Energia e Alterações Climática 2020/21

Topic outline

• General
  

  General

  Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia do Ambiente, FCT-UNL

  Energia e Alterações Climáticas (EAC) / Energy and Climate Change,  2020/21
  

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  How can we provide the benefits of energy to the population of the globe without damaging the environment, negatively affecting social stability, or threatening the well-being of future generations? in Sustainable Energy, MIT 2005

  
  

  The Paris Agreement: the world unites to fight climate change. EU ClimateAction.
  

  • Anúncios / Notices Forum
  • Forum geral / General forum

    Troca de informações relevantes para a turma e esclarecimento de dúvidas.

    Information exchange, question & answer.

  • Syllabus & Evaluation

  • Syllabus File
  • Evaluation 2021 File
  • Critérios de avaliação File
  • Assignment#1 Evaluation_v2 File
  • Assignment#2 Evaluation File
  • Assignment #3 evaluation File
  • Final Grades 2021 File
  • Questionnaire on the course Feedback

    Anonymous questionnaire on the quality of EAC

  • Classes

  • Zoom Room - J. Joanaz de Melo URL
  • Zoom Room - J. Seixas URL
  • Folder_RecordedClasses URL
  • General resources

  • Dicas para escrita técnica: iniciativa "Escrever Melhor" File
  • Apresentações orais File
  • Brochure "The International System of Units (SI)", BIPM, 2006 File
  • The NIST Reference on the International System of Units (SI) URL
  • Encíclica Laudato Sí sobre o cuidado da casa comum File
  • Encyclical Laudato Sí on care for our common home File
  • Selected Resources on Energy File
  • Selected Resources on Climate Change File
• Energy and climate
  

  Energy and climate

  1 –Energy & Climate Change: a complex, interdisciplinary and perennial relation. Practicalities of the course (J. Seixas)
  

  11 March
  

  The relationship between energy and climate change. Signals and opportunity for action. The importance of a systemic change of the energy system. Where is the innovation to solve the climate change problem?
  

  How the course will develop? Evaluation components. 

  • Class1_CoursePresentation File
  • 2 – World energy system  (J. Seixas & J. Joanaz de Melo)
    

    15 March

    Overview of the World energy system. Production and consumption of energy. Access to clean energy. Drivers for energy consumption. Performance indicators: energy and carbon intensity. The future of energy systems.

  • Class 2_ World energy system File
  • IEA: key world statistics URL
  • REN21: Renewables Global Status Report URL
• Greenhouse gas emissions and Future Scenarios
  

  Greenhouse gas emissions and Future Scenarios

  3- Greenhouse effect and global budgets of CO2, CH4 and N2O (J. Seixas)

  18 march 

  Brief presentation of the greenhouse effect. Global CO2 Budget: emissions from fossil energy and land use changes. Emissions from energy sources and countries. Carbon intensity. Global methane emissions and sources. Global nitrous oxide emissions and sources. 

  • Class3_GlobalEmissions File
  • Assignment 1 - Energy Transition 21st century File
  • Assignment 1: Team and economic sector Forum
  • Understanding Future Climate Change Assessment (J. Seixas)

    22 march 

    Introduction to emission scenarios (SSP); Representative Concentration Pathways (RCP); Climate Models.  Sequencial assessment and purposes.

  • Class4_ClimateScenarios File
• Evidences of Climate changes and Impacts
  

  Evidences of Climate changes and Impacts

  Impacts of climate changes (J. Seixas)
  

  25 march

  Evidences of changes in climate variables (with a focus on 2020): temperature, rainfall, ice extent, ocean heat content and sea level rise, extremes climate and weather events). Examples of impacts on natural and human systems. Future scenarios of climate variables in brief. From changes in climate to system’s vulnerability: clarification of concepts of exposure, sensitivity, climate impact and vulnerability; the need for adaptation.

  • Class 5_ Evidences of Climate changes and impacts File
• Renewables
  

  Renewables

  Renewables (J. Seixas) 

  29 march 

  Highlights on international renewables state of the art. Concepts to understand the role of renewables in the energy system: technology learning curves, capacity factor, cost curves and LCOE, system value of renewables, environmental and sustainability aspects of renewables. 
  

  
  

  • Class 6_Renewables File
• GHG Inventories | UNFCCC CRF
  

  GHG Inventories | UNFCCC CRF

  Renewables | GHG inventories

  8 april 
  

  Conclusion of the Renewables subject, from last class. Greenhouse gas emissions inventories. The UNFCCC Common Report Format (CRF): structure, and contents. Looking deeper ar the Energy sector.

  • Greenhouse gas Emissions Inventories File
• Business and Climate Change
  

  Business and Climate Change

  How companies deal with Climate Change? (J. Seixas) 

  19 april

  Climate change risks for companies. Mitigation, adaptation and risk management for the case of companies. GHG emissions inventories. Carbon footprint of products. Racionale and examples of carbon voluntary markets. 

  • class9_19 April File
  • Assignment 2 - How the companies deal with Climate Change? File
  • What is your company? Forum
• Policy and economics
  

  Policy and economics

  POLICY AND ECONOMICS OF CLIMATE CHANGE I (J. Seixas) 

  12 april
  

  Global framework to deal with climate change: UNFCCC, Paris Agreement. Fundamentals of carbon and climate economics: risks and opportunities for organisations and businesses. Insights on Carbon pricing: emissions trading schemes, carbon taxes.

