An analytic framework to assess future electricity options in Kosovo

Kittner, Noah; Dimco, Hilda; Azemi, Visar; Tairyan, Evgenia; Kammen, Daniel M.

doi:10.1088/1748-9326/11/10/104013

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“…In particular, wood chips overtook natural gas in Lithuania as primary district heating fuels in 2017 (REN21 2017). Other countries in Southeast Europeincluding Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Croatia -may continue this trend as they address rising air pollution and associated health burden concerns from burning lignite coal, and can switch fuels without significantly altering boiler technologies (Kittner et al 2016). For emerging economies, biomass presents a dual challenge.…”

Section: Case Study 74 Biopower and Cogeneration In Southeast Europementioning

confidence: 99%

SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy – How Access to Affordable and Clean Energy Affects Forests and Forest-Based Livelihoods

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Bailis²,

Dermawan³

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Sustainable Development Goals: Their Impacts on Forests and People

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The role of traditional woodfuels in energy service provision will decline, though energy stacking that includes traditional woodfuels is likely to persist low-and middle-income countries.• The role of processed woodfuels, forest-derived liquid biofuels, and biopower in achieving SDG 7 will depend on relative costs and innovation in storage capacity of renewables including solar, wind and micro-hydro.• Transitions to modern fuels (including electricity generated with largescale hydropower and heavy reliance on agriculture-derived liquid biofuels) threatens forests and forest-based livelihoods.• Energy transitions involving decreased reliance on traditional woodfuels and increased use of forest-derived modern fuels (e.g. pellets, biofuel) are generally synergistic with achieving other SDGs.

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Section: Case Study 74 Biopower and Cogeneration In Southeast Europementioning

confidence: 99%

SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy – How Access to Affordable and Clean Energy Affects Forests and Forest-Based Livelihoods

Jagger¹,

Bailis²,

Dermawan³

et al. 2019

Sustainable Development Goals: Their Impacts on Forests and People

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“…As the government lacks capacities to ensure resettlement in line with international regulations and that the costs of the resettlement caused by the Kosovo C project cannot be adequately estimated, there is a real risk of causing further socio-political tensions. Kittner et al, 2014;Sander + Partners, 2016). Furthermore, the government claims the project will lead to the creation of approximately 10,000 jobs (Ministry of Economic Development, 2013).…”

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Energy justice and the legacy of conflict: Assessing the Kosovo C thermal power plant project

Lappe-Osthege

Andreas

2017

Energy Policy

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The concept of energy justice has emerged as an important theoretical and methodological tool aiding to understand challenges in the extraction, production and consumption of energy, and its societal, economic, environmental and security implications. We apply energy justice as an analytical framework to analyse the political, societal and environmental impacts of energy policies in the context of post-conflict instability. Using the Kosovo C project as a case study, a planned lignite power plant and its associated infrastructure, we utilise the three tenets of energy justice (distributional, procedural, and justice as recognition) and Sovacool and Dworkin's (2015) eight aspects of just energy decision-making to depict the opportunities and challenges of the empirical application of energy justice in a post-conflict environment. The application of energy justice to the Kosovo case identifies the legal/regulatory and the temporal dimensions as crucial challenges to just energy policies in a context in which: (i) the lack of due process, good governance, and ongoing postconflict tensions aggravate the societal, economic and environmental impacts of energy policies; (ii) accessibility and affordability of energy is prioritised over the promotion of sustainability; and (iii) intra-and intergenerational equity concerns take a backseat in the face of immediate state-building priorities.

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“…This is the 'solutions science' paradigm that ERL works to support. ERL remains the place where I publish what I consider to be my own most impact-focused and policy-relevant work [6].…”

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An analytic framework to assess future electricity options in Kosovo

Cited by 14 publications

References 21 publications

SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy – How Access to Affordable and Clean Energy Affects Forests and Forest-Based Livelihoods

SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy – How Access to Affordable and Clean Energy Affects Forests and Forest-Based Livelihoods

Energy justice and the legacy of conflict: Assessing the Kosovo C thermal power plant project

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