Download or read book The Landscape of Renewable Energies in Europe in 2030 written by Michel Cruciani and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Clean Energy Package includes innovative measures relating to the heat (or cold) sectors, as well as transportation. This study only looks at those aspects of the Package which relate to renewable energies. To facilitate reading, the study adopts a sectoral approach in the main part of the text, made up of three chapters which set out specific measures in each sector. A preliminary chapter summarises the overall measures and principal results expected for 2030. This presentation highlights the coherence of the Package and the importance given to electricity. The concluding chapter provides a panoramic overview, accompanied by final recommendations.
Download or read book Renewable Energies and European Landscapes written by Marina Frolova and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides timely, multidisciplinary cross-national comparison of the institutional and social processes through which renewable energy landscapes have emerged in Southern Europe. On the basis of case studies in these countries, it analyzes the way in which and the extent to which the development of renewable energies has affected landscape forms and whether or not it has contributed to a reformulation of landscape practices and values in these countries. Landscape is conceived broadly, as a material, social, political and historical process embedded into the local realm, going beyond aesthetic. The case studies analyze renewable energy landscapes in Southern Europe on different political and geographical scales and compare different types of renewable energy such as wind, hydro, solar and biomass power. The contributors are leading experts from Spain, France, Italy and Portugal. The book is intended for researchers, graduate students and professionals interested in geography, landscape and planning.
Download or read book Global Renewables Outlook Energy Transformation 2050 written by International Renewable Energy Agency IRENA and published by International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This outlook highlights climate-safe investment options until 2050, policies for transition and specific regional challenges. It also explores options to eventually cut emissions to zero.
Download or read book The Sustainability of Renewable Energy in Europe written by Simona Bigerna and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-03-18 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates that the much-needed global shift in energy production and use must happen at a territorial level in order to be truly successful and sustainable. This book enables regional implementation efforts by connecting broad EU environmental policies with plans for action at the territorial level, analysing efficient resource allocation and cost effectiveness to achieve national objectives. Each EU Member State is considered in depth, in order to identify the opportunities and challenges of this regional approach. The regional dimension of the authors’ analysis refers to the territorial level NUTS 1 (Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics) that, starting from the administrative borders of the EU countries, divides the territory into 97 regions on the basis of major socio-economic characteristics. Because the model of the EU "green economy" is characterized typically by top-down interventions that focus exclusively on the resource productivity and investment business, its practical implementation can be de-railed. This book provides the pivotal missing piece- the detailed territorial comparative analysis necessary to obtain an optimal energy mix of renewable energy sources (RES), energy conservation and energy efficiency characteristics of each specific local context.
Download or read book Renewable Energy in Europe written by European Renewable Energy Council (EREC) and published by Earthscan. This book was released on 2010 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How can the European Union meet its binding 20% renewable energy target in final energy consumption by the year 2020? Which sources offer the best prospects for realizing this goal? These are the questions answered by this key book which analyses the current situation of renewable energy in Europe, examines the latest technological, financial and economic developments, and outlines ways in which the renewable energy market can be developed. The book is divided into sections examining the integration of renewable energy, electricity, heating and cooling as well as biofuels. All the main technologies are covered, with exploration of: benefits and applications; costs and prices; markets and installed capacity; policy instruments; key countries and success stories; and targets and long term potential. This will be essential reading for policy decision-makers at all levels and to all those involved in the development of the renewable energy industry."--Publisher's description.
