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Annex A. Project Proposals GWRC Water & Energy - Draft report 18
PROJECT DESCRIPTION 1. Project Title Energy Efficiency in the Water Industry: A Compendium of Tools, Best Practices and Case Studies. Proposed by After manpower, energy is the highest cost item on the balance sheet of most water and wastewater companies. Over the last decade, energy consumption by the sector has considerably increased as a result of implementation of new technologies to meet new regulations. The price of energy has also substantially increased in the same period. In Europe, some water companies have reported increases in energy costs of over 60% in recent years and with oil prices continuing to escalate, further substantial increases in operating costs are expected. Those increases will be compounded by the need to meet additional new regulations that will require energy intensive treatment processes to achieve tight standards. High energy consumption will affect the water industry world wide and is inextricably linked to the issue of Climate Change. In November 2007, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), published its Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) ‘Climate Change 2007’. i The report recognises that adaptation measures are already being implemented, and will be essential in order to address the projected consequences. There is, however, a limit to adaptation. Mitigation measures will also be needed in order to stabilise the concentration of GHGs in the atmosphere, and to reduce the severity of impacts. Rapid world-wide investments and deployment of mitigation technologies, as well as research into new energy sources will be necessary to achieve a stabilisation of the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The IPCC ii concludes that all stabilisation levels assessed might be achieved by deployment of a portfolio of technologies that are either currently available or expected to be commercialised in coming decades. All assessed stabilisation scenarios indicate that 60-80% of the reductions would come from energy supply and use, and industrial processes, with energy efficiency playing a key role in many scenarios. The water industry therefore has a responsibility to work to mitigate climate change by ensuring that it builds and manages its infrastructure in a cost-effective, energy efficient manner. In doing so, it will make a significant contribution to mitigating climate change by reducing its carbon footprint. Objectives The objective of this project is to develop a Compendium of best practice (worldwide) in the energy efficient design and operation of water industry assets. The expectation is that the output of the project will be a ‘benchmarking tool’ that will be of value to GWRC’s members to guide them towards improving their own ways of working from an energy efficiency GWRC Water & Energy - Draft report 19
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