G COMMUNITY AWARENESS/BEHAVIOURAL CHANGE e Invite similar Council groups to present & exchange ideas A 2008 1 22 Jul 2008 Sydney Council - Green Transformers Seminar SEMINAR: City Talks 2008 - Green Transformers Showcasing some of the revolutionary ideas developed for the Sustainable Sydney 2030 project, speakers will outline how using localised co-generation and tri-generation can power our city, heat and cool our buildings, and help Sydney lower its greenhouse gas emissions. DATE: Tue 22 Jul 2008 TIME: 18:30 - 20:30 VENUE: Theatre Royal ATTENDANCE: Over 1,000 King Street SYDNEY 2000 AGENDA A Simon MARNIE Master of Ceremonies B Alan OAKLEY Editor Sydney Morning Herald C The Hon Clover MOORE MP Lord Mayor CITY OF SYDNEY D The Hon Verity FIRTH MP Minister for the Environment and Climate Change NSW STATE GOVERNMENT E Allan JONES MBE CEO LONDON CLIMATE CHANGE AGENCY F Bruce TAPER CEO KINESIS PTY LTD Sponsored by 1 City of Sydney 2 NSW Department of Environment and Climate Change 3 Sydney Morning Herald REPORT BY ADELLE WHITE - DRAFT 1 The Theatre Royal was virtually at full capacity (1,133) for this City Talk A Simon MARNIE [SM] SM was a very good master of ceremonies and introduced the topic and speakers very well B Alan OAKLEY [AO] AO explained the SMH Sponsorship for these talks as part of the Sustainable City 2030 C The Hon Clover MOORE MP [CM] CM outlined how this was a follow on from EarthHour 2008 and was very much a Moral issue with 80% of greenhouse gases being derived from the production of Electricity by Powerstations CM outlined how decentralized electricity generation was a key part of Greenhouse Gas emission reduction and how co-generation and tri-generation of electricity can make considerable savings. CM explained that cities like Kula Lumpur, Woking and Helsinki were Leading the way and Sydney could learn from them D The Hon Verity FIRTH MP [VF] VF stated that the NSW Emissions Trading System (ETS) "will change the way our economy operates and is the most significant economic change in our generation. Auction revenue for renewable energy will have a major impact on the State Government financial independence and produce large number of green collar jobs". E Allan JONES MBE [AJ] AJ (Biography) explained a variety of initiatives including 1 establishing 81 decentralised energy units for a population 100,000 2 using solar panels and factory air extractors to power street lights. 3 Setting up fuel cells to combine hydrogen and oxygen to produce water 4 establishing a private wire company for the distribution of electricity to local households and taking Woking off the national Grid 5 75% of Greenhouse gases is from Electricity production hence why a local decentralised co-generation and tri-generation electricity network was implemented for all Woking business and households Allan JONES MBE Power Point Presentation 57 slides 8 MB Extract 1 - 8 slides on Green Energy Supply strategy Extract 2 - 8 slides Decentralised Energy System & Local Energy Internet Extracts from web-page case study 2. Summary While world leaders continue to debate environmental issues on a global scale, a small borough council in leafy Surrey has been tackling global warming locally. Over the past 11 years Woking Borough Council has implemented a series of sustainable energy projects, including 1 the UK's first small-scale combined heat and power (CHP) heating and heat fired absorption cooling system, 2 the first local authority private wire (direct supply to householders) residential CHP and renewable energy systems, 3 the largest domestic integrated photovoltaic/CHP installations, 4 the first local sustainable community energy system, 5 the first fuel cell CHP system and first public/private joint venture Energy Services Company (ESCO). These have resulted in savings of nearly £4.9 million for the Council, and further savings for Householders and businesses in the Borough. Woking is recognised as the most energy efficient local authority in the UK, and in recognition of its pioneering energy services work the Council gained the Queen's Award for Enterprise: Sustainable Development 2001, the only local authority ever to be awarded a Queen's Award for Enterprise. 3. Key facts Since the Council implemented its energy and environmental policies in 1990/91 (the base year), it achieved it's target to reduce energy consumption by 40% in 10 years from 1991/92 to 2000/01. In 2002, the Council's energy efficiency policy was replaced by the Climate Change Strategy for Woking, not just for Council buildings and transport but for the Borough as a whole, shifting the focus from energy savings in kWh's to savings in tonnes of CO2 emissions as well as adapting to Climate Change. The key target from this is to achieve an 80% reduction in Woking's CO2 equivalent emissions of it's 1990 level by 2090, in line with the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution's targets. 