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Towards Low Carbon Growth Path

Lawrence Berkeley Lab is developing low carbon scenarios for India upto 2051-52 for the industrial and the buildings sectors. Jadavpur University is working as one of the partner institutions in this effort. 

The first phase of the project for the industry sector consisted in gathering information about energy use from six key energy intensive sub-sectors: Steel, Cement, Aluminum, Fertilizers, Pulp and paper and Petroleum Refining. Energy use estimates were broken down by technology and for some sectors by size of plants. Within each industry sub-sectors, LBNL developed a list of energy efficient technologies that have the potential to significantly reduce GHG emissions.  For the buildings sector, Phase I focused on estimating the total building stock of commercial sector, broken down by specific economic activities. Energy use estimates for select end-uses were based on existing energy audits for specific building types.

Now in the second phase of the project, we will refine the preliminary energy use estimates developed in the first phase, and gather data on savings potential and cost of each energy efficient measures. For each industrial sub-sector and the building types, our goal is to identify feasible rates of introduction of energy efficient measures, identify the energy savings and estimate the associated incremental costs for reducing GHG emissions taking into account key factors in the Indian context.

Hence, we'd like participants to provide comments on the report from the  first phase and to help/advise us on identifying source of information  on energy efficiency's improvement measures: Industry association,  BEE and many individual researchers and experts are working hard on these topics and we believe that they can provide with helpful information on the technology that are most promising in India.

Ideally, we would like participant to contribute byway of information available in survey/study/data that characterizes energy use at the sub-sectoral  level and that have assessed the energy savings potential and estimated  the cost of implementing individual energy saving measures. A format for data generation will be circulated.

The report will duly acknowledge participants and their contributions. The participants are also expected to get information about all possible technologies and their relevant costs and get an idea of how any company can become market leader through low carbon technology adoption.

Prepared by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California, USA   and Jadavpur University , Kolkata, India. Research Project is sponsored by World Bank. 2008-09.

Contact persons:

Ø  Joyashree Roy, Jadavpur Unversity, Kolkata, India

Ph : 91-33- 64147760                                                  jroy@cal2.vsnl.net.in

Ø  Stephane de la Rue du Can , LBNL, US (SAdelaRueduCan@lbl.gov)

Ø  Maithili Iyer, LBNL, US (miyer@eapx02.lbl.gov)

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DRAFT AGENDA FOR THE INTERACTIVE SESSION ON LOW CARBON GROWTH PATH.

Date                                       :               19th March, 2009.

Venue                                    :               Committee Room 1, Jadavpur University.

Time                                       :               11 am.   - 3:30 pm

11am – 1:00 pm                  :             Discussion on industrial sector

1:00 pm – 1:30 pm             :               Lunch

1:30 pm – 3:30 pm             :               Discussion on building sector.                          

PROGRAM

1. Introducing the theme of the interactive session*
2. Presentation of the Phase I work*
3. Sharing the goal and format of Phase II work*
4. Participation of the invitees to comment on the presentation
5. Way Forward.

*Presentations will be made by research team from Jadavpur University and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA.