Ireland’s Energy Balance 2012 Ireland’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Royal Irish Academy 9th October 2013

Revisions & Changes

• Coal figures revised 2009 – ‘11 on better data from suppliers

• Milled Peat

– Resolved double counting issue in briquetting

– Allocated some peat to Food Beverage Tobacco based on ETS

data

– Production of peat was down due to the record breaking rainfall

in the summer of 2012. This also resulted in a large stock draw

Revisions and changes

• Sod Peat

– estimate no longer provided by Bord Na Móna due to new legislation.

– Estimated 20% reduction on 2011 figure until a new methodology is

established.

• Petroleum Coke

– 2003 to 2009 some sales to commercial and residential consumers

were actually sales to other solid fuel providers. This was corrected.

– 2005 to 2011 now using ETS figures for Industry consumption instead

monthly surveys.

Revisions and changes

• Hydro – pumped storage back online in Feb 2012

• Waste – electricity production reported for the first time under for

Renewable & Non-Renewable Waste due to a new waste-to-

energy plant coming online in 2012.

• Natural Gas

– 2004 to 2011 revised with latest data

– 2006 to 2012 revisions resulting from improved methodology

around production and stock change agreed with BGE

Revisions and changes

• Electricity

– Now using CER retail market report and market shares to split

final consumption of electricity into sectors

• Bitumen

– Revised calorific value for Bitumen as the formula was

incorrectly using calorific value of Bituminous Coal

Revisions and changes

General Trends in 2012

2012 Energy Balance

-5.7%

-1.1% -0.6%

-2.8%

-4.6% -3.7%

-4.2%

General Trends

Primary Energy

-4.6%

Energy-related CO2 Emissions

-4.0%

Non-ETS Energy-related CO2 Emissions

-5.4%

Final Energy

-3.7% -4.2% Climate Corrected

Electricity Generation Fuel Mix

Coal +27.1%

Peat +16.1%

Oil +2.0%

Gas -9.2%

Renewables +2.0%

+2.2%

Gross Electricity Generation

Renewable Contribution to

Gross Electricity Consumption

RES-E (2012) 18.9%

Normalised 19.6%

Electricity CO2 Intensity & Efficiency

Transport by Fuel 1990 – 2012

5.7% reduction in transport energy in 2012

Petrol down 9.1%

Diesel up 0.1%

Biofuels down 13.2%

Kerosene down 16.3%

3.7% reduction if aviation is excluded

CO2 intensity of new cars

Average emissions for new cars were

24% pre-taxation change levels in 2012

In 2012, 26.6% of the stock were

purchased in 2008 or later

-24%

CO2 intensity international comparison

Private Cars

Shares of Cars by Emission Bands

A&B = 94%

Weather Effects – Heating Degree Days

Residential Energy Consumption

No. of permanently occupied dwellings up 13% since 2006

Residential energy fell by 4.4% since 2006

Climate Corrected down by 7.8% since 2006

• Home Energy Savings Scheme

– Supported upgrade to 25,000 homes

• Better Energy Homes (from 2011)

– 136,000 homes upgraded to December 2012

– 346,000 measures implemented

• Greener Homes (March 2006 to May 2011)

– 47,439 applications

– 35,225 granted

– March 2006 to May 2011

• Warmer Homes

– 73,555 homes since 2005 (81,800 since 2000)

Household Energy Grant Schemes

Energy Consumption per Household

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-23%

Progress towards Renewable Targets 2012

RE = 6.3% of TPER

RES-E

19.6%

RES-H

5.2%

RES-T

2.3%

RE Directive =

7.0% of GFC

The Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland is partly

financed by Ireland’s EU Structural Funds Programme co-

funded by the Irish Government and the European Union.

Thank you.