Infrastructure Ontario Partnering to Modernize Ontario’s Infrastructure www.infrastructureontario.ca 1
Bio-energy and Ontario: Status Update Howlan Mullally Building Sustainability Specialist 1 Dundas St West Howlan.mullally@infrastructureontario.ca www.infrastructureontario.ca 2
Infrastructure Ontario • Crown corporation responsible for building, managing, financing and enhancing the value of Ontario public assets • Five lines of business: – Project Delivery: Manages the planning, design and delivery of major public infrastructure projects – Loan Program: Provides affordable long-term financing to help develop and renew public infrastructure – Real Estate Services: Oversees a diverse real estate portfolio, offering full service real estate advisory, planning, development and management services – Commercial Projects: Supports government economic development opportunities by identifying and leveraging private sector partnerships – Asset Optimization: Partnering with Provincial Ministries to help identify issues and related opportunities to unlock value in government assets www.infrastructureontario.ca 3
www.infrastructureontario.ca 4
Why for Ontario? GHG Targets GHG Emissions for IO Buildings • 15% reduction by 2020 140 • 37% by 2030 120 Electricity • 80% reduction by 2050 (,000’s of Tonnes) 100 Other (vs 1990) 80 CO 2 Fuel Oil 60 • Ways to further improve District GHG 40 Steam – Efficiency Improvements Natural Gas 20 – Fuel Switching to low 0 carbon sources 2006 2013 2014 www.infrastructureontario.ca 5
Why Focus on Heat? Commercial Buildings Majority of Space Heating Water Heating Energy is from Heating Space Cooling Plug Loads – Space heating – Water heating Lighting Auxiliary Motors Street Lighting Majority of heating in Ontario is from 5% fossil fuels 8% 19% 46% 12% 9% 1% Office Energy Use 2011 www.infrastructureontario.ca 6
Why BioHeat? Sustainable Renewable Available Local www.infrastructureontario.ca 7
Biogenic Forest Carbon Cycle www.infrastructureontario.ca 8
Wood Pellets 9 www.infrastructureontario.ca 9
Standards for Fuels • CSA/ISO 17225 Standards for Solid Biofuels – Fuel Specifications and Classes • Soon to be available – 8 additional standards for determination of key specifications www.infrastructureontario.ca 1 0
Third Party Certification • Forest Certification Programs • Wood Pellet Quality Programs www.infrastructureontario.ca 1 1
Comparing Fuel Prices www.infrastructureontario.ca 1 2
Installation Types New-Build Retrofit www.infrastructureontario.ca 1 4
Combustion Technologies Pellet Wood Fluidized Dust and Stoves Firewood Pellet Forced Air Chip Bed Co-firing Technology and Boilers Boilers Fireplaces Furnaces Boilers Boilers with Coal Residential Commercial/Institutional Application Industrial Batch Fuel Firewood/Briquettes Automatic Wood Wood Wood Pellets Wood Chips Fuel Pellets Pellets 2 – 20 15 – 40 5 – 100 50 – 1250 200 – 5 – 600 5 – 350 Scale kW kW kW kW 5000 kW MW MW www.infrastructureontario.ca 1 5
Combustion Technology Has Improved World Bioenergy Association, 2012, Small-Scale Biomass Heating www.infrastructureontario.ca 1 6
Supporting Biomass Heat Project Goal • To improve the business and policy environment for the use of solid biomass fuels for heat in Ontario Approach • Multi-ministry & multi-partner to leverage efforts and resources • Multi-faceted – enabling policy, research & innovation, investment & market development, outreach • Objectives & deliverables realized through sub-projects and annual work plans www.infrastructureontario.ca 1 7
Provincial Government Partners Group • Ministry of Energy • Ministry of the Environment and • Ministry of Aboriginal Climate Change Affairs • Ministry of Municipal • Ministry of Agriculture, Affairs and Housing Food and Rural Affairs • Ministry of Natural • Ministry of Economic Resources and Forestry Development, • Infrastructure Ontario Employment & Infrastructure / Ministry • Ministry of Northern of Research and Development and Mines Innovation www.infrastructureontario.ca 1 8
www.infrastructureontario.ca 1 9
www.infrastructureontario.ca 2 0
Bio-Heat Community of Practice • People who share a common interest and who work together to expand their individual and collective capacity to support the development of a domestic biomass heat market over time. • Monthly e-newsletter • Annual workshops: http://www.confederationc.on.ca/appliedresearch/BioHeatWorkshop To sign-up for the e-newsletter contact: Mark.Saari@ontario.ca www.infrastructureontario.ca 2 1
Canadian Interest in Bioenergy Many Canadian jurisdictions are implementing strategies for bioenergy www.infrastructureontario.ca 2 2
Wood Heat IT ISN’T THAT SCARY www.infrastructureontario.ca 2 3
Additional Reference Material Ontario’s Forests – MNR Website http://www.mnr.gov.on.ca/en/Business/Forests/index.html WPAC - Wood Pellet Association of Canada http://www.pellet.org/ BTEC - Biomass Thermal Energy Council (US) http://www.biomassthermal.org/ OEC - Oekoenergie Cluster (Austria) http://www.oec.at/en/partners-products/ www.infrastructureontario.ca 2 4
Recommend
More recommend
