Improving Energy Efficiency in Ploiesti, Romania

The Tool for Rapid Assessment of City Energy (TRACE) is used for conducting rapid assessments of energy use in cities. It helps prioritize sectors with significant energy savings potential, and identifies appropriate energy efficiency interventions...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Mot, Manuela, Bose, Ranjan, Burduja, Sebastian, Ionescu-Heroiu, Marcel
Format: Report
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2016
Subjects:
AIR
CAR
GHG
OIL
TAX
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/04/18892695/romania-improving-energy-efficiency-ploiesti
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24364
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Summary:The Tool for Rapid Assessment of City Energy (TRACE) is used for conducting rapid assessments of energy use in cities. It helps prioritize sectors with significant energy savings potential, and identifies appropriate energy efficiency interventions across six sectors-transport, municipal buildings, water and waste water, public lighting, solid waste, and power and heat. It is a simple, low-cost, user-friendly, and practical tool that can be applied in any socioeconomic setting. This report is based on the implementation of the TRACE tool in Ploiesti in February 2013, and it outlines ideas on what the city could further do to improve its energy efficiency performance. It details the analysis carried out and the recommendations derived as a result, for energy efficiency action plan, district heating maintenance and upgrade, non-motorized transport, public transport development, parking restraint measures, traffic restraint measures, municipal buildings audit and retrofit, and street lighting timing program.