAM PROGRAMENERGY DIAGNOSIS ENERGY DIAGNOSIS

AND CLIMATE CHANGE AND CLIMATE CHANGE

EMISSIONS ACCOUNTABILITYEMISSIONS ACCOUNTABILITY

Energy & Climate Change Workgroup

Diputació de Barcelona: Barcelona provincial councilEnvironment Department Sustainability & Climate Change Technical Office Environmental Sensitization, Information & Participation Technical Office

SPAIN

Barcelona Province

CATALONIA Extension: 7,719 Km2

Inhabitants: 5,416,447

Density: 701.7 inhab./km2

Municipalities: 311

DIPUTACIÓ DE BARCELONADIPUTACIÓ DE BARCELONA

Energy & Climate Change Workgroup

THE COVENANT OF MAYORSTHE COVENANT OF MAYORSEU initiative to implicate local governments to achieve Climate Change objectives (20/20/20). THE MAYORS, COMMIT TO:

Go beyond the objectives set by the EU for 2020, through the implementation of a Sustainable Energy Action Plan.

Prepare a baseline emission inventory as a basis for the Plan; and submit it within the following year

Submit an implementation report at least every second year after submission of the Action Plan for evaluation, monitoring and verification purposes;

Organize Energy Days or City Covenant Days

Energy & Climate Change Workgroup

THE COVENANT OF MAYORSTHE COVENANT OF MAYORSDiputació de Barcelona support roleDiputació de Barcelona support roleEnvironment Department offers technical & economic support to local authorities to prepare the Sustainable Energy Action Plan (PAES, Diputació Methodology). 1,5 M € (2008 – 09 Political priority).

More than 80 local authorities sign the Covenant of Mayors and begin

their PAES process (more than 2.600.000 inhabitants (April 2009))

Based on Local Agenda 211. GHG emissions evaluation

USES DESGEL

2. Diagnosis & Strategy3. Action Plan

4. Participation Plan5. Monitoring Plan6. Communication Plan7. Synthesis

Energy & Climate Change Workgroup

Xarxa is a local authorities ASSOCIATION. It works to achieve a Sustainable Development.- Cooperation and information exchange platform. A forum to debate common problems, needs and experiences and working in common interest projects.- Born in 1997. Nowadays, more than 240 local authorities (77% Catalonia population).- Collaborations with Provincia de Chieti, Coordinamento Agende Locale italiane, and others.- Diputació de Barcelona plays a support role holding the Technical Secretary. 5 working groups.

LA XARXA DE CIUTATS I POBLES CAP A LA XARXA DE CIUTATS I POBLES CAP A LA SOSTENIBILITAT LA SOSTENIBILITAT (Network of Cities and Towns towards Sustainability)(Network of Cities and Towns towards Sustainability)

Energy & Climate Change Workgroup

DESGELDESGEL, Programa de DDiagnòstic EEnergètic i SSimulació

de GGasos d’EEfecte d’hivernacle LLocals

(Energy Diagnosis & Local Greenhouse Gases Simulation Program)

-Created under request of the Energy and Climate Change Xarxa working Group, and Environment Department priority (CD version).- Applied in 4 local authorities as a pilot test (Badalona, Mollet del Vallès, Granollers & Sabadell)-Nowadays, more applications (Girona, etc.) and used in Sustainable Energy Action Plan methodology (especial Patch created).

Energy & Climate Change Workgroup

Working for a Working for a common methodologycommon methodology

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ACTION PLAN ► GOALS

ACHIEVEMENTIMPLEMENTATION

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METHODOLOGY APPLICATION (MAIN ACTION ISSUES)

GOALS DEFINITION & MAIN ACTION AREAS

Energy & Climate Change Workgroup

So, what’s DESGEL ? So, what’s DESGEL ? A free software designed for energy diagnosis and GHG emissions evaluation, of a city / town.

1. Evaluate local energy consumption.2. Support on energy and climate change planning.3. Allow implementation and periodic monitoring.4. Analyze significant indicators trends.5. Evaluate main goals achievement on saving, energy

efficiency, renewable energies implementation and greenhouse gases reduction.

An analysis tool to identify the main sectors to apply an Action Plan and monitoring the local energy and GHG emissions behavior and trends.

Energy & Climate Change Workgroup

The conceptual model: 5 issues. The conceptual model: 5 issues. 1. Include local authority energy consumption, and also other local energy consumptions.

2. Useful tool for political and technical decision-makers.

3. Functional city vs. Territorial city concepts.

Territorial model: considers only energy balance within local boundaries.

Functional model: energy balance results of local activities and its effects out local bounds (waste, water…).

4. GHG emissions: excludes forest fires, agriculture and farming and aerosols.

5. Include Municipal System of Sustainable Indicators.

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Results analysisAction Plan elaboration

3rd. Another results

2nd. Automatic calculation: indicators

(257)

1st. Research & introduce the Variables

(333)

How does it work?How does it work?

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• Public & accessible data source (some offered by Diputació itself). However, local authorities must research 45% of the variables.

• Variables units: uniformity, international system, common units for energy (kWh). Sometimes, it needs data pretreatment.

• 3 diagnosis levels: GHG emissions, Energy, Others.

• Excel file import and export. File exchange. Patch creation.

• 333 variables divided in: Key variables (219, 66%) and the rest (114, 34%). For the first level just 20 variables with patch.

• Historical data and comparison between local authorities.

• High effort to introduce data. Importance of actualization.

The variablesThe variables

Energy & Climate Change Workgroup Num. Key

variables Local data 1. General 22 7 8 2. Electric generators (Selfproduction) 65 60 5

3. Electric generation (Ordinary) 14 14 0

4. Electric generation (Others) 19 13 9 5. Distribution nets 4 1 0 6. Housing 17 3 0 7. Services 7 0 0 8. Industrial 10 0 0 9. Transport 16 7 6 10. Municipal 80 54 80 11. Electricity consumption 14 6 0 12. Gas consumption 8 4 0 13. LG from petroleum 6 5 0 14. Water 16 11 2 15. Waste 24 23 1 16. Emission conversion factor 11 11 0

TOTAL 333 219 111

Energy & Climate Change Workgroup

• Every one has a definition spreadsheet.

• Also divided in: Key Indicators (175, 71%), Others (82, 29%).

• Goal indicators (7) highlighted. Local renewable energies production

Renewable energies self supply

Total territorial energy consumption / inhabitant

Functional energy consumption / inhabitant

Public building total energy consumption / inhab.

Energy intensity of local consumption

GHG functional emissions / inhab.

• Flows: it creates diagram for local balance flows.

The indicatorsThe indicators

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• Local energy balance (flow diagram).

• Local authority energy balance.

• Automatic summary reports on main indicators:

• Report 0: Data evaluation.

• Report 1: main goals.

• Report 2: GHG emissions.

• Report 3: energy consumption.

• Report 4: local government.

• Report 5: energy generation (diff. regimes).

ResultsResults

Energy & Climate Change Workgroup

CONCLUSIONSCONCLUSIONS- High amount of variables (333). Hand made introduction. Need all variables to calculate.- Data source actualization needed.- Heavy interface, problems with slow computers.+ Useful as a complement to an energy management program. Have to be seen as an opportunity for the local authority.+ Good analysis tool.+ Includes functional model.+ Identify main GHG emissions sectors.+ Automatic report generator.+ Excel File Exchange. Reports, diagrams and spreadsheets could be used in other formats (.doc, .pdf).+ Common calculation methodology. Allows time & space comparison.

Energy & Climate Change Workgroup

- Applied in 4 local authorities as a pilot test (Badalona, Mollet del Vallès, Granollers & Sabadell)- Current version: DESGEL 2.0- Strengths and weaknesses analysis. - Nowadays, more applications (Girona, etc.) and used in Sustainable Energy Action Plan methodology (especial Patch created). - Preparing new evolved version based on applications know-how (overcome weaknesses).

CONCLUSIONSCONCLUSIONS

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