Promoting Sustainable Electricity In Europe

Author : W. M. Lafferty
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1848443943
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Promoting Sustainable Electricity in Europe written by W. M. Lafferty and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: . . . this book is a timely and significant read for anyone with an interest in the operation of the energy sector. Karen Morrow, International Energy Law & Taxation Review This is a timely and comparative assessment of initiatives to promote renewable electricity sources (RES-E) in eight European countries. Carried out by the ProSus research programme at the University of Oslo in cooperation with leading research institutions in each country, the book focuses on the promotional schemes used to foster RES-E in Austria, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain and Sweden. The book is unique in that it monitors progress on implementing the EU RES-E Directive in relation to the impact of the dominant energy systems in each country. Employing notions of path dependency/path creation , the analysis demonstrates that crucial lessons for promoting RES-E are to be found in the contextual conditions of national and regional settings; conditions that qualify the effects of more general, market-oriented schemes. The conclusions reached are of direct relevance for the ongoing debate as to the most effective policy instruments for achieving sustainable energy and climate policies in Europe. Promoting Sustainable Electricity in Europe will be of interest to academics and researchers involved in environmental management, energy studies, technology and sustainable development. Furthermore, it will be of interest to policymakers and bureaucrats both at the EU level and among EU/EEA member states concerned with climate change, renewable energy and sustainable development at large. The book should also be of relevance for business organizations and NGOs concerned with the promotion of sustainable electricity.

Author : Thomas Cottier
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110716334X
Total Pages : 509 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Trade in Sustainable Electricity written by Thomas Cottier and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-06 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the regulatory challenges posed by the changing landscape of electricity trade to the multilateral trading system.

Author : William M. Lafferty
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Promoting Sustainable Electricity in Europe written by William M. Lafferty and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rainer Hinrichs-Rahlwes
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 0415620996
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Israel Solorio
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783471565
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Guide to EU Renewable Energy Policy written by Israel Solorio and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-30 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a guide for understanding the EU renewable energy policy as one of the most ambitious attempts world-wide to facilitate a transition towards more sustainable energy systems. It contains key case studies for understanding how member states have shaped the EU renewable energy policy, how the EU has affected the policies of its member states and how renewable energy policies have diffused horizontally. An analysis of the external dimension of the EU renewable energy policy is also included.

Author : Frans H. J. M. Coenen
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030844404
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Renewable Energy Communities and the Low Carbon Energy Transition in Europe written by Frans H. J. M. Coenen and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-03 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume addresses renewable energy communities, and in particular renewable energy cooperatives (REScoops), in the context of the revised EU Renewables Directive. It provides a comprehensive account of the history and development of the renewable energy community movement in over six different countries of continental Europe. It addresses their visions, strategy, organisation, agency, and more particularly the challenges they encounter. This is of particular importance to gain more understanding into how renewable energy communities fare in domestic energy markets where they are confronted with regime institutions, structures and incumbents’ agency that tend to favour maintaining of the status quo while blocking attempts to empower and institutionalise renewable energy communities as market entrants having a disruptive, radical green and localist agenda. This volume will be an invaluable reference for academics and practitioners with an interest in social innovation in sustainable transitions, the role of community energy in energy markets, their agency, as well as an outlook to the impact that the EU Renewables Directive may have to change national legislation and policy frameworks to create a level playing field that is essentially more fair and beneficial to renewable energy communities.

Author : Béatrice Cointe
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319763210
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feed-in tariffs in the European Union written by Béatrice Cointe and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-04-13 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a sociological account of the historical trajectory of feed-in tariffs (FITs) as an instrument for the promotion of renewable energy in Europe. Chapters analyse the emergence and transformations of feed-in tariffs as part of the policy arsenal developed to encourage the creation of markets for RES-E in Europe. The authors explore evolving conceptions of renewable energy policy at the intersection between environmental objectives, technological change and the ambition to liberalise the internal electricity market. They draw conclusions on the relationships between markets and policy-making as it is instituted in the European Union, and on the interplay between the implementation of a European vision on energy and national politics. Distinctive in both its approach and its methods the books aim is not to discuss the design of feed-in tariffs and their evolution, nor is it to assess their efficiency or fairness. Instead, the authors seek to understand what makes feed-in tariffs what they are, and how this has changed over time.

Author : Michael Grubb
Publisher : Earthscan
ISBN 13 : 9781853832840
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Renewable Energy Strategies for Europe written by Michael Grubb and published by Earthscan. This book was released on 1995 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This project examines the issues entailed in European policies for promoting renewable energy. This set contains five volumes, each of which is a free-standing publication and which together cover the entire subject.

Author : European Commission. Directorate-General for Energy and Transport
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Electricity from Renewable Energy Sources written by European Commission. Directorate-General for Energy and Transport and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recoge:1. A directive to encourage cleaner electricity - 2. Green electricity in Europe - 3. Strength in diversity and leadership in technology - 4. Explaining the directive - 5. The next steps.

Author : Paul Midford
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030545148
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Challenges and Solutions for Renewable Energy written by Paul Midford and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-02-12 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book identifies second stage challenges and opportunities for expanding renewable energy into a mainstay of electricity generation that can replace fossil fuels and nuclear power, comparing Japan with several countries in East Asia and Northern Europe. Environmentally sustainable renewable energy technologies have now overtaken fossil fuel and nuclear technologies in terms of total global investment, and the costs of these technologies and related ones (e.g. storage batteries) are rapidly falling. Yet renewable energy use varies greatly from country to country. Major second stage obstacles to replacing fossil and nuclear-fueled electricity generation include the lack of electricity grid capacity and storage assets. Opportunities and solutions include expanding grids regionally and internationally, building flexible smart grids that offer better demand management, and policies that promote the expansion of storage assets, especially grid batteries and hydrogen. In addition, two key factors – electricity market restructuring through unbundling transmission from electricity generating companies; and electricity market liberalization, especially for retail customers – allow consumers to choose power companies based not only on price, but also on method of generation, especially fossil or nuclear generation versus renewable energy.