Energy independence: Renewable energy
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Renewable Energy : International Perspectives on Sustainability by Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, 284 pages.
This book bringing together leading researchers in the field of renewable energy to discuss sustainability on a broad scale and to examine the status quo of renewable energy industry development in a global context. The volume starts with the European Union, then reviews current trends in the United States as well as the Middle East, Central Asia, and Latin America. It moves on to analyze the German transition to one hundred percent renewable energy economy and energy systems (Energiewende) with a climate protection plan and sustainable economic development; and continues on to examine the determinants of the adoption of sustainable solutions in Finland and discuss the renewable energy agenda in the European Union with the 17 Sustainable Development Goals at its core.
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- Diversification, concentration and renewability of the energy supply in the European Union
By Mattia De Rosa, Kenneth Gainsford, Donal P Finn (all from University College Dublin, IE), Fabiano Pallonetto (Maynooth Univ., IE). In: Energy, 2022-08-15, Vol.253.
The present paper investigates the diversification of the energy supply in Europe, by analysing import dependence, market concentration and renewable energy resource deployment in the European Union over the last decade.
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- Searching for energy independence, finding renewables? Energy security perceptions and renewable energy policy in Lithuania
By Thomas Sattich, Rasa Morgan (both from Univ. Stavanger, NO), Espen Moe (Norwegian University of Science and Technology). In: Political geography, 2022-06, Vol.96.
Lithuania's electricity sector has one of the EU's highest dependency rates, with about seventy percent of consumed electricity being generated abroad. This high rate was accentuated by the fact that until 2015 the dependency was on a sole country, namely the Russian Federation. With virtually no primary energy resources of its own, Lithuania progressed from a pro-nuclear to a renewable national energy strategy in just one decade. Based on the revised Copenhagen Securitization School, this article analyses energy security perceptions as a factor that determines the recent turn in Lithuanian energy strategy.
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- Is there climate policy integration in European Union energy efficiency and renewable energy policies? Yes, no, maybe
Claudia Kettner ; Daniela Kletzan‐Slamanig (both at WIFO, Vienna, AT). In: Environmental policy and governance, 2020-05, Vol.30 (3), p.141-150.
Our results show that climate change mitigation is a key objective in these documents. The energy policy objectives are generally synergetic with climate policy. The Energy Union Package makes progress in some areas like the more stringent EU targets for renewable energy and energy efficiency or the more stringent sustainability criteria for biofuels. However...
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- Government support to renewable energy R&D: drivers and strategic interactions among EU Member StatesBy Jonas Grafström (Ratio Institute, Stockholm, SE) and others. In: Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 2020-12-23, p.1-24.
The objective is to analyse the determinants of government support to renewable energy R&D in the European Union (EU), and, in doing this, we devote particular attention to the question of whether the level of this support tends to converge or diverge across EU Member States.
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- An analysis of the main driving factors of renewable energy consumption in the European Union
By José Antonio Camacho Ballesta, Lucas da Silva Almeida & Mercedes Rodríguez (all from Univ. Granada, ES). In: Environmental Science and Pollution Research volume 29, pages 35110–35123 (2022).
This study aims to analyze the impact of economic and social factors on the share of renewable energy consumption (REC) in total energy consumption in the EU over the period 2001–2015. For doing so, we estimate a Panel Corrected Standard Error (PCSE) model. The results obtained show that economic factors have a negative effect on REC. In contrast, social factors like education exert a positive effect.
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- Electricity market design under increasing renewable energy penetration: Misalignments observed in the European Union
By Donna Peng, Rahmatallah Poudineh (both from Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, UK). In: Utilities Policy, Volume 61, December 2019, 100970.
EU electricity market debate has focused on fit for purpose of wholesale design. We argue that beyond wholesale price signal should be brought into question. There are misalignments between renewable and a wide range of coordination modules. Ignoring such systemic frictions makes reform proposals ineffective.
EU paper
- Renewable Energy Directive
Directive 2009/28/EC, revised in 2018, has been proposed for a second revision to align it with the EU’s increased climate ambition.
The Renewable Energy Directive is the legal framework for the development of renewable energy across all sectors of the EU economy. It establishes common principles and rules to remove barriers, stimulate investments and drive cost reductions in renewable energy technologies, and empowers citizens, consumers and businesses to participate in the clean energy transformation.