Webinar: Capturing the Multiple Benefits of Energy Efficiency

Start/Stop Date:
11 Mar 2015
Organiser:
DSM University in collaboration with Leonardo Energy
Venue:
Webinar 15:00 - 16:00 CET
Focus Areas:
energy efficiency policy, energy savings
Type of Event:
Conference

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About the webinar:
Nina Campbell will present the key findings of an important recent IEA publication entitled Capturing the Multiple Benefits of Energy Efficiency.

The traditional focus on energy savings as the main goal of energy efficiency policy has, at times, led to an underestimation of the full value of energy efficiency in both national and global economies. Energy efficiency can bring multiple benefits, such as enhancing the sustainability of the energy system, supporting strategic objectives for economic and social development, promoting environmental goals and increasing prosperity. The book contains a dedicated chapter on the benefits for macroeconomic growth, balancing public budgets, health and well-being, industrial competiveness and energy service delivery.

The aim of this book is two-fold:  to build knowledge of the multiple benefits of energy efficiency, and to demonstrate how policy makers and other stakeholders can use existing tools to measure and maximise the benefits they seek. Five key benefits areas – macroeconomic development; public budgets; health and well-being; industrial productivity; and energy delivery – are investigated in-depth, showing compelling returns when the value of multiple benefits is calculated alongside traditional benefits of energy demand and greenhouse gas emissions reductions. Considering multiple benefits also has important implications for unravelling one of the persistent challenges in energy efficiency – the rebound effect – revealing that it often signals a positive outcome in terms of achieving broader social and economic goals.

By identifying and quantifying a broader range of impacts of energy efficiency, the multiple benefits approach repositions energy efficiency as a mainstream tool for economic and social development, and has the potential to motivate higher uptake of energy efficiency opportunities in the market.

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Moderator: Hans De Keulenaer
Hans de Keulenaer is Director of Energy & Electricity at the European Copper Institute (ECI), a non-profit organisation working towards the support and expansion of copper and copper alloy’s markets in Europe. He has over 25 years of experience in running international campaigns for companies and international organisations in the industrial sector. His current interests are sustainable energy systems, e-learning, quality of supply, smart & age-adaptive buildings and energy regulation.

Speaker: Nina Campbell
Nina Campbell authored this report as an Energy Policy Analyst within the Energy Efficiency and Environment Division of the International Energy Agency (IEA). Originally from New Zealand, Nina began her career as a lawyer in resource management, before joining the IEA in 2008 where she worked for six years on various climate change and energy efficiency related policy issues. Most recently, Nina was the project manager and of the IEA’s study on the multiple benefits of energy efficiency – which involved a two-year research programme engaging more the 300 experts in various disciplines in which the impacts of energy efficiency have been witnessed. Nina is now based in Dublin, consulting on the multiple benefits of energy efficiency with partners in Europe and further afield.