Presentation 060809
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Policy and Practice in the Energy Markets GREEN BUILDINGS
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Green Buildings, policy and practice in the energy markets. A recent presentation given at an energy forum on cogeneration in CBD buildings
Transcript of Presentation 060809
Policy and Practice in the Energy Markets
GREEN BUILDINGS
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TGreen Buildings: Policy and Practice
• Why Green Buildings?
• Why cogeneration?
• What’s the problem?
• Some issues
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Acting on the Split Incentive Problem: Green Buildings
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Composition of GHG emission (2006)
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
Residential Commercial
Other (standby)
Appliances
(Cooking,
Refrigeration)
Light
Cooling (Air
conditioning)
Hot water
Space Heating
Source: National Inventory by Economic Sector 2006, Australian Government Department of Climate Change, June 2008
Can be influenced by
building construction
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Potential cogeneration projects in the Melbourne CBD: Developer Information
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Source: Citipower, Climate Change Policy Challenges for the Network, City of Melbourne 1200, 20 March 2009
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Green Buildings: Wider Issues for the Energy Market
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• The connection process
– Transparency
– Information sharing
– Timeliness
– Who pays
• The commercial problem
– The costs of Green Star vs the prospective benefits
• The regulatory debate
– Current regulatory debate about climate change and the energy market
– The changing nature of the distribution network
– Investment recovery: parallels with the water industry
• Responding to climate change
– The costs of the response: parallels with the introduction of the MRET Scheme
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SMaking Cogeneration in the CBD Possible: Suggested Actions
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Join the Green Buildings agenda requirements and the current regulatory debate about the DB’s role by responding to current public regulatory processes
• AEMC Inquiry into Impacts of Climate Change, responses to 2nd draft report due 3 August• AEMC Review of National Framework for Electricity Distribution Businesses Network
Planning and Expansion, responses to draft report due mid/late August
Provide a forum to co-ordinate developer interactions with Citipower at (sub) precinct level to reduce time and cost of individual connections/improve Citipower knowledge of potential applications
Investigate potential for joint/stand alone proposal for solution to issue outside the regulated network
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Seed Advisory
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Patricia Boyce Peter Eben
Director Director
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