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Showing posts with label Energy. Show all posts

Events/Événements : The Farm Economy & Rural Resilience: Coping with Climate Change & Rising Energy Prices

Source: Ontario Farmland Trust.
February 15, 2013. There is no doubt climate change, increasingly unpredictable weather patterns and rising energy prices have become top of mind within the agriculture sector and rural communities across Ontario and around the world.

How are farmers and rural communities responding to such challenges? How closely tied are a thriving farm economy, land stewardship and rural resilience?

Join the Ontario Farmland Trust and the University of Guelph’s School of Environmental Design and Rural Development at the 2013 Farmland Forum in Guelph on Friday, February 15.

Forum Details

Date: February 15, 2013
Time: 8:30 - 3:15
Place: Arboretum Centre, University of Guelph (Click Here for directions)
Cost: $65 non-members; $50 Ontario Farmland Trust members
(includes lunch)

More information and registration.

WWW: ontariofarmlandtrust.ca

Studies/Études : Approaches for Adding Sustainable Energy to Rural Maritime Communities

Source: International Conference on Ocean Energy.
"Rural maritime communities are often located at the end of the line; adjacent to abundant marine resources but unable to transmit power due to ageing electrical infrastructure designed to transmitpower from large thermal power plants."

"This paper draws experience from communities located adjacent to Grand Passage and Petit Passage, Nova Scotia and could be applied to similar maritime communities such as the Isle of Islay in Scotland. The role of energy developers in these communities extends beyond the direct challenges of harnessing marine energy to supporting local economies and developing energy extraction that is sustainable.

This paper presents a model for the electric power supply required from the grid to meet the demand for fossil fuel replacement, with application to a case study of hybrid marine propulsion for passenger ferries that cross Grand Passage and Petit Passage. Fuel conversion from diesel combustion to power supply by an electric or ammonia hybrid ferry is shown to have a significant effect on available distribution capacity compared to the existing cap of estimated annual minimum load. An initial economic analysis suggests that electric hybrid ferries may be commercially viable at current residential power and diesel cost rates."

G. Trowse, J. Ross, D. Groulx, and Sue Molloy (2012). At the End of the Line: Approaches for Adding Sustainable Energy to Rural Maritime Communities. 4th International Conference on Ocean Energy, 17 October 2012, Dublin.

WWW: www.icoe2012dublin.com

Reports/Rapports : Does Renewable Energy Provide New Rural Opportunities?

Source: Nordregio.
"In many countries, renewable energy is highly prioritized, not only as a means of addressing environmental and energy security issues, but also as a potentially significant source of new employment, especially in rural areas throughout the OECD. One of the most important questions for policymakers is whether renewable energy can assist the development of rural economies."

"In response, this brief presents the results of a two-year project led by the OECD. The findings indicate that policy focused on the potential for renewable energy in the process of rural development should be cross-sector and place based. (...) The results also indicate that while renewable energy has the ability to create new jobs, we should not exaggerate its potential. Overall, renewable energy is potentially useful for all rural and low-population-density regions, but mainly in shifting a community facing structural economic downturn to a new lower economic equilibrium."

Read Nordregio Policy Brief 2012:5

WWW: www.nordregio.se

Events/Événements: 2012 Economic Revitalization Conference - Sustainable Economies, Sustainable Communities

Source: The Monieson Centre at Queen's School of Business.
April 11, 2012, Radisson Hotel Kingston Harbourfront. Building on the success of the Monieson Centre's 2008-2011 KIS Showcase annual conferences, the 2012 Economic Revitalization Conference is a high-impact event connecting academics, policymakers, community leaders, and business people around pressing rural economic development issues. This year's theme - Sustainable Economies, Sustainable Communities - will foster discussion of community resilience, showcasing innovative approaches to rural economic transformation.

Researchers, policymakers, business leaders and Queen's School of Business students will advance the agenda of the future of rural Canada. Presentations and interactive forums will provide strategies and best practices for how communities can build long-term sustainability through business and economic growth.

This free conference offers:

-Valuable networking opportunities with academics and community leaders engaged in rural development
-Leading-edge research and case studies in business sustainability, with key real-world applications for rural communities
-Opportunities to engage in ongoing economic revitalization research projects with The Monieson Centre at Queen's School of Business
-Access to researchers from Queen's University and partnering academic institutions
-Examples of and best-practices in community-based research

Funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada through the Monieson Centre's Research Partnerships to Revitalize Rural Economies project.

