Energy-safe Cities

Sustainable Energy for Future and for All:
Experiences from
Urban Energy Transition
12 May 2015, Melaka
15th International Convention on Melaka Twin Cities
Emani Kumar,
ICLEI Deputy Secretary General and Regional Director-ICLEI South Asia
Secreteriat
Image Credit: http://thesolutionsproject.org
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Introducing ICLEI-Local Governments for
Sustainability (ICLEI)
• An international city network established in 1990 that advances local
sustainability.
• ICLEI‟s mission is “to build and serve a worldwide movement of local
governments to achieve tangible improvements in global sustainability
with special focus on environmental conditions through cumulative local
actions.”
• 1000+ members in 86 countries, representing 660 million people in
mega-cities, super-cities, urban regions, large cities, small and mediumsized cities & towns. Also States / Provinces as members.
• Main activities:
(i) Support our members with technical expertise, tools, guidance.
(ii) Facilitate city peer exchange, support networking.
(iii) Operate global processes
(iv) Conduct international advocacy and representation.
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Offices around the world
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Sustainable Energy for All
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Launched in September 2011 by UN Secretary-General Ban Kimoon to mobilize action from all sectors of society in support of
three interlinked objectives by 2030
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Buildings
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District Energy
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Sustainable Energy for All
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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon hosted the Climate Summit 2014 at UN
headquarters in New York on 23 September.
Inviting world leaders from public and private sector to bring bold
announcements and actions to the Summit that will reduce emissions,
strengthen climate resilience, and mobilize political will for a meaningful
legal agreement in 2015.
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Urban Energy is Key in Unlocking
Potential
• While cities occupy only 3% of global land area!
• Urban energy use projected to increase upto 75-80% by 2030
• Cities provide a number of high impact opportunities for
advancing RE and EE
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Efficient procurement practices in municipal services and infrastructure
Retrofit of commercial, residential and public/municipal buildings
Stringent building codes and appliance energy efficiency standards
Use of rooftops for solar technologies and cool roof techniques
Deployment of smart grids and grid integrated RE systems
Sources:
IPCC Fifth Assessment Report; EEA (2015): Towards a more urban world; http://www.un.org/wcm/webdav/site/sustainableenergyforall/shared/Documents/SEFAAction%20Agenda-Final.pdf
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Cities recognize the Need for Action
• Energy and climate action plans are being developed in many cities
Sources: Working Group 3 Contribution to IPCC Fifth Assessment Report
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Challenges for Sustainable/Smart Energy
in Cities
• Disparity in investments in fossil fuel compared to renewables
• Limited local government capacity and availability of finance
• Goals must be linked to financing options and suitable policy
frameworks
• Varying degree of control over energy generation and
distribution assets by local governments
• Constraints in scaling up renewable energy supply to meet the
growing energy demand due to improved access and incomes
• Time-lags in achieving commercial viability of technological
solutions and build-up of manufacturing capacities
• Adequate and simultaneous development of supporting
infrastructure
Source: Summary of REN21 RENEWABLES ACADEMY, Bonn, 2014
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Key Enablers to Aid the Transition
Tiered and integrated local approach
Assess long term local resource availability and encourage their phased RE and EE utilization;
factor in local institutional and governance framework and existing infrastructure
Transformative local and national policy framework and instruments
Leverage resources and create enabling mechanisms at local and national level such as feed-in-tariff,
net metering, building codes, domestic manufacturing, municipal bonds, labelling & standards
Economics
Build a case for affordability and risk-free financing for RE& EE- RESCOs/ESCOs, priority lending
Political willingness
Leadership for supporting policy transformation and infrastructure creation
Awareness and engagement
Sensitize and create a sense of responsibility to trigger mass scale engagement within the civil society
Source: Hafen City University Hamburg and World Future Council Foundation (2010): 100% Renewable Energy - and Beyond - for Cities
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Involving Cities in SE for All
• Local focus:
Climate
change
mitigation
Resilient
energy
systems
Use of ICT
Resource
efficiency
Skills
development
Local
renewables
Local job
creation
Smart grids &
systems
Local benefits
• Value for local governments:
Capacity building – policy and technology
Access to information, knowledge, and a thematic network supported by experts
Practical support to project implementers for demonstration projects
Visibility and promotion of the leaders
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ICLEI’s role is to support cities in SE for All
• ICLEI is the main city partner in both the District Energy in
Cities initiative and in the Building Energy Efficiency
Accelerator, working closely with the other partners.
• Support for local governments:
– Information and knowledge sharing
– Building capacity
– Step-by-step guidance to develop enabling policies
– Policy and technical support
– City twinning / exchange system to share experiences
among peers.
– Explore relevant financial mechanisms to help local
governments find suitable financing models
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A Global Initiative
to Unlock the Potential of
Energy Efficiency and
Renewable Energy
In collaboration with:
Impact of Leapfrogging to Modern District Energy Systems
Savings on
electricity bills
increase
purchasing
power
Free power
generation
capacity for
development
Meet Tomorrow‟s Energy Needs
by
Leapfrogging to Modern District
Energy Systems Today!
Reduce CO2
emissions &
mitigate
climate
change
Accelerate
economic
developmen
t
The Saldanha Industry Development Zone in South Africa
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District Energy Action Modules
Module 1
• Strengthen Capacities of City Planners and Policymakers to
Develop, Manage and Implement DE strategies
Module 2
• Integrated Energy Planning and Targets
Module 3
• Geospatial Energy Infrastructure Mapping
Module 4
• Site Specific Feasibility Studies
Module 5
• Policy and Investment Roadmap
Module 6
• Training on Business/Finance Models for Selected Sites
Module 7
• Implementation guidelines and technical standards
Module 8
• Peer to Peer Capacity Building through City Twinning
Module 9
• Establishment of Knowledge Management Tools
Module 10
• MRVs and Outreach (on results/leadership etc.)
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Building Efficiency Accelerator
NGOs / Associations
WRI / ICLEI / UNEP
US Green Building Council
World Green Building Council
3GF (Global Green Growth Forum)
TERI / REEEP / The Climate Group
Alliance to Save Energy / IIEC
Global Buildings Performance
Network
Clean Energy Solutions Center
Companies
Danfoss
Philips
Saint-Gobain
China Energy Conservation and Environmental
Protection Group (CECEP)
Alstom
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What are cities signing up to?
With the help of the Building Efficiency Accelerator
partners:
• Commit to doubling the rate of building energy efficiency
by 2030 in targeted sectors within their jurisdiction.
• Implement one enabling policy and one demonstration
project to be announced at COP21 in Paris.
• Create a baseline of building energy efficiency
performance, agreeing to track and report annual progress,
and sharing experiences and best practices with other
governments.
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Buildings: Policy Menu of Options
Codes
• Building codes to establish minimum requirements of
energy performance
Targets
• Targets to align interests and spur action in the building
sector
Leadership
• Leadership programs and campaigns to recognize and
promote actions in energy efficiency
Benchmarking &
Disclosure
• Policies that generate data, baselines, and disclosure to
support transparent building performance to the market
Financial
Mechanisms
• Programs and incentives to provide funding to building
efficiency improvements
Utility Programs
• Actions and programs for utility companies for energy
efficiency progress
Certifications
• Certifications including green buildings that allow
market differentiation of key environmental attributes
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ICLEI Experiences: Integrating Local
Renewables in Cities
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LR South – South Cooperation
“Local Renewables: South-south cooperation between cities in India,
Indonesia and South Africa”
• LR „model communities‟: Ekurhuleni and Yogyakarta
• South-South exchange: learning from relevant developing country
examples with similar contexts
• Combining ICLEI‟s LR approach with Solar Cities programme
approach
Coimbatore – Ekurhuleni – Yogyakarta
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LR South-South Co-operation: Project
Activities
Over 18 months, Coimbatore, Ekurhuleni and Yogyakarta exchanged
knowledge and experiences to successfully adopt the Local
Renewables initiative through:
• Milestone process
• Long term action planning
• Identifying potential for improving service delivery
• Catalyzing the community
• Transforming into Solar Cities
0. Motivation
1. Assessment
2.Target
Setting
5. Monitoring
and reporting
4.
