Second International Graduate Student Conference

SECOND INTERNATIONAL GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE EnergyEfficiencyand RenewableEnergySources SoutheastEuropeinfocus CONFERENCEPROCEEDINGS FROM14THOFJUNE2010 CONTENTS Acknowledgements..................................................................................................................................................iii Summary of the conference..................................................................................................................................iv Venue..............................................................................................................................................................................vi Committees…..............................................................................................................................................................vii Organizing committee…………………………………………………………………………………………vii Scientific committee……………………………………………………………………………………………vii Agenda of the conference......................................................................................................................................viii Biographies of the papers’ contributors……………………………………………………………………………x PAPERS Aleksandar D. Prodanov Solar Keymark – Solar Thermal Products in EU – Where is R. Macedonia?...................................................................................................................1 Ana Colovic Leskoska, Fidanka McGrath, Pippa Gallop Can the International Financial Institutions do more to support new renewables and energy efficiency in southeast Europe?.....................................................7 Andreja Naumoski Energy efficient decision support system in ecology with novel classification algorithm.......................................................................................................32 Igor Panchevski Adaptive street lighting………………………………………………………………………………….45 Maja Lazareska i Energy and the climate change……………………………………………………………………….55 Nikola Petkovski Storage of energy…………………………………………………………………………………………..64 Pellumb Gjinolli Geothermal Energy as source for heating in Kosovo……………………………………………77 Slobodan Parizoski Possibilities for Exploiting Solar Energy in Macedonia…………………………………………88 Tanja Ivanovska Dye-sensitized Solar Cells………………………………………………………………………………………97 ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS On behalf of the organizing committee I would like to express my gratitude to all participants who took part in the Second International Graduate Student Conference on Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Sources (Southeastern Europe in focus). Thank you all for your presentations and papers and for your bright ideas and dedication to the topics of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Sources. I want to express my gratitude especially to PhD Hristina Spasevska from the SOLTEC Center and the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies in Skopje Macedonia for her valuable help and input in the organization of the conference and especially for her moral and logistic support throughout this process. I would also like to thank the other members of the organizing committee, my colleague Natasha Hroneska and Igor Panchevski for their unconditional dedication to the organization of the conference. Special thanks go to the Dean of the Faculty PhD Mile Stankovski for the opening words and allowing this conference to be held at the premises of the Faculty as well as to Analytica’s Founding Council members and other staff for their support, patience and valuable advices and inputs. Last but not least I would like to thank the European Fund for the Balkans, our donors, without whose assistance and funding this event would have not been possible. Skopje, Macedonia 15th of July 2010 Member of the organizing committee Sonja Risteska iii SUMMARY OF THE CONFERENCE Within the EU Approximation and Integration Advocacy Programme together with the Energy and Infrastructure Programme, Analytica organized its Second International Graduate Student Workshop on the topic of “Implementing Energy Efficiency through Renewable Energy Solutions - are Southeast European Countries on track?””. The participants at the workshop were professors, PhD candidates, officials from the Energy Agency and the EU Mission in Skopje, professionals working in the field of energy, civil society organizations and post-graduate students from Macedonia, Serbia, Kosovo, Germany and other countries giving presentations on the topics of New Energy Efficiency Trends in the Western Balkans, Renewable Energy Technologies, Solar Energy Solutions and Regional Cooperation on EE and RES matters. This conference is part of a bigger project that Analytica is conducting called Energy policy, EU and the Western Balkans: challenges of reforms and accession - Republic of Macedonia as a case study financed by the European Fund for the Balkans in Belgrade, Serbia. The aim of the project is to contribute to faster EU integration of the Western Balkans states, and Macedonia in particular, by providing policy options and recommendations to improve the quality of the policy-making process in the field of energy policy. On the topic of energy efficiency and renewable energy sources, the Conference was opened with the presentations of PhD Hristina Spasevska from the SOLTEC Center at the FEIT. The panels that followed dealt with the EE and RES legislation and trends in the country, the on-going projects on local level on these matters and the experiences that CSOs have in dealing with energy efficiency projects. The last two panels were reserved for the post-graduate students and their presentations on solar energy solutions, RES case studies etc. Few of the presentations by Macedonian and foreign experts have raised the question of tardiness: Why the Balkans is always lagging behind Europe? And why the abundant renewable energy sources in this part of Europe are not exploited in economic and efficient way? The panelists have agreed that the latter is a result of inconsistency of policies. The conclusions were that EU institutions should take the lead in financing projects of renewable energy and EE, as the banks in this region and wider are still reluctant to start with financing of projects on a non-commercial level, seen as investments with high risk. On the other side new credit lines with lower interest rates should be made available for the private sector – for development of the EE and RE market. Through this kind of financial support developing countries (or no-OECD countries like Macedonia) will witness different benefits: creation of new jobs, support to the local economy, increase of the share of electricity produced by renewable energy sources in the total electricity production in the country, etc. Another conclusion of the conference discussions is related to the overall situation in the energy sector in the Western Balkans in the last two decades. It was underlined that there are certain political actors and structures that do not see any benefit from investing in energy efficiency and renewable energy and therefore they hinder their development. Resistance to these structures iv requires good organization, persistence, and big pressure by the CSO sector and the media. With a joint action and positive propaganda, through legislative amendments, organization of public discussions, and increasing of public awareness, the civil society and all interested parties should put a great pressure on the state institutions to prioritize RE and EE. Lobbing also should be directed towards EU institutions that should take in consideration the needs of the non-EU countries in the final European energy agenda, particularly when it comes to new investments in RE and EE. The success of the conference of Analytica and SOLTEC is in the attempt to bring together decision- makers, policy executors, academia, CSOs and students on a same table, where many provocative questions were raised. Some answers were given, but it is an area that is yet to come on the headlines of the energy policy of the governments in the region. Solutions are available; it is the political will and momentum that needs to be created. v VENUE The Conference was held at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies (FEIT), "Ss. Cyril and Methodius" University in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia. The Faculty is located in the Campus of Technical Research Area at the University, 3 km far from the Centre of Skopje. FEIT and its surroundings provided good service for organizing such type of events, and offered the visitors a warm welcome. vi COMMITTEES I. Organizing Committee • Sonja Risteska Research Fellow at Analytica, Think Tank. Responsible for the EU Approximation and Integration Advocacy Programme. • Natasha Hroneska Research Coordinator and Research Fellow at Analytica, Think Tank. Responsible for the Energy and Infrastructure Prgoramme. • Sani Demiri Director and also a Founding Member of Analytica, Think Tank. • Igor Panchevski Free-lance consultant for NGO’s and SOLTEC center for low cost solar cells technologies • PhD Hristina Spasevska President of Narodna Tehnika, Head of SOLTEC and Professor at the Faculty for Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies, Skopje. II. Scientific Committee • PhD Mile Stankovski Dean of the Faculty for Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies, Skopje. • PhD Atanas Iliev Associate professor at FEIT and Head of the EC and RP Institute. • PhD Hrisitna Spasevska President of Narodna Tehnika. Head of SOLTEC and Professor at the Faculty

Load more