Efficiency and allocation of emission allowances and energy consumption over more sustainable European economies

Cucchiella, Federica; D’Adamo, Idiano; Gastaldi, Massimo; Miliacca, Michela

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.02.079

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“…The subsidies, tax credits, financial assistance and rebates are well-established in favour of renewable technologies in developed market economies. Transition countries having lower GDP per capita and less developed energy markets, have weaker institutions and policy frameworks to support RES as well as less budget resources to provide financial support for RES technologies [9,10].…”

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“…Economic sustainability might be ensured by allocation of emission allowances and energy efficiency [10,11]. The Renewable Energy Directive, known as 2009/28/EC, establishes the EU policy in terms of energy production from RES.…”

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“…Lung [31] offered own division into the groups of countries according to output and energy consumption basing on the data for both developed and developing countries. Previously, a comparative analysis among the EU-28 member states according to the RES share in gross final consumption was carried out by Cucchiella et al [10] using different mathematical models. The authors showed that Finland and Sweden achieved the best results concerning gross final energy consumption, while Austria, Denmark, and Latvia reached the 2020 target in the share of energy from renewable sources in the gross final consumption.…”

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Renewable Energy in the Electricity Sector and GDP per Capita in the European Union

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Considering that the European Directive has imposed that at least 20% of the total energy should come from renewable energy sources (RES) by 2020 already and the specific targets for each European Union Member State, this paper attempts to assess the importance of GDP per capita in realizing these targets and also the effects of the RES share in electricity. Contrary to previous research, this paper does not consider the connection between economic growth and RES, but rather the potential connection between the share of RES in electricity and the real GDP per capita. The panel data models indicated to a positive, but very low impact of GDP per capita on the share of RES in electricity in the period of 2007–2017 in the case of the EU countries, except Luxembourg that has outlier values of GDP per capita. However, causality between the two variables was not identified. Some groups of countries were described according to these variables using cluster analysis. Future research should focus on the extension of this model by including other important variables such as RES potential available in the countries with specific geographical conditions.

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“…One reason why energy and environmental issues are widely concerned is because it is closely related to our health. Some scholars also studied the relationship between environmental pollution and human health [20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33]. As we know, the EU countries are also the regions in the world that have invested heavily in health care.…”

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“…The results showed that the input of nuclear energy as a mixture of energy had a negative impact on the efficiency of countries and also caused serious environmental problems. Cucchiella et al [20] used the DEA model to explore the energy and environmental efficiency of EU countries. Research and results showed that the energy and environmental efficiency of the EU countries were low, and countries with poor efficiency can influence energy efficiency through potential emissions and energy consumption reduction.…”

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Dynamic Linkages among Economic Development, Energy Consumption, Environment and Health Sustainable in EU and Non-EU Countries

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There is a close and important relationship between environmental pollution and public health, and environmental pollution has an important impact on the public health. This study employed the two-stage meta-frontier dynamic network data envelopment analysis (TMDN-DEA) model to explore the environment pollution effects from energy consumption on the mortality of children and adult, tuberculosis rate, survival rate and health expenditure efficiencies in 28 EU countries and 53 non-EU countries from 2010 to 2014. We calculated the overall efficiency scores and the technology gap ratios of each EU and non-EU countries and the efficiencies of input and output variables in the production and health stage. The average overall efficiencies each year in EU countries are higher than in the non-EU countries. But EU countries have higher energy efficiency than non-EU countries, and non-EU countries have higher health efficiency than EU countries. The health expenditure efficiencies in the EU countries are obviously lower than those in non-EU countries. The renewable energy efficiencies are obviously higher than the non-renewable energy efficiencies; PM2.5 efficiencies are obviously higher than the CO2 efficiencies and the children’s mortality rate efficiencies are higher than the adult’s mortality rate efficiencies for EU countries and non-EU countries. The government management in the EU and non-EU countries should be strengthened to reduce the air pollutant and carbon dioxide emissions and raise energy transformation to the clean energy in renewable energy and improve health efficiencies in medical and health care field.

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Sustainable regional energy planning: The case of hydro

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The study is dedicated to analysis of sustainable regional energy planning challenge's in order to reach carbon-free economy in 2050. The case study of hydropower development in selected region of Poland provides good example how to deal practically with identified sustainable regional energy planning problems to address restrictions of environmental requirements and natural conditions on the least costs hydropower generation planning in a given region. The aim of the article is to develop a model for optimizing hydropower production and to apply this model for selected region. The West Pomeranian region was selected for this case study, and the time range for planning is from 2019 to 2030. The selected region is particularly predestined for the production of renewable energy sources. Constructed model and obtained results for optimization of hydropower development in selected region is useful for fostering usage of renewable energy sources in Poland and moving forward towards carbonfree economy target set by European Union for 2050.

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Efficiency and allocation of emission allowances and energy consumption over more sustainable European economies

Cited by 83 publications

References 56 publications

Renewable Energy in the Electricity Sector and GDP per Capita in the European Union

Renewable Energy in the Electricity Sector and GDP per Capita in the European Union

Dynamic Linkages among Economic Development, Energy Consumption, Environment and Health Sustainable in EU and Non-EU Countries

Sustainable regional energy planning: The case of hydro

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