Energy Efficiency Vision 2050: How will new societal trends influence future energy demand in the European countries?

Brugger, Heike; Eichhammer, Wolfgang; Mikova, Nadezhda; Dönitz, Ewa

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2021.112216

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“…We also recognise that there is considerable crossover between the various trends, and that some could have the potential to increase as well as further reduce energy demand 31 . Nevertheless, developing this narrative gives the sectoral scenarios a consistent underpinning.…”

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Energy demand reduction options for meeting national zero emission targets

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Betts-Davies

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Energy Demand Reduction (EDR) refers to lowering the amount of energy required to provide energy services across mobility, shelter, nutrition or the production of goods and services, among others, with the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. In recent years, global studies have attempted to understand the contribution EDR could make to climate mitigation efforts. Whilst these studies are important to build a global picture, climate targets and policy are necessarily devised at the national level. To address this disconnect, we develop a bottom-up, whole system framework that comprehensively estimates the potential for energy demand reduction at a country level. Replicable for other countries, our framework is applied to the case of the UK where we find that reductions in energy demand of 52% by 2050 compared with 2020 levels are possible without compromising on citizens’ quality of life. This translates to annual energy demands of 40GJ per person, compared to the current OECD average of 55GJ. Our findings show that EDR can reduce reliance on high-risk carbon dioxide removals, moderate investment requirements, and allow space for ratcheting up climate ambition. We conclude that national climate policy should increasingly develop and integrate EDR measures to both articulate national ambition and feeding into international pledges through Nationally Determined Contributions.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 86%

Energy demand reduction options for meeting national zero emission targets

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Pye

Betts-Davies

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“…In addition, the researchers also stated that recent development in the sharing economy and digitalization would counteract or enhance the predicted energy efficiency gains, which, in turn, will significantly influence the future energy demand. Heike Brugger et al [55] presented 12 new social trends which will greatly determine the future energy demand, based on extensive interviews with European experts and literature research. They also evaluated the spatially explicit carbon footprint (CF) at a district and household scale by importing the results of a large-scale household-level consumer survey into a global supply chain database.…”

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Research Hotspots and Evolution Trends of Carbon Neutrality—Visual Analysis of Bibliometrics Based on CiteSpace

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Climate change is one of the most urgent challenges facing the world. All countries should take joint actions to achieve the goal of carbon neutrality, which include controlling global warming to within a 1.5 °C temperature rise, to mitigate the extreme harm caused by climate change. However, ways in which to achieve economically and environmentally sustainable carbon neutrality are yet to be established. Carbon neutrality appears frequently in international policy and the scientific literature, but there is little detailed literature. It is necessary to conduct an in-depth analysis of the development context of its research. This paper analyzed the literature on carbon neutrality using bibliometric methods. A total of 1383 research papers were collected from the “Web of Science core database” from 1995 to 2021. Descriptive statistical analysis and keyword co-occurrence and literature co-citation network analyses were utilized to sort the research hotspots, and the detected bursts, the top 30 keywords in terms of word frequency, and 12 clusters were selected. It was found that the existing carbon neutrality research literature mainly focuses on carbon neutrality energy transformation, carbon neutrality technology development, carbon neutrality effect evaluation, and carbon neutrality industry examples. The analysis process involved comprehensively reading the key articles and considering the co-citation, burstiness, centrality, and other indicators under clustering; the carbon neutrality research was then divided into three stages, and evolving themes were observed. Based on the burst detection, this paper holds that with the energy structure transformation, energy consumption assessment and carbon neutrality schemes of various industries, carbon dioxide capture technology, and biogas resource utilization, urban carbon neutrality policy will become a research hotspot in the future. This paper helps to provide a reference for scholars’ theoretical research and has important reference value for policymakers to formulate relevant policy measures. It is helpful for enterprises to make strategic decisions and determine the direction of technology, for R&D and investment, and it is of considerable significance to promote the research of carbon neutrality technology.

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“…As seen in the debate above, the connection between energy and development has much attention. Only scientific analysis in Table 1 is (Adom et al 2021 ; Brugger et al 2021 ). As of 2020 (Chen et al 2021 ).…”

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confidence: 99%