Biennial Regional Energy Survey 1982 to 2006 - Report R08/14 - February 2008 There has for the first time been a downward trend in overall energy usage since 1982, mainly due to a slight downward usage in liquid fuels. Total energy consumption in Canterbury showed, for the first time since 1982, a slight decline (an average decrease of 0.1 % per annum) over the survey period (2004 to 2006). This is in contrast to the long-term trend for energy consumption, which since 1982 as risen at an average rate of 2.6 % per annum. The survey also highlights the rising importance of diesel as a transport fuel which in 2005 for the first time vehicle diesel consumption (in terms of energy content) at a higher level than vehicle petrol consumption. Oil products, while contributing 62 % of total energy consumption for the region, declined at a rate of 1.2 % per annum over the survey period. In contrast, electricity consumption increased at 2.4 % per annum.

Canterbury Regional Energy Strategy Project - A Preliminary Stage 1 Report on Energy Security Issues in Canterbury

Environment Canterbury is a member of the Canterbury Regional Energy Forum, which is examining energy risk, resilience and organisational issues associated with ‘grid’ and ‘non-grid’ energy systems. Through the Canterbury Regional Energy Strategy Project (CRESP), the Forum envisages a new approach to planning that takes better account of regional opportunities, industry capacity and local needs. As CRESP becomes more developed, high consumer response / local energy supply response / status quo centralised market scenarios will be investigated and supported by collaborative actions for any near-term opportunities. Executive Summary of report also available. NEW

EEA Conference Paper June 2006 - Energy Into The Future
Canterbury communities are using increasing amounts of energy and are becoming increasingly reliant on the delivery of high quality energy services. There is considerable dissatisfaction with current energy provision, including electricity, and people are asking how as a region we can do better in meeting our future energy needs and what the alternatives are. There is a growing policy emphasis towards sustainable development aimed to give better effect to Government’s strategies for action on energy. And a vital component is addressing energy security and supply demand issues within the framework of creating for Canterbury an affordable, reliable and sustainable energy system.

Empowering Canterbury: Defining A Role For Environment Canterbury In Energy Policy
This report has been prepared for the ERST 635 Group Case Study, as part of the Master of Environmental Policy (MEP) degree at Lincoln University in 2006. This year’s case study focuses on determining the optimal energy policy role for Environment Canterbury.

Energy into the Future for the Canterbury Region - Report U05/90
Environment Canterbury (ECan) has undertaken to debate the issues associated with the provision of a sustainable energy system for Canterbury, as identified in the Regional Energy Strategy (RES) released in April 2004 (ECan 2004). These issues were debated as seminar/workshop forums in late 2005, as part of the on-going RES consultation process.

Peak Oil and Climate Change: Issues facing Environment Canterbury (Report U07/71)
This report examines projected climate change and Peak Oil impacts on council services and operations by investigating qualitatively at how the combined effects of climate and Peak Oil will impact on ECan’s services and operations over the LTCCP period (2006-2016). A second part of the report provides an update on the issues surrounding carbon and emissions trading. NEW!

Regional Energy Strategy 2004 - Report R04/11
The Environment Canterbury regional energy strategy aims to help the community to move towards a more secure future by reducing Canterbury’s growing dependence on non-sustainable sources of energy. Environment Canterbury has a responsibility to promote the sustainable management of natural resources, including energy, within the region. The strategy defines the guiding principles, outcomes and methods through which the organisation proposes to achieve this.

Regional Energy Survey 1982 to 2004 - Report R06/28
The results presented serve to illustrate the overall trend of increasing, rather than stabilising or decreasing regional energy use, and our dependence on oil products. Our ever increasing dependence on energy coincides at a time when New Zealand (and Canterbury) is facing significant future uncertainty in the area of availability of some energy sources. Total energy consumption in Canterbury increased by an average of 2.8% per annum during the survey interval of 2002 - 2004. Transport sector energy use grew by 4.0% per annum during the survey period and accounted for 57% of the region’s energy consumption in the same period.

Regional Energy Survey 1982-2002 - Report R03/16
This report presents the findings of the Environment Canterbury Regional Energy Survey, which analyses fuel and energy traded in Canterbury and urban Christchurch. The Regional Energy Survey was carried out between March and June 2003. It is part of an ongoing commitment by Environment Canterbury to monitor the energy consumption from wood, coal, electricity and oil products. The report contributes to the development of the Regional Energy Strategy and provides a means to assess the effectiveness of energy related projects.

Renewable Energy Assessment: Canterbury Region
This EECA-commissioned study aims to identify and assess the renewable energy potential in the Canterbury Region and assist ECan to identify where it can play a role in realising that potential using both regulatory and non-regulatory approaches. The estimates of renewable energy potential seek to identify major resources that are available and to provide an indication of their relative magnitude.

Renewable Energy Resources in Canterbury 2002 - Report U02/26
The purpose of this report is to summarise existing literature on renewable energy potential in Canterbury, discuss the barriers to renewable energy development and use in Canterbury, and to show ways that stakeholders, including Environment Canterbury, may assist in overcoming these barriers in the future.

SB07 Conference Paper - Environment Canterbury Clean Heat project
The development of the Clean Heat brand has raised community awareness of the negative health effects of pollution and the acceptance of the role the community plays in the use of domestic solid fuel heating. While the CHP seeks to address air quality issues in Canterbury, there are associated energy issues that are less well understood or debated, including lack of progress in improving household energy efficiency and the trend toward lower use of wood as a residential fuel in favour of increasing use of electricity (via heat pumps). The energy – air quality policy interface raises questions regarding regional energy security and efforts to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions; and this paper is an initial examination of these issues.