Closing the Gap - GEF Experiences in Global Energy Efficiency

Energy efficiency plays and will continue to play an important role in the world to save energy and mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. However, little is known on how much additional capital should be invested to ensure using energy efficiently as it should be, and very little is known which sub-areas, technologies, and countries shall achieve maximum greenhouse gas emissions mitigation per dollar of investment in energy efficiency worldwide.
Analyzing completed and slowly moving energy efficiency projects by the Global Environment Facility during 1991-2010, Closing the Gap: GEF Experiences in Global Energy Efficiency evaluates impacts of multi-billion-dollar investments in the world energy efficiency. It covers the following areas:
1. Reviewing the world energy efficiency investment and disclosing the global energy efficiency gap and market barriers that cause the gap;
2. Leveraging private funds with public funds and other resources in energy efficiency investments; using these funds in tangible and intangible asset investments;
3. Investment effectiveness indollars per metric ton of CO₂ emissions mitigation in 10 energy efficiency sub-areas;
4. Major barriers causing failure and abandonments in energy efficiency investments;
5. Quantification of direct and indirect CO₂ emissions mitigations inside and outside a project boundary; and
6. Classification and estimation of CO₂ emissions mitigations from tangible and intangible asset investments.
Closing the Gap: GEF Experiences in Global Energy Efficiency can serve as a handbook for policymakers, project investors and managers, and project implementation practitioners in need of benchmarks in energy efficiency project investments for decision-making. It can also be used by students, researchers and other professionals in universities and research institutions in methodology development for evaluating energy efficiency projects and programs.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Background And Literature Review On Energy Efficiency Gaps.- Chapter 3: Overview Of GEF Mandate In Energy Efficiency.- Chapter 4: A Representative Energy Efficiency Project.- Chapter 5: Quantitative Methodology, Data Analysis, And Assumptions.- Chapter 6: GEF Energy Efficiency Investment Portfolio.- Chapter 7: Cost-Effectiveness Of Energy Efficiency Investments.- Chapter 8: Completed Energy Efficiency Projects: A Portfolio-Level Analysis Of Funding.- Chapter 9: Energy Efficiency Projects That Move Slowly.- Chapter 10: Conclusions And Implications.

About the author

Dr. Ming Yang is Senior Environmental Economist at an international organization based in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining the organization, he worked for four years as Energy and Environment Economist and Energy Technology Economist for the International Energy Agency of the OECD in Paris. Before that, he was Energy Adviser and Climate Change Specialist for two years at the Asian Development Bank. Dr Yang is good at quantitative analysis in issues related to economics, engineering, technology and climate change. In 1986, he undertook a feasibility study with MARKAL model on China s Three Gorges Power Plant. In 1994, he simulated negotiation process by using EFOM model. In 2007, with the IEA's ETP model (the new version of MARKAL) he designed two scenarios for IEA s Energy Technology Perspectives 2008. Over the past two decades, he has about 100 articles published in journals and conference proceedings. He significantly contributed to quantitative analysis and writing of four books on energy and climate change that were published in the Asian Development Bank and the International Energy Agency. Ming holds a Ph.D. in energy economics and planning from the Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok jointly with l'Institut d'Economie et de Politique de l'Energie (IEPE), Université des Sciences Sociales, Grenoble, France.

Summary

Energy efficiency plays and will continue to play an important role in the world to save energy and mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. However, little is known on how much additional capital should be invested to ensure using energy efficiently as it should be, and very little is known which sub-areas, technologies, and countries shall achieve maximum greenhouse gas emissions mitigation per dollar of investment in energy efficiency worldwide.
Analyzing completed and slowly moving energy efficiency projects by the Global Environment Facility during 1991-2010, Closing the Gap: GEF Experiences in Global Energy Efficiency evaluates impacts of multi-billion-dollar investments in the world energy efficiency. It covers the following areas:
1.       Reviewing the world energy efficiency investment and disclosing the global energy efficiency gap and market barriers that cause the gap;
2.       Leveraging private funds with public funds and other resources in energy efficiency investments; using these funds in tangible and intangible asset investments;
3.       Investment effectiveness indollars per metric ton of CO₂ emissions mitigation in 10 energy efficiency sub-areas;
4.       Major barriers causing failure and abandonments in energy efficiency investments;
5.       Quantification of direct and indirect CO₂ emissions mitigations inside and outside a project boundary; and
6.       Classification and estimation of CO₂ emissions mitigations from tangible and intangible asset investments.
Closing the Gap: GEF Experiences in Global Energy Efficiency can serve as a handbook for policymakers, project investors and managers, and project implementation practitioners in need of benchmarks in energy efficiency project investments for decision-making. It can also be used by students, researchers and other professionals in universities and research institutions in methodology development for evaluating energy efficiency projects and programs.

Product details

• Authors: Ming Yang
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2014
• EAN: 9781447162230
• ISBN: 978-1-4471-6223-0
• No. of pages: 194
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 12 mm x 235 mm
• Weight: 353 g
• Illustrations: XXXIV, 194 p.
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Heat, energy and power station engineering; B, Climate Change, engineering, Energy Policy, Economics and Management, Energy technology & engineering, Energy Policy, Energy industries & utilities, Environmental Sciences, Energy and state