Renewable energy deployment in Europe up to 2030 and the aim of a triple dividend

Duscha, Vicki; Fougeyrollas, Arnaud; Nathani, Carsten; Pfaff, Matthias; Ragwitz, Mario; Resch, Gustav; Schade, Wolfgang; Breitschopf, Barbara; Walz, Rainer

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2016.05.011

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“…drawing on estimates from Galik and Abt, Lechner and Carlsson, Sackett, Fritsche and Iriarte, Lamers et al, and Duscha et al . ). The BioTrade 2020+ HT export potential estimates are higher even than most projections of total production because we estimate the total biomass potential unconstrained by projections of pellet production capacity.…”

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Opportunities and risks for sustainable biomass export from the south‐eastern United States to Europe

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Import of wood pellets to the EU from the southeastern United States has increased almost ten‐fold over the past seven years, driven largely by mandates under the Renewable Energy Directive. While the displacement of fossil fuels with biomass can offer significant energy diversity and climate benefits, these must be balanced against the potential detriment from unsustainable extraction of biomass resources. This study projects the scale of the sustainable biomass resource base in the US southeast through 2030 under various scenarios of industry development and domestic market dynamics. We characterise this resource base at the county level, disaggregating it by material type and spatially constraining it to ensure biodiversity conservation. Our analysis shows that there could be as much as 70 million green metric tons of sustainable export potential from the US Southeast in 2030. However, we also show the extent to which sustainable sourcing criteria applied only to EU biomass energy imports could create leakage across biomass markets, erasing gains from any sustainability mandate. This leakage risk was fairly consistent across our study scenarios and time periods, ranging from 50 to over 63 million green tons of biomass per year. Meaningful biodiversity protections can only be achieved if sustainability criteria for biomass import to the EU are combined with more comprehensive support for sustainable sourcing across biomass industries in exporting regions. © 2017 Society of Chemical Industry and John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

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Opportunities and risks for sustainable biomass export from the south‐eastern United States to Europe

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“…It is anticipated that the installed capacity for marine wind up to 2020 will reach 24.6 GW [7]. Critiques on the 2020 and 2030 EU targets have been presented in [8,9], respectively. Despite Europe's leading role in MRE development, its status in the MS is still at its infancy; the development of MRE installations is, more or less, terra incognita, and, to some degree, it is expected to face similar but probably more intense problems than those encountered in the Northern European countries for reasons explained in the following sections.…”

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Marine Renewable Energy in the Mediterranean Sea: Status and Perspectives

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Abstract:In this work, an extended overview of the marine renewable energy in the Mediterranean Sea is provided as regards current status, potential problems, challenges, and perspectives of development. An integrated and holistic approach is necessary for the economic viability and sustainability of marine renewable energy projects; this approach comprises three different frameworks, not always aligned, i.e., geotechnical/engineering, socio-economic, and environmental/ ecological frameworks. In this context, the geomorphological, climatological, socio-economic, and environmental/ecological particularities of the Mediterranean basin are discussed, as they constitute key issues of the spatial context in which marine renewable energy projects are to be implemented. General guidelines for the sustainable development of marine renewable energy in the Mediterranean are also provided.Keywords: marine renewable energy; ocean energy; offshore wind energy; marine spatial planning; Mediterranean Sea; roadmap for marine energy development Key TopicsThe main topics that this paper deals with, can be summarized as follows: •Global status of the different types of marine renewable energy (MRE), i.e., offshore wind, wave, tidal, thermal, and salinity gradients energy conversion:

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“…In a cap-andtrade system where emissions are fixed, the introduction of support measures for RS could result in a reduced demand for allowances with the consequence of increasing the production of the carbonintensive technologies and shifting of emissions to other sectors not covered by the permits scheme (Böhringer, 2014;Delarue and van den Bergh, 2016;Lehmann and Gawel, 2013). On the contrary, Duscha et al (2016) suggest that even if RS are not the most cost-effective option, they can help achieve a triple dividend (environmental protection, energy security and jobs creation), resulting in positive but uncertain economic gains. Accordingly, energy and climate policy should be designed taking account of factors beyond the pure market mechanism and integrated with industrial and innovation policies (Ćetković and Buzogány, 2016).…”

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A dynamic assessment of instrument interaction and timing alternatives in the EU low-carbon policy mix design

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The European Union low-carbon strategy includes a range of complementary policies. Potential interactions between instruments and different timing of their implementation can influence the cost and likelihood of achieving the targets. We test the interactions between the three main pillars of the European Union strategy through a dynamic Computable General Equilibrium model (GDynEP) with a time horizon of 2050. Main results are: i) going for the unilateral European Union carbon mitigation target without any complementary technological policy will produce large economic losses; ii) by investing in clean energy technologies (energy efficiency and renewable energy) with a carbon tax revenue recycling mechanism, these losses will decrease substantially; iii) when complementary clean energy technology policies are implemented, the optimal timing of binding targets changes; iv) the higher the public support to clean energy technologies, the larger the economic gains in early adoption of challenging abatement targets.

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Renewable energy deployment in Europe up to 2030 and the aim of a triple dividend

Cited by 41 publications

References 10 publications

Opportunities and risks for sustainable biomass export from the south‐eastern United States to Europe

Opportunities and risks for sustainable biomass export from the south‐eastern United States to Europe

Marine Renewable Energy in the Mediterranean Sea: Status and Perspectives

A dynamic assessment of instrument interaction and timing alternatives in the EU low-carbon policy mix design

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