Quarterly Newsletter Enhancing Capacity for Low Emission Development Strategies F a l l 20 1 4 EC-LEDS Clean Energy Program

The First LEED and BREEAM Introduction in

The first LEED training and BREEAM introductory course in Georgia was schemes, operated by the US Green Building Council and (2) Building conducted on September 30th October 1st by the Alliance to Save En- Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM), ergy, in partnership with Green Building Council Georgia, both partners operated by BRE Global (UK). Energy Efficiency Is A Smart Choice of Winrock under the EC-LEDS Clean Energy Program. The training was led by international experts Duygu Erten (PE, LEED Faculty, DGNB and BREEAM Assessor and founder of the Turkish Green Building Council), The training course was designed to meet requirements of a diverse What is Energy Efficiency? Does Energy Efficiency mean Eren Bastanogly (LEED AP) and Katya Kaya (BREEAM Assessor, LEED group of Georgian professionals from private entities, NGOs, govern- comfort and/or savings? What you don't know about en- Green Associate), all of TurkECO, a green building consulting firm. ment organizations and individual consultants. This is the first significant support in Georgia for building capacity in the green building sector. ergy efficient lighting? Do you think Energy Efficiency meas- Training covered the two most developed rating systems in the world: The trainees will form a core group of professionals to participate in a ures contribute to climate change mitigation? (1) Leadership in energy and Environmental Design (LEED) new buildings technical committee for supporting certification of buildings using LEED This is a number of questions given to the citizens and and major renovations and existing buildings operation/maintenance and BREEAM in Georgia. visitors of in front of the huge energy efficient light bulbs in Batumi Boulevard. Low Emission Development Strategy (LEDS) Process On August 31rd Batumi residents and tourists were chal- The importance of LEDS was emphasized by the PM of Georgia in his The SWGs, as well as the Analytical Department of the Ministry of En- speech at the highest level of the UN Climate Summit. Georgia took the ergy, have gathered data from various sources, which was then analyzed lenged to participate in a street quiz and competition. The responsibility to work hard together with the world’s nations to reduce to estimate the energy and non-energy Business as Usual (BAU) emis- next day energy efficiency has become a subject of street carbon emissions and contribute to a better global environment. The EC sions scenarios through 2030. art on the wall of Batumi Port in the entrance of Batumi. -LEDS Clean Energy Program works together with Georgia’s Low Emis- sion Development Strategy (LEDS) Committee, which is tasked with In September 2014, Mr. DeLaquil, an invited expert from Decision Ware Enhancing Capacity for Low Emission Development developing and implementing Georgia’s LEDS, including developing poli- Group (DWG), held several meetings and trainings for the EWG and cies and programs to support Georgia’s commitment. Strategies (EC-LEDS) Clean Energy Program held a two- SWGs. He introduced the MARKAL Georgia model which has been de- day Awareness Campaign ’Energy Efficiency Is A Smart The LEDS Committee includes a Steering Committee led by the Minister veloped with USAID support since 2010, and used extensively for energy Choice’ in Batumi. The purpose of the campaign was to of Environment, an Expert Working Group (EWG) and Sectorial Sub- planning by the Ministry of Energy. The model enables comparison of Working Groups (SWGs) for various sectors. The EWG and SC met in projected emissions and costs for different policies that reduce or se- raise awareness of the Georgian population on the benefits May and September to learn about how MARKAL Georgia will be used quester emissions, compared to the Business-As-Usual (BAU) projection. of sustainable energy consumption, energy cost savings to analyze options for reducing emissions from the energy, transport, through energy efficiency, and benefits of energy efficient industrial, waste, forestry, and agriculture sectors and increasing carbon technologies, including energy efficient lighting, home appli- sinks (sequestration). ances, buildings, waste management, etc.

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Overall Project Goals

During the five years of the program, The EC -LE DS GIORGI ERMAKOV , Clean Energy Program is Mayor of Batumi: expected to reduce GHG emissions in Georgia by at least 236,372.9 metric tons ‘Batumi has under- of CO2 equivalent, facilitate taken a commitment to up to $14 million in private reduce CO2 emissions sector investments in clean b y 2 0-21% by 2020. energy, and lead to energy EC-LEDS Awareness Campaign was joined by USAID’s Project Waste Management Tech- There are a series of nologies in the Regions (WMTR). savings of up to 315 GWh measures to be imple- mented under the (the equivalent of approxi- Covenant of Mayors by mately $22 million). signatory cities di- rectly connected to energy efficiency’

EC-LEDS Brought Together Georgian Municipalities

In mid-September Batumi Sheraton Hotel hosted ten The drafts of the and SEAPs have Georgian municipalities to address the best solutions been sent to the relevant Municipalities by Win- rock International for their final feedback and ap- for climate change mitigation measures. The USAID proval. The next step will be the submission of the Deputy Mission Director Thomas Morris greeted SEAPs to the Covenant of Mayors office by the Deputy Minister of Energy; the Deputy Mayor Municipalities. and management of relevant municipal departments;

Mayors of Batumi, Poti, Zugdidi, Kutaisi, Akhaltsikxe, In parallel to development of SEAP reports, Remis- and ; Vice-Mayor; Deputy Governor of Cross-Cutting Issues sia elaborated the Municipal Emission Inventory, NINA KHATISKATSI, Zestafoni; and representatives of the Georgian De- Projection and Mitigation Planning Tool (muni- partment of Statistics, the Covenant of Mayors East EIPMP), an analytical tool supporting SEAP devel- Deputy Tbilisi Mayor: Office, ECOFYS, and NALAG. opment. T h e E C - LEDS Clean Energy

Program will address con- Sustainable Development Centre “Remissia”, co- cerns and opportunities with ‘Today’s meeting is an respect to youth, gender and leads the implementation of the Component One In Year Two, EC-LEDS plans to submit 3 new people with disabilities opportunity for the SEAPs for Poti, Rustavi and Gori municipalities and (PWD) to incorporate them together with Winrock International, the prime to significantly update the Tbilisi SEAP that was in each component of EC - newly elected govern- holder of the EC-LEDS cooperative agreement with LEDS. developed in 2011, as well as developing a Moni- USAID. Remissia is assisting 10 different municipali- toring Report for Tbilisi Municipality. EC-LEDS The ECLEDS outreach team ment of Tbilisi, as will produce the specific also plans to develop three Sustainable Energy well as for regional ties to develop and implement Sustainable Energy promotional/educational ma- Offices (SEOs) or Regional Sustainable Energy Action Plans (SEAPs) and is developing an analytical terial for disabled children municipalities, to un- Centers to support implementation of SEAPS. and adults. Deaf, dumb and tool to be used for selecting mitigation options and Training will be provided to 10 municipalities on blind people will receive derstand and analyze materials via special forms programs. using the muni-EIPMP tool to develop emissions and methods using sign lan- the current situation inventories, Business-As-Usual (BAU) projections, guage and Braille. In Year One, two new SEAPs (including Monitoring, and analyzing and selecting mitigation options using regarding Sustainable Reporting and Verification (MRVs) Plans) were pre- the MUNI-EIPMP tool. EC-LEDS will also assist Energy Action Plans.” pared, for Zugdidi and Kutaisi Municipalities, while municipalities in elaborating project proposals. EC- the existing SEAP for the Batumi Municipality that LEDS will launch its grant program and plans to was submitted to the Covenant of Mayors (CoM) issue at least 6 grants for projects in SEAP munici- has been updated (mainly the building and transport palities and identify other sources of financing for sectors).