Long-Term Integration of Renewable Energy Sources Into the European Energy System

ISBN-13: 9783790811049 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 270 str.

Lti-Reseach Group; Lti-Research Group The Lti-Research Group

Opis

A sustainable European energy system, mitigating climate change and other environmental problems, would need massive reliance on renewable energy. This book provides a "sustainable scenario" and a "fair-market scenario" demonstrating concepts for a sustainable European energy supply are feasible.

Spis treści

Introduction: Tackling the Energy Problem; The Current European Energy Demand and Supply; Environmental Impacts of the Current Energy Use.- Scenario for a Sustainable Future Energy System: Technical Description; Economic and Environmental Impacts.- A Fair-Market Scenario for the European Energy System: Technical Description; Economic and Environmental Impacts.- Bottlenecks and Obstacles - Success Stories and Measures: Bottlenecks and Obstacles; The Success Story of Wind Energy in Denmark, Germany and Wales; Measures to Overcome the Most Important Obstacles and Bottlenecks.- Appendix I: Bottlenecks and Obstacles - Elements of a Methodology for National Diagnosis: General Typology for a Study on Bottlenecks; Identifying Bottlenecks According to Categories of NRE Projects; Reducing Distortions of an Institutional Nature Unfavourable to NRE; Beyond the reform of Incentive Systems - Organising the Co-ordination of Actors in Europe; Conclusions.- Appendix II: Additional Data and Figures.

Blurb

A sustainable European energy system, mitigating climate change and solving a number of other key environmental problems, will require massive reliance on renewable energy sources combined with a sharp increase in energy productivity. Considering that most of the technoplogies necessary for such a development are already available, today's most important questions are: How can these technologies be integrated into the European energy system? What are the costs and benefits of such a strategy? What are the major bottlenecks and obstacles to such a development? What measures are necessary to support this development? In the book a "sustainable scenario" and a "fair-market scenario" are developed as a means to demonstrate that concepts for a sustainable future Eutopean energy supply are technically and economically feasible. In addition, they provide a positive vision for decisions to be made in the near furture.