The presentation on 53rd ERSA Congress, Palermo, August 28th, 2013

1. OFF-GRID RENEWABLE ENERGY AS A
CHANCE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
OF THE SOUTH OF RUSSIA
Ratner Svetlana
Institute of Control Science, Moscow

2. Carbon intensity of some economies in the world
(amount of greenhouse gas emissions /GDP)

3. Russian Electricity production by sources, 2010.

4. Barriers to Technology Diffusion
According to IEA
• Technical
• Economic
(Efficiency, capacities, output, finantial)
• Institutional (including legal)
• Behavioural (Informational)
According to S.Shelton, Georgia Institute of
Technology
• Infrastructure

5. Technological scheme of electrical power
supply in Russia

6. The level of centralization of population and
economic activity in the major cities in some
regions

7. Typical apartment house

10. Focus of research
• Small wind energy systems (SWT)
• Solar thermal collectors
• Heat Pumps
• Biogas plants
• Solar PV panels

11. Method of research
• JEDI model (input-output): environmental
effects, number of jobs, salaries, and overall
economic activity
• Identification of the potential beneficiaries
(Force Field Analysis, Kurt Lewin)

12. Environmental Effects
Technology Potential Market Potential
Environmental
Effects
Small Wind 1,760 SWT
installations a year
5,000 tons of GHG
Solar Thermal 1,760 2 sq.m
installations a year
10,000 tons GHG
Biogas plants 33 poultries
8 pig farms
The decrease in
waste water as 0,3
billion m3;
20,700 tons GHG
Heat Pumps 15,542 installations
a year
20,800 tons of GHG

13. Potential beneficiaries
• Domestic producers of small wind turbines
(13% of world manufactures)
• Solar cells manufacturers (2 of well-known
manufacturers are located in Krasnodar)
• Small service companies
• Companies with foreign capital (by LLC "Klaas-
Kuban“)
• Biogas-station producers
• Population

14. The perspectives of development
• The modeling of interaction between groups
of potential beneficiaries and pollutant-
industries lobbies
• Investigation of information barriers and
cross-country comparisons;

15. References
Barriers to Technology Diffusion: the Case of Solar
Thermal Technologies. Cédric
Philibert, International Energy Agency, 2006
Lewin K. (1943). Defining the "Field at a Given
Time.“ Psychological Review. 50: 292-310.
Republished in Resolving Social Conflicts & Field
Theory in Social Science, Washington, D.C.:
American Psychological Association, 1997.
Lewin, K. (1946) Action research and minority
problems. J Soc. Issues 2(4): 34-46

16. Thank you!
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