  
  

  • Class7_12april File
  • POLICY AND ECONOMICS OF CLIMATE CHANGE II (J. Seixas) 

    15 april
    

    European Framework to deal with climate change mitigation. EU-Emissions Trading scheme: purpose, rules, and key results. Discussion about ETS positive effects and flaws.
    

    
    

  • class8_15april File
  • european-green-deal-communication en File
  • EUpolicies_EnergyClimate EUParliament_2019 File
• Seminar 'Energy transition in 21st century'
  

  Seminar 'Energy transition in 21st century'

  Energy transition in the 21st century: the role of economic sectors

  Presentation by the students.

  Part 1: 26 April 

  Parte 2: 29 April 
• Home energy plan and bioclimatic architecture
  

  Home energy plan and bioclimatic architecture

  Home Energy Plan (3 May)

  Energy plan for a residential building: energy uses, performance indicators, energy classification, savings potencial and analysis, business plan. Explanation of Assigment 3.

  Energy comfort and bioclimatic architecture (6 May)

  Concept of climatic comfort. Solar radiation and microclimatic variations. Bioclimatic comfort: principles, World examples and focus on the Portuguese case. Thermal behaviour of buildings: principles and some practical solutions. Passive solar systems. Invited speaker: Prof. Luís Rosmaninho (FAUL).

  • Assignment #3: Home Energy Plan File
  • Class notes: passive solar systems & bioclimatic architecture File
  • Conceitos Bioclimáticos (INETI) File
  • Paper "Potential energy savings in the climatization of residential buildings", TP Lopes & JJ Melo File
  • Colecção "10 soluções de eficiência energética", ADENE Folder
  • Tese: URL

    "Avaliação do potencial de poupança de energia na habitação em Portugal", João Grilo

• Energy efficiency: buildings and industry
  

  Energy efficiency: buildings and industry

  Energy auditing: theory (10 May)
  

  Energy auditing: definition and goals; methodology and tasks; data analysis; energy balances; brief review of common energy efficiency measures.

  Residential building certification: theory and regulation (13 May)

  Building certification — European directive and regulation. Principles and methods to compute energy behaviour of buildings. The Portuguese Regulation for the certification of residential buildings (REH).

  Residential building certification: REH application (17 May)

  Explanation of the use of Excel worksheet to compute the energy class of residential buildings according to the REH.

  Energy auditing: exercises (20 May)

  Clarification about the application of REH to case-studies. Exercise on the energy balance of a thermal machine.

  Energy efficiency in the industry (27 May)

  Present context. Opportunities in the industry. Immediate measures. Energy auditing.

  • Class notes: energy auditing File
  • Class notes: principles for energy certification of buildings File
  • REH - Síntese da legislação aplicável (ITeCons) File 2.5MB
  • Manual "REH Light" (D. Aelenei) File 2.3MB
  • Coeficientes de transmissão térmica (LNEC) File 8.9MB
  • Catálogo de pontes térmicas lineares (ITeCons) URL
  • Folha de cálculo REH / Worksheet REH (D. Aelenei) File
  • SCE - Energias Renováveis (DGEG) File
  • Manual de eficiência energética BCSD Portugal File
  • Eficiência energética na indústria ADENE File
  • Energy balance exercise File
  • Solved energy balance exercise File
  • Aula: Eficiência energética na indústria (R. Neves Silva) File
• Policy for energy efficiency
  

  Policy for energy efficiency

  National energy system: trends, policy, distortions (21 May)

  Trends in the Portuguese energy system, their causes and consequences. Evaluation of policy decisions. Energy market distortions.
  

  Alternative energy strategy (31 May)

  Priorities for energy policy: efficiency, decentralized generation, sustainable mobility, facing poverty.

  Sustainable mobility: doctrine and planning (8 June)

  Mobility and land use management. Doctrine and models for the operational management of public transport systems. Comparing the Portuguese case with international examples.

  • Strategy for a sustainable decarbonization of the energy sector in Portugal File

    Melo, J.J., Sousa, M.J.F., Pereira, A.M., Fernandes, F., Galvão, A., Grilo, J. (2021). Strategy for a sustainable decarbonization of the energy sector in Portugal: identification of priority policy measures. In: Mauerhof, V. (Ed), The Role of Law in Governing Sustainability, 81-99. Series on Sustainable Development Research. Routledge, London and New York.  ISBN: 978-0-367-74632-2
    

  • Estratégia energética alternativa — princípios e medidas File
  • Estratégia energética alternativa: avaliação ambiental e económica File
  • IMF wp "How Large Are Global Energy Subsidies?" File 699.7KB
  • Bruegel: climate change & finance risk File 112KB
  • Understanding attitudes towards public transport and private car: A qualitative study in Portugal URL
  • Notas da aula: "Cidade e mobilidade: conceito, doutrina, instituições" File
• Energy Balance
  

  Energy Balance

  Hands-on energy balance (J. Seixas) 
  7 June

  Part I: Energy statistics: where are they; understanding and exploring statistical energy data balances. 

  Part II: Energy topics you must be aware of (and we did not have the opportunity to talk about them)

  • Energy statistics File
  • Selected energy topics to be aware of File
• Topic 13
  

  Topic 13

  Not available
• Seminar: Home Energy Plan
  

  Seminar: Home Energy Plan

  14 and 17 June
  

  Discussion of the Home Energy Plan based on selected presentations.

  • Volunteers to present Assignment 3 Forum