Download or read book Renewable Energy Prospects for the European Union written by International Renewable Energy Agency and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than two decades, the European Union (EU) has been at the forefront of global renewable energy deployment. The adoption of long-term targets and supporting policy measures has resulted in strong growth in renewable energy consumption across the region, from a 9% share in 2005 to 16.7% in 2015. Currently, the EU is on track to meet its 20% target established for 2020. In October 2014, the European Council agreed on a new set of energy and climate targets for the period up to 2030 (European Council, 2014), including a minimum target of 27% for the share of renewable energy consumed in the EU. This agreement was followed by the Energy Union framework strategy of February 2015, which aims to make the EU "the world leader in renewable energy" (European Commission, 2015a). The European Union ratified the Paris Agreement, which established the goal to limit the rise in global temperatures this century to "well below 2°C" compared to pre-industrial levels. In practice, this entails reducing global carbon emissions from energy use to zero by 2060 and maintaining that level until the end of the century. ... For the crucial 2020-2030 period, the European Commission tabled the "Clean Energy for All Europeans" package in November 2016. The package proposes a regulatory framework to support renewable energy deployment (European Commission, 2016a). The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), at the Commission's request, has carried out an assessment of the renewable energy prospects of the European Union to 2030 to support discussion on this proposal. The study, conducted in close collaboration with the Commission, also forms part of REmap - IRENAs' renewable energy roadmap. The resulting REmap EU study aims to identify cost-effective renewable energy options across all Member States, sectors, and technologies, in order to meet - and potentially exceed - the proposed 27% renewables target for 2030
Download or read book Renewable Energy Prospects written by Dolf Gielen and published by . This book was released on 2017-03 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indonesia is the largest country in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), accounting for around two fifths of the region's energy consumption. Energy demand across the country's more than 17,000 islands could increase by four fifths and electricity demand could triple between 2015 and 2030.While reliance on domestic coal and imported petroleum products has grown, Indonesia has started adding more renewables to its energy mix. The country has set out to achieve 23% renewable energy use by 2025, and 31% by 2050.REmap - the global roadmap from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) - addresses this challenge, presenting a range of technology and resource options, along with key insights on the opportunities and challenges ahead.As this REmap country report shows, Indonesia could feasibly exceed its current goals and deploy even more renewables. In fact, the country could reach its 2050 target two decades sooner - by 2030.
Download or read book Sustainable Energy Policies for Europe written by Rainer Hinrichs-Rahlwes and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2013-09-25 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The discussion about energy perspectives beyond 2020, up to 2030 and eventually 2050 has started. There seems to be a verbal consensus on the necessity of ambitious climate change mitigation policies, without a convincing perspective of the necessary policy decisions to be reached in due time. Methods to achieve greenhouse gas reduction as well as energy security vary from aiming for 100% renewable energies and setting up appropriate policy frameworks to implementing a mix of renewables comprising so-called clean fossil and nuclear energy. This book provides an analysis of the different approaches and the reasons why there is no sustainable alternative to aiming for 100% renewables – and how this vision could come true. The book provides an overview and in-depth analysis of a vital debate. It describes how the present policy framework with 2020-targets for the share of renewables, for increase of energy efficiency and for greenhouse gas emissions reduction was developed and how it has been implemented so far. Furthermore, it describes and analyses the emerging debate about the future of our energy system and the necessary next steps and targets leading up to 2030.
Download or read book Renewable Energies and European Landscapes written by Marina Frolova and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides timely, multidisciplinary cross-national comparison of the institutional and social processes through which renewable energy landscapes have emerged in Southern Europe. On the basis of case studies in these countries, it analyzes the way in which and the extent to which the development of renewable energies has affected landscape forms and whether or not it has contributed to a reformulation of landscape practices and values in these countries. Landscape is conceived broadly, as a material, social, political and historical process embedded into the local realm, going beyond aesthetic. The case studies analyze renewable energy landscapes in Southern Europe on different political and geographical scales, and compare different types of renewable energy such as wind, hydro, solar and biomass power. The contributors are leading experts from Spain, France, Italy and Portugal. The book is intended for researchers, graduate students and professionals interested in geography, landscape and planning.
Download or read book The Politics of Low Carbon Innovation written by Per Ove Eikeland and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-06-28 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Although technological innovation is undoubtedly crucial for addressing climate change, low-carbon innovation policies and politics have hardly been studied. This book clearly reveals the promises and pitfalls of European efforts in this field – recommended reading!"—Sebastian Oberthür, Institute for European Studies, Belguim "This compact volume effectively addresses a surprisingly unknown territory in an otherwise well-explored landscape. In doing so, it will provide a useful resource to all who follow the uneven progress of climate and energy policy in the EU context, as well as those who are interested in policies to stimulate technology development more broadly." —Tim Rayner, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of East Anglia, UK The EU Strategic Energy Technology Plan (SET-Plan) was aimed at accelerating low-carbon innovation by raising, coordinating and concentrating resources to certain low-carbon technologies. At the ten-year anniversary of the SET-Plan, this book examines why it was adopted and what it has achieved. Using an analytical framework developed to capture the ‘politics of innovation’, the authors trace the history of the Plan from initiation to implementation, and then explain its development as seen from the perspectives of the EU institutions, member-states, industry, the research community and international technology markets. The concluding chapter discusses lessons and prospects for European low-carbon innovation towards 2030 and beyond. This new work fills a void in the literature on EU climate and energy policies, and will appeal to scholars, students and practitioners in these fields.
