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HPA News Ankara- Hydro Politics Association (HPA) Round Table Conferences Series continues. Last one was organised in the Association Center in Ankara on On July 7 2018 . invited representatives from Engineering chambers , academics and energy expert participated the interactive round table meeting about “What is the role of Renewable Energy against climate change effects”
In the begining of meeting President of HPA , energy and water policies specialist Dursun Yıldız made a presentations and open the floor invited experts for contrubution .
During this presentation the round table conference participants made their comments and evaluations about presented key points on the issue.
Interactive round table conference -discussion continued responding to the following questions
- The Basic Goal Is Low Carbon Economy or Renewable Energy?
- Why is the rate of productivity in solar energy still low?
- From the beginning of 21 st Century ,Renewable Energy installed capacity have reached 2 500 000 MW in the world . Has it only meet increasing energy demands?
- Can biodiesel and ethanol be used as renewables instead of fossil fuels affect global food safety ?
- Hydroelectric Energy Is Renewable Energy ?
- Will renewable targets be realistic without developing hydropower ?
- Is there any harm in putting zero carbon targets ?
- Is the development of renewable resources harmful ?
- Are unrealistic targets dangerous for the climate change struggle?
- What are the consequences of exaggerating the role of renewable resources in the fight against climate change ?
- Are those who say it is too late to fight climate change, but that only precautions will be taken in this regard, are they aware of 100% renewable targets ?
- So far, wind and solar energy investment have reached a total of 2000 Billion $ .Has this investment be helpfull enough to start reducing CO2 emissions .
- When the energy production efficiency ( 18 % ) from solar energy, which is still too low, when this increase with the new generation of panels, which countries will be solar waste garbage ?
- Is solar and wind energy production ensured that renewable energy is a solution when storage technology develops ?
- Is only one of the vehicles for the target of transitioning to renewable energy sources to the low carbon economy ?
- Is switching to a low-carbon economy just waiting for these developments in renewable energy ?
During the round table meeting obstcales of transition to low carbon economy were also considered . Tecnological development on energy storage system were discussed and it’s effect was taken into account for the future of renewable energy use.
In the conference -discussion , some international organizations road map report to reach 100 % renewable energy transition target has been found a bit unrealistic.
In the conference ,the most important question has arised related with the energy future of heating system. Although heating accounts for more than %40 of total final energy demand -more than the entire power sector -it doesn’t rank on the agenda in energy debates.Till now there was much less awarenes about the role of renewables in the heating sector and was not sepesifically discussed. Therefore the question was
“how renewables could transform the heating sector and what Technologies could be best utilised?”
In the World, on one side the renewables effect on decarbonized future of the World is discussed,on the other hand the new oil and natural gas platform drilling efforts are still very active in the Arctic and Eastern Med as well as Central Asia. Therefore participant of the meeting considered that transition to the zero carbon industry wont be very fast and smooth.
Hydro politics Association Interactive Round Table Conference minutes of meetings will be relased in the HPA web site in soon.
HPA Interactive Roundtable meeting participants
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