Transcript Sustainable Energy Overview

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Sustainable Energy Overview
Objective:
Convince the organisation that energy
management is an important issue because:
• Fossil fuels will run out
• Climate change is a result of CO2 emissions due to
burning fossil fuels and deforestation
• Ireland has committed to reduce CO2 emissions under the
Kyoto protocol
• Carbon taxes will be introduced from 2004
• EU and Irish legislation will drive introduction of
sustainable practices
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Agenda
• Energy is finite
• Climate Change
• Sustainability
• Kyoto
• What is a tonne of CO2 ?
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Energy is Finite
2000 BC
1750 AD
2200 AD
6000 AD
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• Most of the earth’s fossil have been used since the
industrial revolution
• Current projection for oil reserves is about 50 years with
about 200 years for coal
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Climate Change ?
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Pied Flycatcher
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Dr. John Sweeney, Dept. of Geography, NUI Maynooth thinks so. He is
studying bird migration. The Pied Flycatcher is a Mediterranean bird now
making it’s home in Ireland
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Sustainability
www.sei.ie
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• “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the
ability of future generations to meet their own needs”
Brundtland Commission definition of sustainability
• Sustainable Energy Ireland (SEI) , formerly the Irish Energy Centre, was
established as a separate statutory body in May 2002 as recommended by
the Irish Green Paper on Sustainable Energy.
• A summary of the Green Paper can be accessed at:
http://www.irlgov.ie/tec/energy/greenpaper/execsum.html
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Kyoto
Fig : Ireland’s CO2 emissions profile from O’Rourke 2003
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Ireland’s Kyoto target for the period 2008 –2012 was breached in 1997. By 2001, annual GHG
emissions were 27% above 1990 levels and projections in the National Climate Change Strategy
indicate that emissions levels may rise to 37% above 1990 levels by 2010 if the country continues on a
‘business as usual’ path. The most significant area of growth is in energy related emissions in particular
since 1995 .
Source: Energy in Ireland 2002 : Trends, issues and indicators 1990-2001, Sustainable Energy Ireland
Statistical Support Unit ,2003
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What’s a tonne of CO2
100W light bulbs
13 bulbs will emit 1 kg of CO2 in one hour
=> 13,000 bulbs will emit a tonne of CO2 in one hour
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What’s a tonne of CO2 ?
2 kg of CO2 will fill your oil tank (1000L)
=> 1 tonne will fill 500 oil tanks
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Taxes
• Ireland is the most energy import dependant country in
Europe at 86%
• A carbon tax will be introduced in Ireland in 2004
• Presently the UK Climate Change Levy (CCL) is
approximately 0.6c/kWh (0.43p/kWh)
• If nothing is done, Ireland will be 13 Mt (million tonnes)
over Kyoto agreed limits
– Based on a projected fine* of €80 per tonne this will translate into
€1 billion !
• projection only as this is currently under review
• Business as usual is not an option – everyone must play
their part
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