Uploaded on 2017-03-23 by Angie Ramon

The Sankey Diagram - creating policy to reduce CO2 emissions 1. What are the dominant fossil fuels used in your country? According with the information contained in the www.iea.org the dominant fossil fuels used in Spain are oil, natural gas and coal. 2. Where are the dominant fossil fuels mainly used for in your country? (e.g. transport, industry, non-energy use etc.) Oil is the mainly fossil fuel used for transport, a 95 percent. In industry the mainly is natural gas, with a 46 percent It is also noteworthy that the electricity generation is provided by natural gas and coal in a significant percentage, although not the largest one. 3. It is your task to create a new policy in order to improve the environmental friendly and sustainable sources and consumption of energy of your country. How would you do that? Think of how you can improve the sources and the consumption of energy. The last report on the State of the Union about energy, revealed that the major problem for Spain is a too much dependence on fossil fuels, 17 points above the average of the EU-28 countries. In the last 20 years, natural gas consumption has tripled, from 7.7 percent to 22 percent of gross national energy consumption. Spain has no oilfields nor gas exchanges. So most experts recommend disconnecting gas from energy generation and focus on renewable energy forms but this has not been the political choice of the recent governments. In 2014, (latest year with available data), wind energy generated 27.9 megawatts for the whole of Spain, while the average in the last decade has been above 1000 megawatts per year. With regard to photovoltaic energy, it closed 2014 with 22 megawatts. Less than in United Kingdom! The principal measures to address this problem have already been proposed by prominent economists, and civil society organizations: Promote energy savings and energy efficiency. Madrid Air Quality and Climate Change Plan includes measures on the possibilities and responsibilities of local government as development of awareness programmes for citizens but State holds exclusive competence in energy policies. That is why the central Government should intervene defining a regulatory framework for the electric companies to invest more in renewable energies. If we increase CO2 emissions, State, in other words, all the Spanish citizens, will be obliged selling of carbon rights. Electric companies are reluctant that consumers and small companies may be allowed to generate their own electricity through renewable sources.