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

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 d...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: The LTI-Research Group (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Heidelberg Physica-Verlag HD 1998, 1998
Edition:1st ed. 1998
Series:Environmental and Resource Economics
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Executive Summary
  • 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 Tackling the Energy Problem
  • 1.2 The Current European Energy Demand and Supply
  • 1.3 Environmental Impacts of the Current Energy Use
  • 2 Scenario for a Sustainable Future Energy System
  • 2.1 Technical Description
  • 2.2 Economic and Environmental Impacts
  • 3 A Fair-Market Scenario for the European Energy System
  • 3.1 Technical Description
  • 3.2 Economic and Environmental Impacts Sigurd Weinreich
  • 4 Bottlenecks and Obstacles - Success Stories and Measures
  • 4.1 Bottlenecks and Obstacles
  • 4.2 The Success Story of Wind Energy in Denmark, Germany and Wales
  • 4.3 Measures to Overcome the Most Important Obstacles and Bottlenecks
  • 5 Appendix I: Bottlenecks and Obstacles — Elements of a Methodology for National Diagnosis
  • 5.1 General Typology for a Study on Bottlenecks
  • 5.2 Identifying Bottlenecks According to Categories of NRE Projects
  • 5.3 Reducing Distortions of an Institutional Nature Unfavourable to NRE
  • 5.4 Beyond the Reform of Incentive Systems — Organising the Co-ordination of Actors in Europe
  • 5.5 Conclusions
  • 6 Appendix II: Additional Data and Figures
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • References