The Dunedin Energy Baseline Study

Abstract

The Dunedin Energy Baseline Study was a joint project between Dunedin City Council (DCC), the Otago Chamber of Commerce and the Centre for Sustainability at the University of Otago. It involved stocktaking and analysis of the energy inputs to the city of Dunedin, to assist with planning for the future development of the city. Dunedin city is taken as the geographic extent of the city council’s jurisdiction, i.e. including the Middlemarch, Taieri Plain and Waikouaiti regions, as well as the urban area of the city itself. The study was conducted between May and September 2015, and the data collected were for inputs of consumer energy to Dunedin for the year 2014. The study is a high-level estimation of the total amount of each energy type used within the city and, where data is available, an indication of the most significant end uses.