Societal implications of sustainable energy action plans: from energy modelling to stakeholder learning

Clean and affordable supply of energy is one of the goals among the 17 sustainable development goals. In developing nations like India the fast development in clean and sustainable energy would allow creating evaluation of the Integrated Sustainable Energy Model scenarios in the context of energy a win-win situation for ensuring the rural energy security, mitigating the impact of rising fossil-fuel cost on the economy and avoid the negative implications of exhausting natural resources and ensure the rural energy security. Therefore, there is substantial scope for the exploitation of renewable energy technologies in bridging this gap by providing affordable and clean energy to the poor to meet their lighting, cooking, and thermal needs. The huge potential for the renewable energy mainly lies in local projects, so there’s need to adopt bottomup energy modelling approaches. Energy modelling at block level is highly influential rather than modelling for one village as the block consists of approximately 80-90 villages. Hence the current study emphasizes on energy planning and scenarios modelling for Gadhinglaj block which consists of 93 villages using LongRange Energy Alternatives Planning system (LEAP) tool. The main objective of the study is to develop Integrated Sustainable Energy Model scenarios for Gadhinglaj block also requirement, Social cost and benefit, and their environmental impact. Survey method is used to collect the data. The main output of this research is the development of alternative renewable energy options under different conditions for Gadhinglaj up to 2030.

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Integrating sustainable energy action plans for island municipalities: Case study of Korcula

Thermal Science ◽

10.2298/tsci151127109m ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 20 (4) ◽

pp. 1037-1048 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Nikola Matak ◽

Goran Krajacic ◽

Ana Pilato

Keyword(s):

Energy Consumption ◽

Co2 Emissions ◽

Sustainable Energy ◽

Integrated Approach ◽

Road Transport ◽

Action Plans ◽

The European Union ◽

Tertiary Sector ◽

Emissions Inventory ◽

Economy Of Scale

The goal of the European Union is to reduce CO2 emissions by 20% till 2020. This objective is transferred to municipalities through the Covenant of Mayors initiative which was established by the European Commission in 2008. In line with this, this paper presents an integration of Sustainable Energy Action Plans on the Croatian island of Korcula. This was developed through a methodology that uses factors, derived from the statistic, that have an influence on the energy consumption. Energy consumption and the Baseline CO2 emissions inventory for municipalities on Korcula in the public sector, households, tertiary sector and road transport are calculated. Total CO2 emissions for listed sectors in baseline 2012 are 42,923 tCO2, and with recommended actions and measures this can be reduced by approx. 22% till 2020. There are planned joint actions, so all municipalities on the island can cooperate together to maximise their limited financial and human capacities. There has been suggested the establishment of action group for actions implementation which will include representatives from municipalities and other stakeholders. Investments for measures in household sector in joint and individual approach was compared and it was concluded that achieving economy of scale with an integrated approach would accelerate their implementation. The integrated approach enables small neighbouring municipalities to develop one strategy and act together towards achieving goals taken by submitting to the Covenant of Mayors.

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