With support from:
- Leadership Team Partners: Northumberland County Economic Development; Prince Edward/Lennox & Addington Community Futures Development Corporation; Eastern Ontario Wardens Caucus; RDÉE Ontario; Rural Ontario Institute; The Monieson Centre
- Steering Committee Partners: The Ontario Association of CFDCs; Eastern Lake Ontario Regional Innovation Network; Queen's Sustainable Bioeconomy Centre; City of Kawartha Lakes

For free registration and a full agenda, visit: http://business.queensu.ca/centres/monieson/economic_revitalization/economic_events/economic_revitalization.php

WWW: http://business.queensu.ca/centres/monieson/index.php

Reports/Rapports : Exploring community acceptance of rural wind farms in Australia

Source: CSIRO.
CSIRO’s Energy Transformed Flagship has undertaken a preliminary study to consider community acceptance of wind farms from a variety of stakeholder perspectives.

"The Australian Government’s Renewable Energy Target (RET) requires that 20 per cent of Australia’s electricity be produced from renewable energy sources by 2020. Previous projections anticipate that wind technology could contribute to the majority of this target (for example, see ROAM Consulting, 20101).

Given this target and interest in wind farm development, CSIRO has explored community acceptance of the technology.

The preliminary study produced four key findings:

1. There is strong community support for the development of wind farms.

2. Many of the benefits can be shared or communicated in ways that would enhance community support for the development of wind farms in a region.

3. Existing regulatory approaches provide an appropriate framework for negotiating wind farm developments, but there is scope for improving outcomes.

4. The emerging notion of a ‘Social Licence to Operate’ provides a useful framework for wind farm developers to engage local communities in ways that could enhance transparency and local support."

Read Report.

Read Summary.

WWW: www.csiro.au

Reports/Rapports : Transitioning to Renewable Energy: Development Opportunities and Concerns for Rural America

Source: RUPRI/Community and Regional Development Institute (CaRDI).
"Rural America can provide the energy of tomorrow. Indeed, rural communities not only have the opportunity to reemerge as dominant producers of biomass energy where agricultural land predominates, but also of wind energy atop the hills, hydropower throughout the valleys, and solar across the plains and deserts."

"Abundant natural resources will be a necessary ingredient in the development of more water-, wind-, and biomass-intensive forms of energy. With vision and planning, rural America could even be home to new systems of distributed energy generation, which would lessen the need for costly energy transmission and transportation that is required to move energy to the places it is consumed or efficiently stored for later use."

Read report.

WWW: http://devsoc.cals.cornell.edu/cals/devsoc/outreach/cardi/index.cfm

Events/Événements : Rural energy matters

Source: RURENER.
April 12th 2011. "RURENER is part of the European Sustainable Energy Week. Together with other organisers such as the FREE initiative (Future of Rural Energy in Europe) or the Regional Office of Silesia we invite you to discuss the interface between ENERGY and RURAL."

Introduced by representatives from DG energy and DG agriculture (speakers to be confirmed), the event will give you the chance to share your experience and knowledge on this topic and to know more about the existing initiatives which you could join.

The objective is to share opinions and experiences, and to open a perspective to better promote the role and potential of rural areas in the field of energy, and the role of energy in the local development issue of rural areas and actors.
Covenant of mayors, competition on resources, sustainable building, climate change, agriculture, rural funds, … will be some of the topics of the day!

Where and when? April 12th 2011 from 14:00 to 17:30 at the Committee of the Regions, rue Belliard, 101, Brussels

Registration or further information.

WWW: http://rurener.eu

Presentations/Présentations : Production of Renewable Energy as a Regional Development Policy in Rural Areas

Source: OECD.
The OECD, in co-operation with the Government of Québec, organised a seminar to assess the potential impact of renewable energy on rural development in terms of jobs, investment, and empowerment of local communities.

The OECD project “The Production of Renewable Energy as a Regional Development Policy in Rural Areas” was launched at the seminar.

Keynote speaker presentation – Professor David Freshwater, University of Kentucky.
Keynote speaker presentation – Professor John Bryden, Norwegian Agricultural Economics Research Institute.
Keynote speaker presentation – Professor Ralph Sims, Massey University.

WWW: OECD Workshop on the Production of Renewable Energy as a Regional Development Policy in Rural Areas

Presentations/Présentations : Renewable Energy Workshop, June 11, 2010 / Atelier sur les énergies renouvelables, le 11 juin 2010

Le texte en français suit l’anglais.
Source: Rural Development Network / Réseau pour le développement rural.
The Rural Development Network (RDN) hosted a half-day Renewable Energy Workshop on June 11, 2010 featuring two presentations: Mr. Tim Weis, Director of Renewable Energy and Efficiency at The Pembina Institute; and Ms. Renée Lazarowich, Community Energy Technical Advisor with the Office of Energy Efficiency at Natural Resources Canada.

The Keynote speaker – Mr. Tim Weis, Director of Renewable Energy and Efficiency at The Pembina Institute – provided an overview of the study he co-authored titled “Renewable Energy Policies for Remote and Rural Communities”. Its overarching purpose was to aid in developing strategic and targeted public policy in Canada that could provide environmental, economic and social benefits to remote and rural communities.

