Analyzing the sustainable energy development in the EU-15 by an aggregated synthetic index

García-Álvarez, María Teresa; Moreno, Blanca; Soares, Isabel

doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2015.07.006

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“…Thus, the threat of global climate change arises as an outcome of progress and social conquests (Laughlin, 2012) in a blend of "burn out", "collapse" and "overshoot" catastrophic scenarios, as noted by Rob Hopkins (Hopkins, 2008;Neves & Leal, 2010;Hopkins, 2008:33). Sustainable development and energy must progress together, bringing about a desired transition towards the efficient energy use and the switch to renewables, (Boyle, 2012;García-Álvarez, Moreno, & Soares, 2016;Hopkins, 2008;Süsser, Döring, & Ratter, 2017;).…”

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Assessing energy performances: A step toward energy efficiency at the municipal level

Poggi

Firmino

Amado

2017

Sustainable Cities and Society

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At present, energy efficiency represents one of the foremost challenges to achieve the transition toward a lowcarbon society. Reducing energy use spans a broad range of technical issues and spatial scales: from building to districts, from cities to rural areas, and from energy power plants to electricity grids. In this frame, the challenge of enhancing energy efficiency can be understood as an extremely relevant topic for planning at the municipal level. Nevertheless, recent studies provide evidence that significant gaps exist in the enhancement of energy efficiency within municipal boundaries. The present research recognises that a comprehensive assessment of municipal energy performances is an essential starting point to facilitate local planning in enhancing energy efficiency. However, how can this challenge be translated into practice and applied to the implementation of local planning? As new models result from the transformation of existing ones, the development of a methodology associated with a case study in Portugal was deemed the most appropriate approach to contribute to knowledge in these fields. The primary objective of this study is to move toward more integrated process of planning for energy efficiency, supporting the definition of priorities and strategies to address energy saving improvements at municipal level. The assessment process involves a statistical analysis that using Geographical Information System, is combined and translated into spatial models to determine needs and set priorities within a Municipal Master Plan review. Based on this top-down approach, it becomes clear that energy efficiency is a cross-cutting issue interrelated with a blend of various disciplines: geography, spatial planning, urbanism, architecture, and civil engineering. The results enable us to understand why municipalities should be called upon to enhance energy efficiency by first looking at a comprehensive energy performance assessment. Embracing the whole municipal territory rather than only urban areas, is key to articulate energy efficiency and geographical, social, environmental and economic factors that are at the core of local planning.

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Assessing energy performances: A step toward energy efficiency at the municipal level

Poggi

Firmino

Amado

2017

Sustainable Cities and Society

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“…The Synthetic Index of Sustainable Energy Development (SISED) was created in 2016, based on the ESI methodology, which was proposed by the World Economic Forum in 2002. SISED was planned to be a synthetic index consisting of three indices from a set of indicators to promote sustainable energy policies to European countries [134]. The index is based on 33 variables, grouped into nine categories, comprising three distinct dimensions: energy supply safety (SES), competitive energy market (CEM), and environmental protection (EP).…”

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Tools for Measuring Energy Sustainability: A Comparative Review

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This paper is intended to perform a comparative and qualitative review among eight tools to measure energy sustainability. Therefore, it was necessary to create a theoretical and conceptual framework based on four criterias of selection and six categories of comparison. In this work, the conceptual bases that supported the research and the methodology created to carry out the comparative review will be presented. This analysis was based on the intrinsic concepts of energy sustainability of each of the reviewed tools with a critical qualitative analysis. Some conclusions shown through the conceptual framework developed that it was possible to apply an innovative methodology to qualitatively compare different tools to measure sustainability. The importance of this reflects the difficulty of conceptualizing the subjectivity of sustainable development, as shown throughout the paper, where it is often not possible to obtain a measurable result since the measured phenomenon is too complex to reduce it to a numerical value.

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“…The size of the index change that occurs along with the tiny change of the basic-level indicator is called the basic-level indicator's sensitivity to index, which can describe visually the influence of basic-level indicators on indexes. The calculating formula of a single indicator's sensitivity is shown in (9). If the result changes greatly, it indicates a high sensitivity, and the indicator system and index calculation are not universal; otherwise, if sensitivity is low, it indicates good universality [30,31]:…”

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“…The sustainable energy development in the EU-15 (including France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Denmark, Ireland, UK, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Austria, Finland and Sweden) was analyzed by an aggregated synthetic index based on a three-pillar framework-economic development, social development, and environmental protection. Three indexes were calculated related to energy supply security, the competitive energy market, and environmental protection dimensions, which were later aggregated into a Synthetic Index with 33 variables [9]. An Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare Growth for 42 Sub-Saharan Africa for the years, 1985-2013, was calculated to re-estimate the relationship between energy and sustainable economic welfare [10].…”

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Research on the Composite Index of the Modern Chinese Energy System

Cheng

Tian

et al. 2018

Sustainability

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The Chinese government is going to “push ahead the revolution of energy production and consumption, and establish a clean, low-carbon, secure, and efficient energy system”, which points out a direction for the energy industry in the new era. Using the analytic hierarchy process of the system analysis method, we constructed an indicator system of the modern Chinese energy system, and by determining the weighting of each indicator, we obtained the composite index of the modern Chinese energy system, as well as four sub-indexes of clean, low-carbon, secure, and efficient. Then, we investigated policy changes and energy development characteristics of important periods, and performed historical trend analysis. Finally, we forecasted the composite index and four sub-indexes by 2050, and proposed an energy development path and policy suggestions to achieve a modern Chinese energy system as soon as possible.

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Analyzing the sustainable energy development in the EU-15 by an aggregated synthetic index

Cited by 55 publications

References 16 publications

Assessing energy performances: A step toward energy efficiency at the municipal level

Assessing energy performances: A step toward energy efficiency at the municipal level

Tools for Measuring Energy Sustainability: A Comparative Review

Research on the Composite Index of the Modern Chinese Energy System

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