Lauri Hietaniemi / 07.03.2007 Regions for economic change – Brussels 7-8 March 2007 Some Aspects of Improving Energy Efficiency (EE) and Increasing the.

Lauri Hietaniemi / 07.03.2007

Regions for economic change – Brussels 7-8 March 2007

Some Aspects of Improving Energy Efficiency (EE) and Increasing the Use of Renewables in the Housing Sector in North Europe

Dr. Lauri Hietaniemi, Managing Director, Green Net Finland


Green Net Finland – Networking organization

• Mission: to develop networking, businesses, projects and know-how of environmental technology

• Has the status of Center of Expertise 12/2006 from Finnish government in the national environmental technology (includes energy efficiency) cluster


Members of Green Net

• Public sector:

• Cities

• Universities

• Research Centers

• Companies

• International co-operation agreements in Baltic Countries, Russia, Ukraine and in Nordic Countries


Some EE Activities of Green Net

• Center of Expertise 2007-2013• Keeping International EE Portal www.esprojects.com• Published Green Energy from Finland DVD for Experts

www.greennetfinland.fi• Implemented Several Market Studies and Other

Projects in New Member States• Co-ordinates Nordic project NETS (2006-2008), which

will combine and market clean energy solutions from Nordic countries


Expertise clusters in Finland

HealthBio – Cluster of Health Care: Kuopio, Oulu, Metropolitan, Tampere, Turku

Cluster of Well Being: Kuopio, Oulu,Metropolitan, Tampere

Food Development:Kuopio, Metropolitan, Seinäjoki, Turku

Energy Technology of the Future: Joensuu, Jyväskylä, Vaasa, Pori ja Tampere

Local IT Solutions:Jyväskylä, Oulu, Pori, Metropolitan, Tampere

Digital Contents:Hämeenlinna, Metropolitan, Tampere, Kouvola

Turism:Metropolitan, Rovaniemi, Savonlinna, Turku

Sea Cluster:Lappeenranta, Pori, Turku, Vaasa, Raahe

Nano- , Micro Systems and Active materials:Joensuu, Jyväskylä, Kokkola, Mikkeli, Oulu, Metropolitan, Tampere

Intelligent Machinery:Hyvinkää, Hämeenlinna, Lappeenranta, Seinäjoki, Tampere

Forest Industry in the Future:Joensuu, Jyväskylä, Kajaani, Kokkola, Mikkeli, Lappeenranta , Turku

Expertise Cluster of Housing:Joensuu, Hämeenlinna, Lahti, Metropolitan

Environmental technology cluster:Kuopio, Lahti, Oulu, Helsinki metropolitan area (Green Net Finland)

The Programme of Expertise 2007-2013 aims R&D co-operation between companies and reseach groups (universities and research centers) to develop know-how, products and services for global markets


Environmental Technology Expertise Programme of the Helsinki Metropolitan Area

Activities 2007-2013:

1. Environmental monitoring2. Energy efficiency in urban environment (planning model for cities, cases

on new real estate areas, promotion of exports)3. New solutions of energy and fuels for urban transport4. Development of oil spill prevention technology5. Supporting SMEs in exporting environmental technology products and

services


Main EU Legislation of EE on Housing Sector

• End-use Efficiency & Energy Services, EEES (2006/32/EC)-opens markets, audits, service for consumers

• Energy Efficiency in Buildings, EPBD (2002/91/EC)- minimum EE requirements for buildings

• Eco-Design of Energy-Using Products, EuP – will save energy in planning phase of different products

• Energy Labelling of Domestic Appliances- helps customers to save energy

• Combined Heat and Power(2004/8/EC)- promotes EE in energy production phase

> There is a goal to increase EE by 20% before 2020


Status and findings of EE legislation in EU

• Implementation is mainly in starting phase in member states after long preparation work. Do we have relevant monitoring system to measure real energy savings of housing within EU?

• At the same time EU has decided to reach new and more challenging targets (-20% until 2020) to decrease emissions of green house gases. Will this later cause additional requirements in EE of housing?

• In member states targets will be extremely hard to reach in the years 2010-2020. Probably targets will be unrealistic, because implementation period will be too short to reach desired changes vs live time of buildings and energy production plants


Source: Jaccard et. Al 1997

Time Scales and Investments Urban Design /Re-design Space 1000x m

Infrastructure Projects

100x m

Equipment (e.g. Motor Vehicles)

10x m Years ~10 ~50 100+

Source:Jaccard et. al 1997


Some challenges to meet

So far when we have saved energy in building technology, also other effects took place:

- Average living area m2/person in apartments and houses is growing

- Better indoor air quality increases energy consumption- Increasing distances from work to home will cause

additional energy consumption in transport- EE efficiency is not yet an essential part of city planning,

where we in fact decide to use a lot of energy- Rising standards of living will cause extra consumption of

energy also in homes


Global technological solutions for CO2 mitigation

• Significant energy efficiency gains are possible in transport, industry and buildings • Decarbonisation of the power-generation is possible by using more nuclear power,

renewables, efficient use of natural gas, clean coal with CO2 capture and storage (CCS), hydrogen and fuel cells

• Source: IEA

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The Energy Saving Potential of Housing in Finland

(potential % in all energy saving potentials)

- Heat pumps for buildings where now direct electrical heating (25 %)

- Decreasing electricity consumption of equipments, lighting and pumps, better automation (15 %)

- Tight EE principles when public sector is buying technology (2 %)

- Low energy building concept in insulation of new buildings and in retrofitting old houses (6 %)

Source: Virtaa tulevaisuuteen, The work of several leading experts to Finnish WWF 2007


Potential to Produce Energy from

Renewables in Finland (potential % in all energy saving potentials)

- At the moment 24 % of primary energy (29 % of electricity) is coming from renewables, possible to double mainly by using wood-based biofuels, biogas and solid waste in CHP plants until 2020. (59% saving potential of all renewable methods)

- Also important possibilities are wind power (14 %) , pellets (8 %) and solar panels and bio heating of small houses (11 %)

- Bio fuel potential in cars is also considerable (7 %)- Hydropower in small plants (1 %)

Source: Virtaa tulevaisuuteen, The work of several leading experts to Finnish WWF 2007


Countries in Different PositionFINLAND

• Proposal for A-class building Energy consumption in new Finnish certificate 130 kwh/m2/a

• Possible to reach 50 in 20 years with very modern technology

• Problem is to find labour force for building operations

• Best way to proceed is to add more R&D capital for EE research work of housing

• Important is that public sector could provide realistic EE alternatives for house holders, owners and companies, when they decide investments

• Auditing work lead by Motiva has been very profitable since 10 years

• The big energy companies could use more of their huge returns for investments in EE and renewables

BALTIC COUNTRIES

• In Baltic countries 200-300 (A lot of Soviet time buildings without isolation)

• Possible to reach 150 even with conventional technology

• Main problem to find capital for investments (limited ability of municipalities to finance public investments)

• Energy saving agreements (also ESCO) have a big potential

• Energy auditing will be important in future since not yet started in many new member states


Conclusions

• If economy will grow, we need more radical instruments than used today to save energy in housing in Europe. One idea could be higher energy bills for houses/departments which exceed determined living areas/persons (like heavy cars)

• We need short term and long term strategies to save energy in housing. Targets until 2020 are not enough.

• More R&D money to EE of housing• More funding resources for new member states• The potential of renewables varies a lot in different

member states


Green Net Finland ry Managing Director, Lauri HietaniemiGSM +358 40 5532764E-mail [email protected]

Energy Expert Herkko LehdonvirtaGSM +358 405028300E-mail [email protected]

Contact

Thank you for Your Attention

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