Dr Karine MelikidzeDirector at Sustainable Development and Policy(SDAP) Center www.sdap.gekmelikidze@sdap.ge

One of the former Soviet Republics.

Land boundaries: 1,461 km–Russia 723 km–Azerbaijan 322 km–Turkey 252 km–Armenia 164 km

• Capital – Tbilisi • Official language – Georgian• Government – Unitary• semi-presidential republic• Legislature – Parliament• Total Area - 69,700 km 2 • Population – 4 483,8 (2013 estimate)

2

Energy Statistics:

Approximate Annual Electricity Consumption: 10 billion kWh

Approximate Annual Gas Consumption 1.5 billion m3

Economic Statistics:

GDP (PPP):o total - $26 094 billion (2012)o Per capita - $5 803

•GDP (Nominal):o total - $15 829,7 billion (2012)o Per capita - $3 519,6

In Georgia the buildings sector accounts for over 40% of energy consumption in country’s energy balance. Buildings, especially the residential ones, are the biggest energy (and money) wasters and largest sources of greenhouse gas emissions in the country;

For the buildings sector new national construction standardization documents (codes) have not been adopted yet. The first draft of the new Georgian Construction codes that will reflect energy efficiency in buildings it is anticipated in December 2013.

In 2007 Georgia has adopted Law on House ownership, that lays down foundation for forming HOA management.

4

In 2012 Georgia requested assistance of UNECE for development of a national action plan on energy efficiency of the housing sector, that had been approved.

The 4 -the International Forum: Energy for Sustainable Development followed by the National workshop, took place in September in Tbilisi as UNECE‘s direct response to the official request of Government of Georgia aiming at outlining a major situation and support activities for a EE Action plan for housing sector.

In 2011 Tbilisi City Hall signed Covenant of Mayors Initiative, a step which led to development of the Buildings sector Sustainable Energy Action Plan(SEAP) for Tbilisi City with the helping hand of the USAID NATELI/ SDAP Center.

5

Development of National strategy (plan) for energy efficiency that will

outline priority areas:

Laws and regulations Financial mechanisms (policy, schemes, capability of the banking sector, etc.)Management and rehabilitation of housing stockImprovement of technical capacitiesRising public awareness of citizens

6

The overall strategy for the buildings sector SEAP in Tbilisi was set up aiming at reduction of greenhouse gas emissions through the sustainable use of energy resources and reduction of the overall energy consumption.

Underlying assumption that led to setting this goal is as follows: - huge heat losses in winter since the main part of targeted building

stock subsectors were built during the Soviet era.

Two target subsectors:- municipal buildings-residential buildings

7

Action plan rehabilitation measures:

- upgrading/insulation of building envelopes;

- installation of modern energy efficient heating systems;

- replacement of incandescent bulbs with fluorescent ones;

- implementation of pilot “low energy consumption buildings” projects;

- utilization of “renewable energy resources” for heating and domestic hot

water supply purposes.

8

creating an enabling policy/regulation environment providing opportunities for setting up financial support setting up best practice examples (pilot projects) generating citizens support directly engaging citizens in energy efficiency implementation process engaging various parties into SEAP activities

9

10

For residential buildings

For municipal buildings

11

For municipal buildings

For residential buildings

12

SECTORS& fields

of action

 

KEY actions/measures

per field of action

 

Expected energy saving per measure[MWh/a]

 

Expected renewable energy production per measure[MWh/a]

Expected CO2 reduction per measure [t/a]

 

Energy saving targetper sector [MWh]

in 2020

Local renewable energy production targetper sector [MWh]

in 2020

CO2Reduction targetper sector [t] in 2020

Municipal buildings, equipment/facilities 

Action 1: installation of central heating systems Action 2: Installation of efficient lighting system Action 3. Refurbishment of residential buildings structure Action 4. Use of renewable sources for hot water supply purposes

 

1:1055

2:1147.5

3: 3642.95

 

1: 6305.3

4. 189

 

1: 1482.9

2: 447.9

3: 753.8

4: 753.8

 

Residential buildings

 

Action 1: installation of central heating systems Action 2: Installation of efficient lighting system Action 3. Refurbishment of residential buildings structure Action 4. Use of renewable sources for hot water supply purposes

 

2: 29410

3: 698381

1: 6305.3

4. 1050

 

1: 1225.5

2: 11730

3.141659.6

4:.210

   

733,636 13,849.60

165,998

13

Multi-apartment 9-storyed single entrance residential building built in 1978 consists of two identical units A and B connected to each other by the staircase.

Building has been selected by Tbilisi municipality, since it is considered to implement heat insulation in one of the units with the objective of comparing actual results of heat consumption between the heat insulated unit and the unit without heat insulation.