4. Achievements (Data) Summary achievements against target over 11 years from 1991/1992 to 2001/2002 - energy and emissions savings from Council buildings and transport: Energy Consumption saving 170,170,665 KWh 43.8% saving Carbon Dioxide CO2 Emissions Savings 96,588 tonnes 71.5% saving Nitrogen Oxides NO Emissions Savings 319 tonnes 68.0% saving Sulphur Dioxide SO2 Emissions Savings 977 tonnes 73.4% saving Water Consumption Savings 340,011,000 litres 43.8% saving Savings in Energy and Water Budgets 4,889,501 BPS 34.3% saving 5. Potential for replication To get a rough estimate of the potential impact in the South East region if all Local Authorities introduced similar measures to Woking, households have been used as a proxy. Woking has 40,027 households compared to a total of 3,388,838 households in the rest of the region (2002 ACORN figures), giving a multiplication factor of 84.7 to arrive at regional estimates. CATEGORY SAVING WOKING-11 YRS POTENTIAL SAVINGS IN SOUTH-EAST Energy Consumption saving 170,170,665 KWh 14,414 GWh Carbon Dioxide CO2 Emissions Savings 96,588 tonnes 8,181,000 tonnes Nitrogen Oxides NO Emissions Savings 319 tonnes 27,000 tonnes Sulphur Dioxide SO2 Emissions Savings 977 tonnes 82,700 tonnes Water Consumption Savings 340,011,000 litres 28,799,000 ml Savings in Energy and Water Budgets 4,889,501 BPS 414,141,000 BPS 6. Opportunities and barriers Woking regards climate change as a reality that cannot be ignored, and sees local authorities having a key role to play in setting ambitious but achievable targets. The various national and international targets that have been set are all likely to be inadequate, and if strong action is not taken to reduce greenhouse gases over the next 30 years there will be an irreversible effect on the global climate. Already weather patterns have become more extreme with high winds, floods and high temperatures affecting Woking and many other parts of the UK, and there has been a blurring of seasonal changes in recent years. The Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution has predicted that the target reduction in greenhouse gases, expressed as CO2 equivalent emissions, should be 60% by 2050 and 80% by 2100. These targets have been adopted by Woking's Climate Change Strategy. Having been pioneers in this field it is now possible for others to learn from Woking's experience. For example the outcome of a decade of innovative work was the formation of an Energy and Environmental Services Company called Thameswey Ltd to take forward the work. The key concept of this is the provision of energy services (i.e heating, cooling, lighting and power etc) rather than just electricity or gas. Thameswey is wholly owned by Woking Borough Council and it works by entering into public/private joint ventures to deliver energy and other environmental strategies and targets. Although green electricity tends to be more expensive than conventional 'brown' energy, Thameswey can be competitive by the sale of heating, cooling and electricity directly to the customer. Locally supplied combined heat and power (CHP) can provide efficiencies of up to 90%, in comparison with the central power stations/national grid system which can be as little as 22% efficient at the point of use due to thermal energy wasted at power stations and losses in the grid. Although Woking has avoided incurring penalty costs by utilising private wire networks and a local trading system, the existing regulatory regime limits the size of the local sustainable energy system and also the number of domestic customers that can be supplied with low cost green energy. This in turn limits the number of fuel poor households which could be provided with affordable energy. Locally embedded generation could supply all of the country's energy needs, and Woking argues that what is needed is a progressive move towards this goal. A key easy step for the government would be to increase the supply limits for local exempt suppliers to supply more customers, particularly domestic customers, with local sustainable and renewable energy. F Bruce TAPER [BP] BP explained some of the projects that Sydney was considering[ Home ] [ Index-SAN ] [ Index - Trp ] [ Index - Wtr ] [ Index - Egy ] [ Index - Bvy ] [ Index - Bld ] [ Index - Wst ] [ Index - Cbh ] [ Sponsorship ] [ Copyright ]