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SO₂and NMVOC emissions from energy sector in Slovenia decreased in period 1990-2012. Emissions of NO_x and NH₃ have not decreased as much as SO₂and NMVOC in the same time period. Emissions of PM₁₀ slightly increased between 1990 and 2012. This resulted in reduction of emissions of substances that cause acidification, ozone precursors and particulate matter. NO_x is the only substance with a significant proportion of emissions in transport and in production of electricity and heat.

In 2012, NO_x emissions exceed the target value, while emissions of SO₂, NMVOC and NH₃ were lower than the prescribed target value. To achieve the 2020 goals implementation of measures to reduce emissions of NO_x and PM_2.5will be needed.

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Figure EN09-1: Emissions trends for SO₂, NO_x, NMVOC and NH₃ in comparison to 1990 (PM₁₀ in comparison to 2000) and 2010 objective for SO₂, NO_x, NMVOC and NH₃

Sources:

National Emission Database, Slovenian Environment Agency, 2014

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		1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999
SO2	index (1990 = 100)	100	92.889	96.532	94.969	91.739	61.468	57.206	59	54.482	47.537
NOx	index (1990 = 100)	100	91.258	89.515	94.226	97.58	96.725	102.343	103.036	94.15	82.969
NMVOC	index (1990 = 100)	100	92.693	89.272	89.978	91.206	90.37	95.451	89.718	81.739	76.771
NH3	index (1990 = 100)	100	94.04	98.016	90.764	90.434	90.345	88.804	89.496	90.209	89.829
PM10	index (2000 = 100)
SO2 goal	index (1990 = 100)
NOx goal	index (1990 = 100)
NMVOC goal	index (1990 = 100)
NH3 goal	index (1990 = 100)
		2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
SO2	index (1990 = 100)	46.624	31.724	31.795	30.987	25.663	20.524	8.295	7.349	6.446	5.28
NOx	index (1990 = 100)	83.942	85.433	86.373	83.346	81.511	79.221	80.63	81.56	89.406	77.408
NMVOC	index (1990 = 100)	79.815	77.364	77.134	74.906	71.784	69.096	68.54	66.12	63.102	61.825
NH3	index (1990 = 100)	93.213	92.279	95.657	91.063	83.911	85.611	86.501	89.133	84.052	85.207
PM10	index (2000 = 100)	100	99.101	97.83	96.924	99.273	102.655	102.969	101.889	93.271	96.523
SO2 goal	index (1990 = 100)
NOx goal	index (1990 = 100)
NMVOC goal	index (1990 = 100)
NH3 goal	index (1990 = 100)
		2010	2011	2012
SO2	index (1990 = 100)	4.962	5.513	5.124
NOx	index (1990 = 100)	76.065	76.284	74.369
NMVOC	index (1990 = 100)	60.296	59.119	57.036
NH3	index (1990 = 100)	82.915	79.857	78.592
PM10	index (2000 = 100)	94.754	101.176	101.5
SO2 goal	index (1990 = 100)	13.586	13.586	13.586
NOx goal	index (1990 = 100)	73.75	73.75	73.75
NMVOC goal	index (1990 = 100)	57.737	57.737	57.737
NH3 goal	index (1990 = 100)	89.614	89.614	89.614

Figure EN09-2: Emissions of air pollutants by sector, 2012

Sources:

National Emission Database, Slovenian Environment Agency, 2014

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		SO2	NOx	NH3	NMVOC	PM10
Energy supply	kt	6.51	10.35	0	4.66	0.37
Industry	kt	2.27	2.69	0	0.86	0.79
Transport	kt	0.06	27.84	0.51	5.67	1.9
Wide use	kt	0.57	2.98	0	12.1	13.87
Nonenergy sectors	kt	0.77	1.51	17.03	16.23	3.03
TOTAL	kt	10.18	45.38	17.54	39.51	19.97

Figure EN09-3: Emission trends for ozone precursors, acidifying substances and particulate matter

Sources:

National Emission Database, Slovenian Environment Agency, 2014

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		1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999
Ozone precursors	Index (2000 = 100)
Acidifying substances	Index (2000 = 100)
Particulate matter	Index (2000 = 100)
Ozone precursors	kt NMVOC equivalents	182.1	169.3	162.3	167.8	170.4	169.1	178.1	171.5	155	140.3
Acidifying substances	kt acid equivalents	8.8	8.2	8.5	8.3	8.2	6.3	6.1	6.2	5.8	5.2
Particulate matter	kt PM10 equivalents
		2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
Ozone precursors	Index (2000 = 100)	100	99.1	99	96.1	92.7	89.9	89.5	88.2	90.5	83.4
Acidifying substances	Index (2000 = 100)	100	82.5	83.6	80.8	72.2	65.9	52	51.8	51.4	47.3
Particulate matter	Index (2000 = 100)	100	87.9	88.5	85.9	80.3	75.7	66.2	65.9	66.6	61.2
Ozone precursors	kt NMVOC equivalents	142.7	141.3	141.3	137.2	132.2	128.2	127.7	125.9	129.1	118.9
Acidifying substances	kt acid equivalents	5.2	4.3	4.4	4.2	3.8	3.4	2.7	2.7	2.7	2.5
Particulate matter	kt PM10 equivalents	128.1	112.6	113.4	110.1	102.8	97	84.8	84.5	85.3	78.4
		2010	2011	2012
Ozone precursors	Index (2000 = 100)	81.6	81.7	79.6
Acidifying substances	Index (2000 = 100)	46	45.9	44.7
Particulate matter	Index (2000 = 100)	59.8	61	59.8
Ozone precursors	kt NMVOC equivalents	116.5	116.6	113.6
Acidifying substances	kt acid equivalents	2.4	2.4	2.3
Particulate matter	kt PM10 equivalents	76.7	78.2	76.6

