Approved by Batumi City Council on 27th March, 2014 Resolution #54 Batumi Sustainable Energy Action Plan Batumi, 2014 Contents 1 Introduction – Covenant of Mayors and Batumi City.................................................................. 6 2 Batumi City – Brief Overview ....................................................................................................... 6 3 Sustainable Energy Development Strategy ................................................................................. 12 4 Transport ...................................................................................................................................... 22 4.1 Sector Overview ................................................................................................................... 22 4.2 Methodology ........................................................................................................................ 27 4.3 Base year inventory .............................................................................................................. 28 4.4 Greenhouse Gas Emissions BAU Scenario (2013-2020) .................................................. 30 4.5 Action Plan for Emissions Reduction from Batumi Transport Sector ............................... 31 5 Buildings ....................................................................................................................................... 38 5.1 Sector overview .................................................................................................................... 38 5.1.1 Current Situation............................................................................................................. 39 5.1.2 Apartment Blocks ............................................................................................................ 44 5.2 Methodology ........................................................................................................................ 49 5.3 Base Year Inventory ............................................................................................................. 50 5.4 Greenhouse Gas Emissions BAU Scenario (2013-2020) ..................................................... 50 5.5 Emissions Reduction Action Plan from the Buildings Sector of Batumi .......................... 51 6 Public lighting .............................................................................................................................. 70 6.1 Overview of the Sector ........................................................................................................ 70 6.2 Methodology ........................................................................................................................ 71 6.3 Inventory of Baseline Year .................................................................................................. 71 6.4 Greenhouse Gas Emissions BAU Scenario (2013-2020) ..................................................... 71 6.5 Action Plan for Mitigation of the Emissions from Batumi Public Lighting ...................... 72 7 Solid waste and wastewater ......................................................................................................... 73 7.1 Overview of the sector ......................................................................................................... 73 7.1.1 Solid waste ....................................................................................................................... 74 7.1.2 Wastewater ...................................................................................................................... 77 7.2 Methodology ........................................................................................................................ 78 7.2.1 Solid waste ....................................................................................................................... 78 7.2.2 Wastewater ...................................................................................................................... 79 7.3 Baseline year inventory and GHG emissions baseline scenario (2012-2020) .................. 80 7.3.1 Solid waste ....................................................................................................................... 80 7.3.2 Wastewater ...................................................................................................................... 81 7.4 Action Plan for the reduction of emissions from Batumi solid waste and wastewater sector 82 8 Greening ....................................................................................................................................... 88 8.1 Overview of the sector ......................................................................................................... 88 8.2 Methodology ........................................................................................................................ 89 8.2.1 IPCC Methodology.......................................................................................................... 89 8.2.2 CO2FIX V 3.1Model........................................................................................................ 90 8.3 The base year inventory ........................................................................................................... 91 8.3 Batumi Greening Action Plan ........................................................................................... 100 9 The strategy of raising awareness of the large segments of the society and target groups on the perspectives of sustainable energy development in Batumi and its economic and social results and personnel training .......................................................................................................................................... 104 10 Monitoring, verification and reporting of implementation of Sustainable Energy Action Plan (SEAP) and mitigation of the emissions of greenhouse gases ............................................................. 115 Tables: Table 1. Greenhouse gas emissions in Batumi in 2012 (tonnes of CO2 equivalent.) ....................... 18 Table 2. Greenhouse gas emissions in Batumi in 2020 (tonnes of CO2 equivalent.) ....................... 18 Table 3. Emission savings in various sectors according to Batumi SEAP ......................................... 20 Table 4. Transport being in permanent ownership in Batumi (cars) .............................................. 23 Table 5. Vehicles being in permanent ownership in Batumi (public transport ) .......................... 25 Table 6. Vehicles being in permanent ownership (commercial transport) ..................................... 26 Table 7. Dynamics in the number of visitors to Adjara Autonomous Republic (years 2004 – 2012) ........................................................................................................................................................................... 26 Table 8. Batumi transport characteristics .......................................................................................... 29 Table 9. Final energy consumption of Batumi Transport Sector (megawatt hours) – 2012 ............ 30 Table 10. Greenhouse gas emissions CO2 eq. (t)_-2012 from the Batumi Transport Sector ......... 30 Table 11. Population growth forecast in Batumi (except for tourists) ............................................ 30 Table 12. Growth forecast of the Gross Domestic Product (constant prices) in Batumi ................ 31 Table 13. Final energy consumption in Batumi transport sector (Mwh) - 2020 ............................. 31 Table 14. Greenhouse Gas Emissions CO2 eq. (tone) from Batumi Transport Sector –2020 ........... 31 Table 15. Measures to be taken in transport sector of Batumi ........................................................ 32 Table 16. Ongoing projects initiated by the self-government of Batumi ......................................... 36 Table 17. Classification of buildings in Batumi ................................................................................. 40 Table 18. Private Houses in Batumi ................................................................................................... 41 Table 19. Residential buildings built before 2000 ............................................................................. 42 Table 20.Residential buildings in Batumi according to the data of 2013 ......................................... 42 Table 21. Distribution of buildings by functionality and administrative units ............................... 43 Table 22. Distribution of apartment blocks by administrative units ................................................ 45 Table 23. Works accomplished in 2007-2013 .................................................................................... 46 Table 24. Accomplished infrastructure projects and planned measures .......................................... 47 Table 25. Final Energy Consumption by the Building Sector of Batumi -2012 ............................... 50 Table 26. Greenhouse Gas emissions (t) CO2 eq. from the building sector of Batumi-2011 ........... 50 Table 27. Final energy consumption by the building sector of Batumi (MWh) - 2020 ................. 50 Table 28. Greenhouse Gas Emissions CO2 eq (tons) from the Buildings Sectors of Batumi -2020 ..........................................................................................................................................................................