Download or read book The EU 2030 Renewable Energy Vision Can It Be More Ambitious written by Barbara Breitschopf and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Setting a renewable energy (RE) target necessitates a comprehensive assessment of its impacts on the energy system and at the macroeconomic level in the European Union (EU). The decision of the EU about the renewable energy target is based on such impact assessments. We postulate that the EU could be more ambitious with respect to the RE target without endangering economic growth in the EU. We review fifteen impact assessment studies of the EU's energy transition in this paper. We classify and interpret the modelling used in these studies and their results, apply descriptive statistics and analysis, and show how model features and input parameters influence the impacts of different shares of renewable energies (RE) on the energy system and the wider economy. The variety of input factors and modelling approaches used explain the diverging results of the assessments. There are two crucial criteria to measure the impact: First, gross domestic product (GDP), which is the best indicator of overall change. GDP considers fossil fuel imports, prices, domestic additional generation and investments, and shows the resulting impacts of changes in these factors on welfare in monetary units. Second, energy system costs indicate what it costs to achieve a target and how efficiently this is done. We conclude that the European Union could feasibly increase its share of renewables without any negative impact on the economy, especially in the light of recent cost developments.
Download or read book Renewable Energy and Landscape Quality written by Michael Roth and published by Jovis Verlag. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book compiles guidelines for assessing the suitability and vulnerability of landscape for renewable energy projects and provides a multilingual glossary of terms for discussing landscape and renewable energy production, equipping the reader with tools and strategies for garnering public participation in urban planning.
Download or read book Renewable Energy written by David Elliott and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-28 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Significant progress has been made by industrial countries to reduce emissions from the use of fossil fuels, but as the economies of the less-developed regions of the world begin to expand, they too will face similar challenges. This book looks at energy transitions being made in developing countries, focusing on the adoption of renewable energy systems in Africa, for example under the UN Sustainable Energy for All programme, but also by the EU in the Former Soviet countries of Eastern and Central Europe. It draws on experience from involvement with programmes in the EU and Africa and will be of great interest to academics, policy makers and practitioners in the development aid and renewable energy policy fields.
Download or read book Renewable Energy Prospects for Central and South Eastern Europe Energy Connectivity CESEC written by International Renewable Energy Agency IRENA and published by International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renewables could meet more than one-third of energy demand across Central and South-Eastern Europe cost effectively by 2030 with key decisions taken now.
Download or read book Negotiating the Eu s 2030 Climate and Energy Framework written by OSCAR. FAIRBRASS FITCH-ROY (JENNY.) and published by Palgrave Pivot. This book was released on 2019-06-08 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This book presents complex information in an easy and compelling read. It is splendidly well-researched, and gives a thorough explanation of how plotting and persuasion by the community of interest groups, large corporations, and their lobbyists and campaigners influenced the 2030 framework. This highly valuable insight into the deeper parts of the EU climate and energy policy processes should be read by academics and stakeholders alike.'- Tor Håkon Jackson Inderberg, Senior Research Fellow and European Programme Director, Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway In 2014, European heads of state selected new targets for the EU as part of the 2030 climate and energy framework. These targets will guide the ambition and nature of EU policy in this area until 2030 and are likely to have important implications for Europe's transition to a low-carbon economy. This book exposes the role of civil society and business interest groups in setting the policymaking agenda and defining the range of options for the framework. Based on a unique sample of 32 in-depth interviews with Brussels policy elites, this book casts EU interest representation in a new light. In a novel application of the 'multiple streams approach', sequential chapters present the problems faced by policymakers, the range of policy options available to address them and the political constraints within which policy entrepreneurs attempted to attached policies to problems.
Download or read book Costs and Benefits of Renewable Energy Sources in Europe Up to 2030 written by Marijke Welisch and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: System-related costs and benefits vary considerably across Member States. In general, Eastern European and Baltic states face higher support expenditures but also benefit more in terms of avoided fossil fuels and CO2 emissions. The overall financial burden of the binding EU-wide RES target of at least 27% of the EU's energy consumption by 2030 seems to be bearable. However, a clear concept and an agreement on the effort sharing across Member States has to follow. Alternative scenarios show that despite increased costs, a higher target set at EU level would increase system related benefits significantly. In addition, it would benefit the EU trade balance due to a (significantly) decreased demand for fossil fuels and related imports from abroad. If prevailing non-economic barriers were removed and energy efficiency measures implemented, a higher RES share for 2030 of 30% or more would be much more easily achievable.
Download or read book Renewable Energy in Europe written by European Renewable Energy Council and published by Earthscan. This book was released on 2004 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the current status, potential and trends in renewable energy sources, this book focuses on the technology, costs, industry characteristics and market development issues associated with each form of renewable energy.
