Open AccessA developed tool allowing the South-Mediterranean cities to establish their sustainable energy plans
Author(s) -
Sabine Saad,
Adel Mourtada,
Marwan Brouche,
Mazen Ghandour
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
iop conference series. materials science and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1757-899X
pISSN - 1757-8981
DOI - 10.1088/1757-899x/609/7/072074
Subject(s) - baseline (sea) , context (archaeology) , action plan , plan (archaeology) , environmental economics , order (exchange) , sustainable development , environmental resource management , investment (military) , measure (data warehouse) , efficient energy use , greenhouse gas , energy planning , business , environmental planning , renewable energy , computer science , environmental science , engineering , economics , geography , finance , politics , database , law , ecology , oceanography , archaeology , biology , management , political science , electrical engineering , geology
In the framework of the Covenant of Mayors for mitigation and Green House Gas emissions reduction toward a sustainable future, proposed tools used in the South-Mediterranean countries have not always been sufficient. To quantify the territory emissions (Baseline Emission Inventory BEI), local authorities had to rely on inaccurate data that generated inaccurate results. Furthermore, classical tools would not allow any authority wishing to join without any technical assistance from CES-MED to identify and determine the performance of each measure in order to elaborate a feasible Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plan (SECAP). A new tool is necessary to fill the gaps and lead to a more developed approach, more generalized and adapted to the regional context. The first part developed of this tool can assess the basic situation of a municipality in terms of calculating emissions. A second part of this tool is to identify priority energy efficiency measures, determine the performance of each measure and the related investment costs, in order to develop the SECAP for any authority in Lebanon and in the region. This operational, reliable and effective tool called SECAP-SSP includes a specific database for Lebanon and the region to help municipalities calculate baseline emissions and assess the impacts of different SEAP measures. The new tool takes into account most of sectors contributing to the environmental impacts, to study their environmental performance, to succeed by modelling the determination of Optimum Energy Performance / Environmental Benefit / Costs of energy efficiency measures in the various sectors of the municipality. Depending on the magnitude of the contribution of each sector, the municipality will have the choice to decide on the measures to be implemented. A methodology for the elaboration of the “Budget Allocation Chart” is proposed. This paper presents the results of application of this tool for the development of the SECAP’s of municipalities in Lebanon.