High-level International Conference“Energy Security and Sustainability – the OSCE

Perspective” 

Ashgabat, Republic of Turkmenistan, 17-18 October 2013

Hélène CONNOR, Ph.D.

SOME PRECONDITIONS TO THE

ECODEVELOPMENT OF THE ENERGY SECTOR

Energy Security and Sustainability

with Smart Energy Policies (SEP)

HELIO International

HELIO International is an international NGO thinktank of leading energy analysts whose common goal is to promote sustainable and equitable development for all (ecodevelopment).

HELIO experts carry out independent evaluations of national energy policies and inform citizens as well as decision-makers about their effectiveness. They also analyse and advise on ecodevelopment, participatory governance and climate stabilisation. 

HELIO's core activity is Sustainable Energy Watch.  SEW's objective is to measure progress towards sustainable energy and ecodevelopment practices nationally, regionally and globally. HELIO cooperates with local analysts.

Designing Smart Energy Policies (SEP)

Thread of the exposé: 1. Awareness of the challenges to achieve ecodevelopment

2. New problems need new tools: Soft energy technologies Climate-proofed energy policies Reinforcing the 5 forms of capital

3. Collective design and implementation of SEP for global security

The United Nations General Assembly unanimously declared the decade 2014-2024 as the Decade of sustainable energy for all.

1. Challenge of Providing Energy Security and Stability in a changing

environment

Climate change impacts both the demand and supply-side of the energy equation:

Impacts of temperature and climatic changes - direct AND indirect, immediate or delayed

Role of energy efficiency in improving security (quantitatively and qualitatively) by decreasing demand rather than increasing costly supply)

Some obstacles: Lack of proper institutions and transparent methods Lack of commonly accepted parameters/indicators for:

Adaptation needs Effectiveness of adaptation measures Total social costs (free of subsidies & including externalities)

Challenge of reconciling Energy and Ecodevelopment

Key role of energy National governments and the energy fundamentals

Supply = Demand Costs = Benefits

Analysing the interactions Direct: environment, economic, social Indirect: governance, global security

World initiatives: SEFA the UN sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL) Initiative, and the WEC Energy Trilemma: affordability, accessibility and environmentally sustainable energy for all."

What does Ecodevelopment imply?

Humans, utilising usufructal technologies use natural resources; through participatory governance, markets are controlled and regulated. I t is through these processes and

interactions that ecodevelopment is achieved. (Source: HELIO International)

MARKET

NATURE

HUMANKIND

2. New problems - New Tools:Soft/Smart Energy Paths (SEP)

Smart policies will be based on soft energy technologies because…

we cannot afford the « hard path » and never did in fact… countries are running into the wall largely because of their

energy policies (oil bills, debt, externalities, transport costs)

most countries have enough clean energy resources needed to develop harmoniously along a SEP

SEP is the best option left and the best use of our different forms of capitals

SEP will soon be « Plan B » for all countries

What are the technologies for a Smart/Soft Energy Path?

Renewable energy (flux and not stock) Diverse and numerous for resilience Flexible, decentralised and accessible Matched to end-use needsThey minimise the energy footprint of a country by

maximising efficiency and geographical distribution. Hence they promote peace, local economic development and job creation.

Information: • Amory Lovins, FoE, « Soft Energy Paths. Toward a durable peace » 1977• UK SEP by Gerald Leach http://www.heureka.clara.net/gaia/energy.htm• David JC MacKay, « Sustainable Energy — without the hot air » 2011

How to Devise a Climate-proof Soft Energy Path

A New Tool to Climate-Proof Energy Policies…

Because of climate vagaries, where energy is both culprit and victim, policies need to adapt and can use a new tool:

 TIPEETraitement de l’Information pour des Politiques Energétiques favorisant

l’Ecodéveloppement Processing Information for Smart Energy Policy and

Ecodevelopment

"I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal

run out before we tackle that."- --Thomas Edison (1847--1931)

TIPEE is… …a tool to help decision-makers make use of

available information and intelligence to make better energy decisions. 

…comprised of a methodology and of a set of 24 indicators to check energy impacts.

…a means for decision makers to check how well national energy policies are contributing to ecodevelopment under fluctuating weather conditions.

…designed to be applied freely.

TIPEE Indicators 1-7

TIPEE Indicators 8 - 14

TIPEE Indicators 15 – 24

Cameroon Indicators:1-14

00.10.20.30.40.50.60.70.80.9

1Emission de gaz à effet de serre (1)

Polluant local majeur lié à l'énergie(NO2) (2)

Déforestation (3)

Accès à l'électricité (4)

Fardeau énergétique(5)

Importation des énergies non renouvelables (6)

Réserves non-renouvelablesidentifiés (Export) (7a)

Réserves non-renouvelablesidentifiés (Import) (7b)

Deploiement des énergiesrenouvelables (8)

Efficacité énergétique (9)

Qualité du service électrique (10)

Contrôle des recettes pétrolières (amont) (11a)

Contrôle des recettes pétrolières (aval) (11b)

Consultation informée (12)

Participation citoyenne (13)

Equilibre de la gouvernance (14)

Cameroon Indicators 15-24

How can one country secure its energy ecodevelopment?

What assets can it master? In what shape are its 5 forms of capital?

Natural - the Environment Human - the People Social - Institutions (formal or not) Economic – the Markets (incl. Financial) Material - all that is built or produced

Five Forms of CAPITALFORMS OF

CAPITAL ELEMENTS SERVICES OBSTACLES IN OECD COUNTRIES

OBSTACLES IN LESS DEVELOPED COUNTRIES

NATURAL CAPITAL

Environment Ecosystems mechanisms

Basic needs: food, water, natural resources

Global contamination Lack of free space

Careless exploitation Destruction of virgin habitat

HUMAN CAPITAL

Population Local aptitudes

Manpower Management Rural exodus Overpopulation

Diseases

SOCIAL CAPITAL

Institutions Networks Culture Religion

Quality of life Stability - Peace

Pauperisation Income disparities

Poverty Cast systems

ECONOMIC CAPITAL

Markets Financial system

Jobs - Income Dignity

Productivism: fewer and duller jobs - Corruption

Opacity - Debt Capital flight MNC corruption

MATERIAL CAPITAL

Infrastructures Buildings

Standard of living - Mobility

Deindustrialisation Concentration

Poverty - Lack of infrastructures

Forms of Capital OBSTACLES IN OECD COUNTRIES

OBSTACLES IN LESS DEVELOPED COUNTRIES

SUGGESTED SOLUTIONS SOME TOOLS FOR FAIR DEVELOPMENT

NATURAL CAPITAL

Global contamination Lack of free space

Careless exploitation Destruction of virgin habitat

Protection of the environment Implementation of legislation to protect the Global Commons

HUMAN CAPITAL Rural exodus

Cities overpopulation Diseases

Education - Training - Health care

Professional schools Local medical services Universal access to energy

SOCIAL CAPITAL

Pauperisation Income disparities

Poverty Cast systems

Radical redistribution of local riches locally Citizens involvement Gender parity

Participatory decision-making Promotion of local networksImproved land tenure - Creation of unions for unemployed

ECONOMIC CAPITAL

Productivism: fewer and duller jobs - Corruption

Opacity - Debt Capital flight -MNC corruption

Transparency of all transactions Ban of fiscal paradises

Control of fund transfers and bank practices - Just taxation "Publish what you pay"

MATERIAL CAPITAL

Deindustrialisation Centralisation

Poverty - Lack of infrastructures

Promotion of goods sharing Efficiency Decentralisation of energy production

BUILDING ECODEVELOPMENTUSING THE CAPITALISTIC

APPROACH

Like air and water, energy access is a fundamental right. It is an essential service.

The role of the energy decision-makers is to ensure that every person has access to clean, efficient, safe and affordable energy services.

This can be done by: Ensuring that energy is part of national ecodevelopment

strategy (Agenda 21) Making decisions in cooperation with local beneficiaries Using equipment that is resilient, efficient and well–maintained Installing energy systems in low risk areas Having a local emergency crisis management process in place Ensuring diversified and decentralised energy supply

Avoid transmission and other vulnerabilities …

3. Collective design and implementationof SEP for global security

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