Highlights of the ACEEE National Conference on Energy Efficiency as a Resource

ACEEE i USA håller vartannat år en konferens där man samlar erfarenheter av hur energiföretagen jobbar med effektvisering “som en resurs”. Det vill säga det som man i EU nu vill kalla som “effektivisering först”.

IEA DSM Universitet ordnar ett webinarium med rapportering från den senaste konferensen där ACEEEs Martin Kushler berättar om de bästa bitarna. Det blir ett unikt tillfälle att få titta in i vad EUs Energiunion kan komma att handla om. Och naturligtvis att få impulser till nya affärsmöjligheter. Säga vad man vill om USA men de är mycket uppfinningsrika och experimentlystna. Och ACEEE tillhör föregångarna på området

WEBINAR 17 March 2016 @ 15:00 – 16:00 CET
Title: Highlights of the ACEEE National Conference on Energy Efficiency as a Resource
Register: http://www.leonardo-academy.org/course/details.php?id=409

About the webinar:

The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) conducts, every two years, the ACEEE National Conference on Energy Efficiency as a Resource (EER Conference).  This is widely regarded as the premier conference in the U.S. on the subject of energy efficiency as a utility system resource.  This presentation will describe the history and purpose of this conference, and provide a summary of highlights from the most recent event (held in September 2015), which featured presentations by over 75 experts in the utility energy efficiency program field.  It will also provide information on how to access the presentations from this event as well as prior EER conferences.

Speaker: Dr. Martin Kushler ACEEE

Dr. Martin Kushler is a ‘Senior Fellow’ with the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ACEEE), a non-profit research and policy organization founded in 1980, with headquarters in Washington, D.C.  While at ACEEE he has been Director of the ACEEE Utilities Program for a decade, has conducted many widely acclaimed national studies of utility sector energy efficiency policies and programs, and has helped develop energy efficiency policies in many states.  Dr. Kushler has also been responsible for assembling the conference content for all eight of the ACEEE Energy Efficiency as a Resource conferences, beginning in 2001.
Prior to joining ACEEE, he was Supervisor of Evaluation at the utility regulatory agency (Public Service Commission) in the state of Michigan for nearly ten years.  He has been involved directing research and evaluation regarding energy efficiency and utilities for three decades, has been widely published, and has provided consultation to numerous states and the federal government.  He has also had the pleasure of making presentations at European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (eceee) and CEDEC in the EU in earlier years.

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Då och då kommer det kraftig kritik mot de energiscenarier som till exempel IEA publicerar i sina årliga skrifter. Som senast den här från en organisation som heter Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) och har skrivit en rapport med det klatschiga namnet “Off Track”.

The International Energy Agency has wrongly guided governments into decisions about oil, gas and coal use that are inconsistent with the long-term climate objectives of the Paris Agreement

Men är det sant? Är det IEA som vilseleder? Så här förklarar IEA hur scenarierna konstrueras (jämför med bild nedan)

- New Policies Scenario of the World Energy Outlook broadly serves as the IEA baseline scenario. It takes account of broad policy commitments and plans that have been announced by countries, including national pledges to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and plans to phase out fossil-energy subsidies, even if the measures to implement these commitments have yet to be identified or announced.

- Current Policies Scenario assumes no changes in policies from the mid-point of the year of publication (previously called the Reference Scenario).

- 450 Scenario sets out an energy pathway consistent with the goal of limiting the global increase in temperature to 2°C by limiting concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere to around 450 parts per million of CO2.

Två av de scenarier som presenteras är alltså reflexioner av vad som händer i världen och det som är på väg att hända till följd av de beslut som fattats i olika beslutsorgan (länder, samarbetsorganisationer mm). Det är bilder INTE rekommendationer!

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