During Mr. Weis’ presentation, participants learned about the Institute’s energy policy assessment which:
• examined Canadian and international policies that support the deployment of renewable energy technologies in rural and remote areas;
• covered policies and programs in Canada, the United States, Australia and Europe, focussing on recent policy developments between 2004-08 and programs that had been implemented to some degree in remote and rural communities;
• included particular barriers and challenges rural and remote communities face to increasing uptake of renewable energy technologies; and
• highlighted some of the economic, environmental and social impacts in meeting energy challenges of remote and rural communities.

Full presentation (PPT)
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The other invited speaker was Ms. Renée Lazarowich, Community Energy Technical Advisor with the Office of Energy Efficiency at Natural Resources Canada. She introduced the recent work by NRCan on Integrated Community Energy Solutions and its relevance to small, rural and remote communities. She also provided a summary of the study commissioned by NRCan and completed by The Pembina Institute, titled “Opportunities for Deep Reductions [of greenhouse gas emissions] in Small, Rural and Remote Communities”.

During Ms. Lazarowich’s presentation, participants heard about:
• constraints, limitations, challenges and opportunities for small, rural and remote communities related to energy and greenhouse gas emissions;
• successful strategies and case studies to reduce emissions and energy use taken from Canadian communities or communities outside Canada;
• sector-specific strategies (e.g. housing efficiency, transportation) as well as technological and integrated solutions (e.g. waste heat recovery from industrial processes); and
• certain economic, social and environmental benefits and climate change impacts of reducing energy use and greenhouse gas emissions.

Full presentation.


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Le Réseau pour le développement rural (RDR) a animé un Atelier sur les énergies renouvelables d’une demie journée le 11 juin 2010.

Le conférencier principal – M. Tim Weis, Directeur des énergies renouvelables et de la politique sur l’efficacité au Pembina Institute – a offert un aperçu de l’étude qu’il a corédigée : « Renewable Energy Policies for Remote and Rural Communities » (Politiques sur les énergies renouvelables pour les collectivités rurales et éloignées). Son objectif principal est d’aider à développer au Canada des politiques publiques stratégiques et ciblées dont les collectivités rurales et éloignées pourraient tirer des avantages environnementaux, économiques et sociaux.

Pendant sa présentation, M. Weis expliqua aux participants comment l’institut a évalué les politiques énergétiques :
• L’institut a examiné les politiques canadiennes et internationales qui appuient le déploiement de technologies d’énergies renouvelables dans les régions rurales et éloignées.
• L’évaluation portait sur les politiques et les programmes en place au Canada, aux États Unis, en Australie et en Europe, et mettait l’accent sur les récents développements politiques (entre 2004 et 2008) et les programmes qui avaient été mis en place jusqu’à un certain point dans les collectivités rurales et éloignées.
• L’évaluation portait aussi sur certains obstacles et défis qui nuisent à une adoption accrue des technologies d’énergies renouvelables par les collectivités rurales et éloignées.
• Elle soulignait certains des impacts économiques, environnementaux et sociaux liés à la résolution des problèmes énergétiques des collectivités rurales et éloignées.

Présentation (PPT).
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Mlle Renée Lazarowich, la seconde conférencière, est Conseillère technique en énergie des collectivités à l’Office de l’efficacité énergétique de Ressources naturelles Canada. Elle présenta les travaux effectués récemment par son ministère sur les solutions énergétiques intégrées pour les collectivités et expliqua leur importance pour les petites collectivités, les collectivités rurales et les collectivités éloignées. Elle offrit également un sommaire de l’étude commandée par RNCan et menée par le Pembina Institute. L’étude est intitulée « Opportunities for Deep Reductions [of greenhouse gas emissions] in Small, Rural and Remote Communities » (Possibilités de réductions importantes [d’émissions de gaz à effet de serre] dans les petites collectivités, les collectivités rurales et les collectivités éloignées).

Pendant sa présentation, Mlle Lazarowich parla de ce qui suit :
• Les contraintes, les limites, les défis et les possibilités pour les petites collectivités, les collectivités rurales et les collectivités éloignées de l’énergie et des émissions de gaz à effet de serre.
• Les stratégies réussies visant à réduire les émissions et la consommation d’énergie adoptées par des collectivités canadiennes ou étrangères, et les études de cas connexes.
• Les stratégies sectorielles (p. ex. efficacité des logements, transport) ainsi que les solutions technologiques intégrées (p. ex. récupération de la chaleur produite par les procédés industriels).
• Certains avantages économiques, sociaux et environnementaux et impacts sur le changement climatique de la réduction de la consommation d’énergie et des émissions de gaz à effet de serre.

Présentation.

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