off grid renewable energy as a chance for sustainable
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The presentation on 53rd ERSA Congress, Palermo, August 28th, 2013TRANSCRIPT
OFF-GRID RENEWABLE ENERGY AS A CHANCE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
OF THE SOUTH OF RUSSIA
Ratner SvetlanaInstitute of Control Science, Moscow
Carbon intensity of some economies in the world (amount of greenhouse gas emissions /GDP)
Russian Electricity production by sources, 2010.
Barriers to Technology Diffusion
According to IEA • Technical• Economic (Efficiency, capacities, output,
finantial)• Institutional (including legal)• Behavioural (Informational)According to S.Shelton, Georgia Institute of Technology• Infrastructure
Technological scheme of electrical power supply in Russia
The level of centralization of population and economic activity in the major cities in some
regions
Typical apartment house
Focus of research
• Small wind energy systems (SWT)• Solar thermal collectors• Heat Pumps• Biogas plants• Solar PV panels
Method of research
• JEDI model (input-output): environmental effects, number of jobs, salaries, and overall economic activity
• Identification of the potential beneficiaries (Force Field Analysis, Kurt Lewin)
Environmental EffectsTechnology Potential Market Potential
Environmental Effects
Small Wind 1,760 SWT installations a year
5,000 tons of GHG
Solar Thermal 1,760 2 sq.m installations a year
10,000 tons GHG
Biogas plants 33 poultries8 pig farms
The decrease in waste water as 0,3
billion m3;20,700 tons GHG
Heat Pumps 15,542 installations a year
20,800 tons of GHG
Potential beneficiaries
• Domestic producers of small wind turbines (13% of world manufactures)
• Solar cells manufacturers (2 of well-known manufacturers are located in Krasnodar)
• Small service companies • Companies with foreign capital (by LLC "Klaas-
Kuban“)• Biogas-station producers• Population
The perspectives of development
• The modeling of interaction between groups of potential beneficiaries and pollutant-industries lobbies
• Investigation of information barriers and cross-country comparisons;
References
Barriers to Technology Diffusion: the Case of Solar Thermal Technologies. Cédric Philibert, International Energy Agency, 2006Lewin K. (1943). Defining the "Field at a Given Time.“ Psychological Review. 50: 292-310. Republished in Resolving Social Conflicts & Field Theory in Social Science, Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association, 1997.Lewin, K. (1946) Action research and minority problems. J Soc. Issues 2(4): 34-46