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The work is titled "Energy on the horizon of 2030" and has been written by Ramon Folch, Ivan Capdevila, Antoni Oliva and Anna Moreso
This work, published by the Department of Labor and Industry of the Generalitat of Catalonia, has as its main objective to evaluate the current energy situation from all major angles in order to design a future possible scenario that will help us react to all perspectives .
The authors, members of the Ramon Folch Environmental Management and Communication Studio, begin their work saying that the progressive difficulty in accessing cheap energy will mark economic activity in the next decades and that the socio-environmental consequences of the use of fossil energy They will also be increasingly difficult to assume. Therefore, they do not rule out a serious supply and price crisis before 2030. With this work premise and "in terms of good governance", it is necessary to adopt an energy strategy in order to "not remain at the mercy of events ".
Regarding the capacity for intervention from Catalonia, this study says that renewable energies represent the area with the most room for maneuver and that the promotion of wind energy or the introduction of biofuels depends on the will of the Catalan government . In addition, it is noteworthy that in Catalonia there are few vacuum areas that can be used commercially and that the surfaces of dry land for energy crops are also limited. Regarding the wind potential, this study continues, it must be borne in mind that "territorial morphology, wind regime and the desire to preserve certain natural and landscape values, do not allow an intensive use of wind energy." This work places a maximum approximation of the order of 5,000 MW installed that could provide a maximum energy of the order of 0.95 Mtep per year. According to the authors, the other systems of renewable energy generation such as solar power will probably not generate significant values and also opt for the promotion of cogeneration both in the primary sector as well as in the industrial, residential or services sectors.
One of the most important aspects in this book is the section that analyzes the transition to a sustainable scenario in which an endogenous consumption limit of the order of 2 tep / hab year is established. The authors do not believe that it was reached in 2030. However, they base the horizon of energy policy at various points. It is necessary to effectively contain the demand, significantly reduce the energy intensity in order to achieve a technological improvement in the control of demand and configure an advanced social model that helps us achieve individual values such as the self-imposition of energy demand limits.
In order to limit the demand, they would also help, according to this study, the constitution of a compact territorial model, the taxation discouraging the overconsumption and the establishment of an energy certification system for new and rehabilitated buildings. The authors also value the promotion of hybrid vehicles with biofuel, the reduction of energy intensity by the industrial sector and the use of all local renewable energies.
This study believes that energy prices should internalize the entire cost, including environmental ones, always with a rigorous triple balance; energy, economic and environmental.
All this will only be possible, they end the conclusions, through a knowledge model that integrates energy as a core corpus "with new training, with new research centers, with new university degrees that make possible the consolidation of energy-efficient engineering global and with a new energy culture.
Ramon Folch is the director of the Estudi Ramon Folch (ERF), president of the Social Council of the UPC, as well as chair of the CETIB Sustainability Award Jury. Ivan Capdevila is an environmental consultant and technical director of the ERF.
For more information about this book, you can go to the web environment of the College of Industrial Technical Engineers of Barcelona where you can access all the content of this work published by the Generalitat of Catalonia.