Figure EN09-4: Share of total emissions for acidifying substances, ground-level ozone precursors and primary and secondary particulate matter, 2012

Sources:

National Emission Database, National Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Slovenian Environment Agency, 2014

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		Acidifying	Ground-level ozone	Particulate matter
PM_10 - en	kt	0	0	16.94
PM_10 - non-en	kt	0	0	3.03
SO2 - en	kt	0.29	0	5.08
SO2 - non-en	kt	0.02	0	0.42
NOx - en	kt	0.95	53.51	38.6
NOx - non-en	kt	0.03	1.85	1.33
NH3 - en	kt	0.03		0.33
NH3 - non-en	kt	1		10.9
NMVOC - en	kt	0	23.29	0
NMVOC - non-en	kt	0	16.23	0
CO - en	kt	0	16.71	0
CO - non-en	kt	0	0.74	0
CH4 - en	kt	0	0.27	0
CH4 - non-en	kt	0	0.98	0
TOTAL	kt	2.34	113.57	76.63
PM_10 - en	%	0	0	22.11
PM_10 - non-en	%	0	0	3.95
SO2 - en	%	12.59	0	6.63
SO2 - non-en	%	1.03	0	0.54
NOx - en	%	40.81	47.12	50.37
NOx - ne-en	%	1.41	1.63	1.74
NH3 - en	%	1.29	0	0.43
NH3 - non-en	%	42.87	0	14.22
NMVOC - en	%	0	20.51	0
NMVOC - non-en	%	0	14.29	0
CO - en	%	0	14.72	0
CO - ne-en	%	0	0.65	0
CH4 - en	%	0	0.24	0
CH4 - non-en	%	0	0.86	0
TOTAL	%	100	100	100

Figure EN09-5: Share of emissions of acidifying substances, ozone precursors and particulate matter, 2012

Sources:

National Emission Database, National Greenhouse Gas Emissions Database, Slovenian Environment Agency, 2014

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		Acidifying	Ground-level ozone	Particulate matter
Energy supply	kt	0.43	17.68	13
Industry	kt	0.13	4.95	4.39
Transport	kt	0.64	43.73	26.76
Wide use	kt	0.08	27.43	16.81
Non-energy sector	kt	1.06	19.79	15.68
TOTAL	kt	2.34	113.57	76.63
TOTAL - ENERGY SECTOR	kt	1.28	93.79	60.95
Energy supply	%	18.34	15.57	16.96
Industry	%	5.54	4.35	5.73
Transport	%	27.27	38.5	34.92
Wide use	%	3.54	24.15	21.93
Non-energy sector	%	45.31	17.42	20.46
TOTAL	%	100	100	100
TOTAL - ENERGY SECTOR	%	54.69	82.58	79.54

Figure EN09-6: Changes in emissions of acidifying substances, ozone precursors and particulate matter in the period 2000-2012

Sources:

National Emission Database, National Greenhouse Gas Emission Database, Slovenian Environment Agency, 2014

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		Acidifying	Ground-level ozone	Particulate matter
Energy supply	%	-84.9	-22.8	-77.2
Industry	%	-25.9	0.5	-16.4
Transport	%	-11.9	-34	-3.9
Wide use	%	-62.7	17.9	3.1
Non-energy sector	%	-17.2	-21.9	-28.1
TOTAL	%	-55.3	-20.4	-40.2
TOTAL - ENERGY SECTOR	%	-67.7	-20.1	-42.7
Energy supply	kt	2.8	22.9	56.9
Industry	kt	0.2	4.9	5.3
Transport	kt	0.7	66.2	27.8
Wide use	kt	0.2	23.3	16.3
Non-energy sector	kt	1.3	25.3	21.8
TOTAL	kt	5.2	142.7	128.1
TOTAL - ENERGY SECTOR	kt	4	117.3	106.3
Energy supply	kt	0.4	17.7	13
Industry	kt	0.1	4.9	4.4
Transport	kt	0.6	43.7	26.8
Wide use	kt	0.1	27.4	16.8
Non-energy sector	kt	1.1	19.8	15.7
TOTAL	kt	2.3	113.6	76.6
TOTAL - ENERGY SECTOR	kt	1.3	93.8	61