Implementation
3. Action
planning
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Indian Solar Cities Programme
• 50+ cities are now a part of
the programme
• Detailed Action Plan to be
prepared targeting 10%
reduction
in
energy
baseline over 5 years
• 4 model cities - receive
implementation support
• 10 pilot cities receive
partial
implementation
support
Energy status – Reduction target – Action plan – implementation –
Monitoring: LR – inspired process
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Assisting Indian Solar Cities Programme
CHAMOLI GOPESHWAR
GURGAON
AGRA
KOHIMA
HOWRAH
RAJKOT
IMPHAL
AIZAWL
THANE
BHUBANESWAR
KALYAN DOMBIVLI
NAGPUR
COIMBATORE
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SunShot Solar Outreach Partnership –
USA
ICLEI USA in partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and
the International City-County Management Association (ICMA)
Increase the use and integration of solar energy technologies in
communities across the country through
• Conducting outreach and sharing best practices for increasing
solar energy use with thousands of local governments across the
nation
• Working in partnership with industry experts and national
membership associations to enable local governments across the
United States to expand their local solar markets
• Providing information in relevant areas, such as solar policies and
regulations, financial incentives, workforce training, and utility
and community engagement.
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Urban Low Emission Development
Strategies (Urban-LEDS) Project
• Main Objective: To enhance and promote low-emission urban
development strategies in the city planning process
• Partners: European Union, UN-Habitat
• Main outputs and outcomes
– Local Governments‟ political commitment to low emission urban
development.
– Increase Local Government´s capacity for the integration of a low
emission focus in their development strategies, policies and plans.
– Optimized tools to support cities in defining, implementing, and
monitoring Urban-LEDS.
– Measurable, Reportable, Verifiable (MRV) Local climate action data.
– Integration of local action with national and global climate initiatives and
processes.
– Reduce the rate of rise in GHG emissions cities in emerging economy
countries.
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Urban-LEDS: Target Regions
• Target regions: Working with 8 Model and 20+ Satellite Cities in Brazil, India,
Indonesia and South Africa and guided by select European Cities
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Urban-LEDS: Project Activities
• Commitments secured and institutional structures setup
• Participatory approach to understand and reorient urban
priorities
• Implementation in Cities
‒ Energy baselines prepared for project
cities
‒ LED Street lighting
‒ Exploring financing models such as ESCO
‒ Energy centres/parks and awareness
generation
‒ Solar rooftop systems in schools, public
and private buildings
‒ Decentralized Wastewater Treatment
System to generate biogas
‒ Energy Efficiency in Water Supply
‒ Solar water heaters bye-laws/ordinance
Assess
frameworks
Identify
priorities
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Commit
& mobilize
Develop
action plan
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4
I.
Analyze
1
II.
Act
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Enhance
III.
Accelerate
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Evaluate
& report
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5
Prepare
& approve
6 Implement
policies
& actions
Monitor
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Energy-safe Cities East Asia Program
• Build a local vision for Energy-safe Cities in East Asia with
100% renewable energy by 2030
• Build detailed energy-safe transition scenarios through
local scenario workshops in each participating city
• Build a national, regional, and international network of
energy-safe cities with 100% renewable energy
Energy-safe Cities: Eleven Local Governments
in East Asia
Energy-safe Cities: Project Activities
ICLEI , Knowledge Partners, Local and Regional Experts, Businesses
East
Asian
Cities
First
Stage
Second
Stage
Expert
Symposium
Local
Scenario
Workshops
in Cities
October 2014
~ 26 months
Energysafe
Cities
Network
Symposiu
m
Cities Share
Scenarios
(December 2016)
Third
Stage
Preparation
of Strategic
Paths for
Goal 2030
~ 12 months
Energysafe Cities
Goal 2030
Conferen
ce
Cities
Announce
Strategic
Paths for
Goal 2030
(December 2017)
Goal 2030
100%
Renewable
Energy-safe
Cities
Towards a new paradigm
• Partnerships with the Global 100% RE Network and
Renewable Cities Programme to facilitate and foster
the progress towards 100% Renewable Energy
among local governments
• To inspire change, promote 100% RE target setting,
strengthen and support local governments in achieving
sustainable fossil-free energy future
• To provide a platform for knowledge exchange,
engagement and policy dialogue
• To speed up the development of a clearly defined
roadmap towards 100% RE
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Thank You!
Emani Kumar, ICLEI Deputy Secretary General and
Regional Director-ICLEI South Asia Secreteriat
E-Mail: emani.kumar@iclei.org
Websites: www.iclei.org
www.southasia.iclei.org
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