National Energy Strategy Simulation
The Territories
Linjing Xie
Maryam Zoughi
Xiaoyan Xu
March 25, 2015
Weaknesses and Missed Opportunities in Energy Policy
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Expensive heating and electricity cost
Insufficient energy supply
Aggressively promoting oil & gas development and mining activity
No or small territory-wide targets for reducing GHG emissions
R & D: Inappropriate renewable energy established
Little progress on a territory-wide building code for energy efficiency
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Oil Sands/Oil & Gas Market Access
National/International
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Pipeline: Canol Road; shale oil production
Pipeline: Oil sands from Alberta to Tuktoyaktuk (NWT)
A 2,400-kilometre-long railway: Fort McMurray to the Trans-Alaska
Mackenzie NG pipeline: NG from the Beaufort Sea to tie into gas pipelines in
northern Alberta Pipeline
Territorial
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Amauligak oil and gas field in the Mackenzie Valley Delta and Beaufort Sea
Domestic refineries
Feasibility assessment of liquefied natural gas (LNG)
First Nation opposition to the rapid expansion of oil sands development
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Climate Policy
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Issues:
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Thawing permafrost, changing sea ice patterns, reduction in sea ice thickness and cover, rising sea levels and temperature,
melting glaciers and extreme or unexpected weather events (Source: The Pan-Territorial Adaptation Strategy, 2011)
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Initial positions:
National:
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Regulations/policies restricting GHG emissions for each provinces
Provincial:
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Collaboration with other provinces in monitoring, assessing and predicting the impacts of climate change
Territorial:
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Collaboration of territorial governments to work together on climate change
Partnership between first nation and territorial research centre to inventorying energy and GHG
emissions
Source:
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Renewable Energy
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High hydro potential, especially mini-hydro (run-of-river) potential
Wind power potential
Demand for more reliable and less expensive energy service
Northwest Territories
Proposed Taltson expansion; Mini-hydro for communities; Extension of the existing hydro grid
Snare hydro near Yellowknife, and the Talston hydro dam near Fort Smith
The Hamlet of Tuktoyaktuk in the Northwest Territories is promoting a regional hub-and-spoke model based on the Alaskan
experience
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The wind-diesel hybrid systems in the Beaufort region is under planning
Yukon
3 established hydro plants with the ability to generate 75 MW
The largest wind turbines in the North stand prominently on Haeckel Hill near Whitehorse in Yukon. These turbines have an
installed capacity of 800 kW and have been operating since the 1990s
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Nunavut
Assessments of hydroelectric potential have been completed for various locations near Iqaluit and in the Kivalliq region
The Nunavut power utility company, Qulliq Energy Corporation, is working toward installing a wind-hydrogen-diesel generation
plant in Cape Dorset
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3 wind projects have been attempted
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Conclusion
Cost
Effectiveness
Environmental
Effectiveness
EE & Conservation
20% increase by 2020
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+1
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+4
Hydro, wind Power
20% increase by 2020
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+1
+1
+1
+2
R&D: Renewable
energy technologies,
Environmental impacts
-1
+1
+1
+1
+2
Energy storage &
backup
0
+1
+1
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+2
Hybrid cap & tradeCarbon neutral
operations by 2020
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+1
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-1
+1
Oil sand & NG
pipelines, Refineries
+1
-1
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-1
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Alternatives
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Criteria
Supply
Sufficiency
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Acceptability
Total
Score
5
Thank you!
Questions?
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Resources
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Energy Supply
100%
90%
80%
70%
60%
50%
40%
NWT
30%
Yukon
20%
10%
0%
Hydro
Diesel
NG
Electricity Generation
Wind &
Solar
Oil & NG
Biomass
Propane/
other
Heat Generation
 Nunavut: 100% fossil fuel for heat and electricity generation
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