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EFNZ/SMF 'Methodologies for Projects to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions' Project.
Consortium Members
The 'Methodologies for Projects to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions' Project consortium was established in July 2001. This consortium consists of 16 companies and organizations:
- Meridian Energy
- Trust Power
- Transpower
- New Zealand Steel
- Mighty River Power
- Fonterra Research
- Golden Bay Cement
- Coal Association
- Ministry for the Environment
- Landcare Research
- Contact Energy
- BP
- M-Co The Market Place Company
- The Natural Gas Corporation
- Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority
- The New Zealand Refining Company
CRL Energy Limited facilitates the group on behalf of the Energy Federation of New Zealand.
Funding
The project has been funded by the Sustainable Management Fund through the Ministry for the Environment, and by contributions from each of the consortium companies.
In-Kind Support has also been received by Landcare Research, and Peter Read Consultancy.
Project Overview
The project will encourage emission reduction project-based initiatives by energy suppliers and users by providing technical guidelines for inventory reporting and methodologies. The project will improve sustainable management of the environment by educating, informing and facilitating the contribution of project-based activities to reducing greenhouse gas emissions in New Zealand.
The project will publish a workbook with guidelines for companies to undertake greenhouse gas emission inventories and project-based activities. Seminars will be held to disseminate the guidelines and their applications.
Proposed Outcomes
The outcomes of the project will be:
- Increased awareness and knowledge amongst industry users of guidelines and rules for greenhouse gas emission reporting and a means to register baselines for project-based activities
- Companies being proactive in examining and implementing project-based activity options as a means to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
- Medium to large companies investing in project-based activities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
- The use of methodologies to measure, monitor, and verify project-based activities, and
- A series of methodologies to use with NGAs and Projects. An example would be a methodology for quantifying electricity savings from waste heat utilisation
World Energy Council Cross Border Project Studies
The Energy Federation of New Zealand Inc. (EFNZ) is undertaking a programme of Cross Border Project studies for the World Energy Council. The first study was carried out in 2001 with several international partners that included Trust Power and CRL Energy in New Zealand, Resourceslaw International from Australia, and five of the major Japanese Energy Companies. These companies include Tokyo Electric Power (one of the two largest electricity companies in the world), Tokyo Gas, Chubu Electric Power, Kansai Electric Power and Osaka Gas.
The first study explored the feasibility of Japanese investment in the Tararua Stage 2 Wind farm. It looked at several innovative options on how best to make the Tararua Stage 2 wind farm project proceed. The conclusion was that the best option was an early allocation and international trade of New Zealand's Kyoto assigned amount units.
The success of this study programme was endorsed by the World Energy Council Executive Assembly in Buenos Aries in October 2001, and the next stages have been included in the WEC 2002-2004 work plan. The Second study is being undertaken in the Philippines with several of the same partners and new ones from The Philippines and Australia and is a CDN feasibility study examining a wind farm and geothermal project.
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