hall mr12ab wednesday 09h15 - dr rebecca maserumule

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ENERGY EFFICIENCY INDICATORS

(Foundation of EE Policy Development)

NCPC-SA Industrial Efficiency Conference22 July 2015

Dr Rebecca MaserumuleIndustrial Energy Efficiency Specialist

Directorate: Energy Efficiency Initiatives

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Outline• The Big Picture

– What are Energy Management Programmes?– What are the draft Regulations on Reporting on Energy Use?

• Energy Efficiency Indictors– What are Indicators?– Why are Energy Efficiency Indicators important for policy

development?– What are Energy Efficiency Indicators?– Why is the Industrial Sector Important?– What are EE Indicators in the Industrial Sector

• Improving data collection to inform policy development– What are the barriers?– What are recommendations for improving data collection?

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Energy Management Programme

• Energy Management Programmes are government led initiatives to promote energy management systems.

• Energy Management Systems are a means by which organisations establish necessary to achieve operational control and continual improvement of energy performance.

Source: International Energy Agency, Institute of Industrial Productivity, 2012

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Draft Regulations

• Draft Regulations Regarding, Reporting on Energy Management and Submission of Energy Management Plans were published for public comments in March 2015.

• Support the development and analysis of indicators for the Energy Efficiency Monitoring System to track energy efficiency trends in South AfricaSource: Reinaud, Goldberg and Rozite, 2012

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What is an indicator?An indicator is a defined metric used to monitor changes. Indicators can be absolute (e.g. total populations) or relative (e.g. GDP/per capita)• Population : 54 million

(2014 estimate)• GDP (PPP): 725,004 billion

(2015)• GDP/per capita: $13, 215

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Why EE Indicators are important?

IEA, World Energy Outlook Special Report (Climate and Energy) 2015

EE is a growing policy priority for many countries and hence it is important to develop and maintain well founded indicators to better inform policy making. Information gained from these indicators will help policy makers to set EE targets and track progress towards these targets.

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What are EE Indicators?

EE Indicators are an important tool for analysing the interactions among economic and human activities, energy use and CO2 emissions.

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Why is the industrial sector important?

• Principle One: Do not collect statistics for the sake of collecting statistics; collect only what is necessary.

• Principle Two: Identify which data already exist before embarking on a costly collection programme.

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Industrial EE Indicators

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Barriers to Effective Indicators• Data Issues– There is not a single “true” indicator of energy intensity

for an industry.– Global studies on industries while confidential are often

limited to the main producers in industrialised countries and hence created a bias in favour of the more efficient plants, which can overestimate the industry’s average energy efficiency.

– An accurate analysis of energy efficiency using physical indicators requires good quality disaggregated energy and physical production data.

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Barriers to Effective Indicators• Methodological Issues: Energy use in industrial subsectors

is complex. Even when necessary data are available it is often not straight forward to calculate consistent and comparable indicators that are useful for policy analysis.– Aggregation Levels: Determines the extent to which structural

differences affect the results observed.– Boundaries: For a consistent analysis across countries, it is

necessary to use common boundary definitions for each sub sector.

– Allocation: The treatment of waste and auto-production of heat and electricity.

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Recommendations

• Establishment of an adequate data framework is a first step in harmonising data collection efforts. Existing programmes such as PSEE and NCPC-SA are critical in ensuring that the outputs of energy audits conducted under these programmes can assist companies in complying with regulations.

• Standardize definitions across all sectors.• Sector wide agreement on the EE indicators which

are most relevant and meaningful to measure progress.

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Thank You

Rebecca.maserumule@energy.gov.za012 406 7845