CDM Albania
It 'was recorded in the month of May the first small-scale Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) project in Albania. The project was carried out by SOL S.p.A through its controlled Hydroenergy Sh.p.k. in Albania with the assistance of Techne Consulting which drafted the CDM-PDD Project Design Document and has followed the whole process for its approval.
The CDM mechanism of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is one of the flexible mechanisms under the Kyoto Protocol (Art. 12) which allows companies in industrialized countries with emission limitations to implement projects aimed at reducing emissions of greenhouse gases in developing countries without emission constraints.
The purpose of this mechanism is two-fold; on the one hand it allows the developing countries to have cleaner technologies and orientate on the path of sustainable development; the other allows the reduction of emissions where it is most cost-effective and thus reducing the overall cost of fulfillment of obligations under the Kyoto Protocol. The emissions avoided by the implementation of projects generating carbon credits or CERs (Certified Emission Reductions) can then be used to meet the national commitments.
The project involves the construction of a hydroelectric plant with an output of 4.8 MW that allows the production of 23.3 GWh year of electricity and savings of 5807 tons of CO2 a year.
The PDD is published on the website of the UNFCCC (http://unfccc.int/2860.php ) in the section on CDM (http://cdm.unfccc.int ) at page http://cdm.unfccc.int/Projects/DB/RINA1419858284.4/view .
E2Road-Visum
Techne Consulting has recently created a new interface between its model for the estimation of fuel consumption and air pollutants emissions from road traffic E2Road and the model for the evaluation of traffic flows VISUM.
E2Road currently reads the results of the most popular models for the evaluation of traffic flows (EMME and VISUM) and provides the estimate of fuel consumption and emissions of all air pollutants on individual links of the simulations according to the latest methodology in EMEP/EEA Air Pollutants Emission Inventory Guidebook.
Air quality modeling system
Recently, Techne Consulting released to the Sardinia Region, within the project “Update of air quality monitoring network and of air emission sources” (PO FESR 2007-2013– Target operativo 4.1.2. – Activity 4.1.2A), a complete integrated modeling system for regional air pollution forecasting.
The system in modality “daily forecast” permits the forecast of air pollution on the regional territory, for the main pollutants subject to legislative rules, processing the evaluation of pollutant concentrations for the next day. The system is performed every day.
Beside this, it is also possible to use the system with modality “evaluation on request” in order to study the effect of emission mitigation measures able to improve air quality and provide a decisional support in the study of potential impacts of existing and future emission sources on the regional territory.
Sicilia Region 2015 Air pollutants emission inventory
ARPA Sicilia has recently published the air pollutants emissions inventory of the Sicilia Region (2015). The work was done as part of the agreement between ARPA Sicilia and the Regional Department of Environment which had as its main objective the preparation of the emission inventory through the use of the software package "Enviplan" already acquired by the Department as a result of Convention with the company Techne Consulting srl. To process all the information relating to emission sources ARPA Sicily was supported by Techne Consulting.
UNECE Task Force on Emission Inventories and Projections
On 13-14 maggio 2014 an annual meeting of UNECE Task Force on Emission Inventories and Projections (TFEIP) was held.
TFEIP develops the emission inventory EMEP and provides a technical forum to hrmonize the emissions , establish methodologies for evaluation of emissions and projections data and identify the iusses connected to emissions reporting.
TFEIP is responsabile of development and maintenance of EMEP/EEA air pollutant emission inventory guidebook (already known as EMEP CORINAIR emission inventory guidebook) used for emissions estimate and of NFR Nomenclature for reporting and SNAP (Selected Nomenclature for Air Pollution).
TFEIP instituted five groups of experts (Expert Panel) in priority sectors; two panels on trasversal themes of review and of the projections and three groups of sectors “combustion and industry”, “trasport” and “agricolture and nature””.
The meeting was attended by over 100 experts in emissions inventories coming from European countries and of EECCA, Techne Consulting, with its technical director actively partecipated in the works by submitting in the special session of the Expert panel Combustion & Industry a relation on “Wood Combustion Emission Factors and Activity data” and a relation on “New activities for the inventories: concrete batching”.