It is planned to monitor heat consumption and compare the data with the energy audit data.

14

Proposed energy saving activities1 Heat insulation of walls2 Heat insulation of roof (floor of attic)3 Heat insulation of floor (ceiling of basement)

4 Installation of new metal plastic double glazed windows5 Implementation of space heating and solar HWS system

Proposed energy saving activities1 Installation of metal plastic double glazed windows2. Implementation of space heating and solar HWS system

15

Energy saving potential (unit A)

Energy saving 244,791 kWh/yearNet saving 44,713/ 20,143 [GEL/ € year]Investments into energy saving* 387,864 / 174,729 [GEL/ €]Payback period 8.7 years

Energy saving potential (unit B)

Energy saving 143,829 kWh/year

Net saving 37,662/ 16,967 [GEL/ € year]

Investments into energy saving* 317,873 / 143,199 [GEL/ €]

Payback period 8.4 years

16

Energy saving potential (unit А)

Residential building in Temka sub-district (unit A) Heated area: 1,674 m²Energy efficient activities Investment Saving Payback NPVQ

  [GEL /€] [kWh per year] [GEL /€ year] [year] *1. Heat insulation of walls 52,265/

23,545

63,904 5,110/

2,302

10.1 0.03

2. Heat insulation of roof (floor of attic) 5,293/

2,384

15,499 754/

340

7.0 0.38

3. Heat insulation of floor (ceiling of basement) 3,875/

1,746

21,353 1,039/

468

3.7 1.6

4. Installation of new windows 16,431/

7,402

17,911 1,672/

753

9.8 0.06

5. Installation of heating system and solar HWS system

310,000/

139,652

126,124 36,138/

16,280

8.6 0.05

Total 387,864 /

174,729

244,791 44,713/

20,143

8.7

17

Energy saving potential (unit B)Residential building in Temka sub-district (unit B) Heated area: 1,491 m²

 Energy efficient activities Investment Saving Payback NPVQ

  [GEL /€] [kWh per year] [GEL /€ year] [year] *1. Installation of new windows 16,467/

7,418

 

22,521 1,758/

792

9.4 0.09

2.. Installation of heating system and solar HWS system

301,406/

135,781

121,308 35,904/

16,175

8.6 0.08

Total 317,873/

143,199

143,829 37,662/

16,967

8.4

18

19

20

Unit A Unit B

Unit A Energy carrier

Distr

ict he

ating

Elec

tricity

Natur

al ga

s

Heav

y oil

Othe

r

Basic (kWh/m² year) - - 212.8 - -

After implementation of energy efficient activities (kWh/m² year)

- - 66.5 - -

Energy saving (kWh/m² year) - - 146.3 - -

Coefficients of CO2 emissions (kg/kWh) for Georgia - 0.3999 0.202 - -

Reduction of CO2 emissions (kg/m² g) year - - 29.553 - -

Reduction of CO2 emissions (tonne/year) 49.471

Unit B Energy carrier

Distr

ict h

eatin

g

Elec

tricit

y

Natu

ral g

as

Heav

y oil

Othe

r

Basic (kWh/m² year) - - 217.9 - -

After implementation of energy efficient activities (kWh/m² year)

- - 121.3 - -

Energy saving (kWh/m² year) - - 96.6 - -

Coefficients of CO2 emissions (kg/kWh) for Georgia - 0,3999 0.202 - -

Reduction of CO2 emissions (kg/m² g) year - - 19.513 - -

Reduction of CO2 emissions (tone/year) 29.094

21

22

An instrument to help the local governments and other interested stakeholders to evaluate the severity and extent of the existing energy problems as well as to prioritize these problems in order to develop appropriate instruments to solve, or at least help ameliorate them;

Can be modified as needed in order to accommodate additional analytical and decision-making features to satisfy the future development needs of small territorial units like municipalities and/or regions of Georgia

It is interactive, bilingual (Georgian/English), enables users to choose among variety of options of data presentation (numerical, %, charts, etc), to retrieve and store data

Operating System: Windows XP/Vista/7 or Windows 8 Screen resolution: minimum 1024/768 Ram:2GB (or higher)

23

Energy Passport meets the following basic characteristics:

It is not a model of any particular energy system, but rather an instrument that can be used to create models of different energy systems;As a database it can provide a comprehensive system for maintaining energy information;As a policy analysis tool it can assess the effects - physical, economic, and environmental - of alternative energy programs, investments, and actions;It is expected to be used for forecasting energy balances and development of the energy efficiency action plans for each watershed (municipality)

24

Thank you

25