Globalization and Urban Implosion

Longa, Remo Dalla

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-70512-3

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“…Including the imports from very good renewable generation sites in neighbouring countries may allow an importer country to discard its own marginal quality sites for electricity production, thus reducing the costs while still achieving the RE target (Patt et al , 2011). The findings of the BETTER project indicate that the potential cost savings from the use of Article 9 compared to a country-by-country target achievement are €3.8-8.6bn by 2030, or 27-33 per cent of the support cost (Resch et al , 2015), whereas the RES4LESS project found that intra-EU cooperation could reduce support costs by 5-17 per cent (Dalla Longa and Raimundo, 2012).…”

Section: Results: Factors For the Success Or Failure Of Articlementioning

confidence: 99%

“…At the centre of the discussion of how to achieve this by mid-century is not only the question of which technologies are most suited and should be supported – be it nuclear, fossil fuels with carbon capture and storage or renewables – but also the geographic scale at which the decarbonisation should take place. If the European Union (EU) chooses a renewables path, several studies have shown that there are great economic benefits of expanding renewables in a unified European approach and not through a collection of individual national programmes (Dalla Longa and Raimundo, 2012; ECF, 2010; Unteutsch and Lindenberger, 2014).…”

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Understanding the absence of renewable electricity imports to the European Union

Lilliestam

Ellenbeck

Karakosta

et al. 2016

IJESM

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Purpose This paper aims to analyse reasons for the absence of renewable electricity (RE) imports to the European Union, for which the authors develop a multi-level heuristic. Design/methodology/approach The heuristic covers three sequential acceptance levels: political attractiveness (macro-level), the “business case” (micro-level) and civil society perspectives (public discourse level). Findings Numerous factors on all three levels determine the success/demise of renewables trade. So far, trade has failed on the macro-level, because European policymakers perceive that targets can be achieved domestically with significant co-benefits and because exporter countries have rapidly increasing electricity demand, limiting the realisable exports. As policymakers deemed it unattractive, they have not implemented policy-supported business cases. Public opposition against trade has not been an issue as no concrete plans or projects have been proposed. Research limitations/implications The authors show that the factors determining whether a RE programme is successful are plentiful and extend far beyond potential cost savings. This suggests that future research and the energy policy debate should better account for how cost savings are weighed against other policy aims and explicitly include the perspectives of investors and the public. Originality/value This paper adds the first holistic analysis of success/failure factors for RE trade to Europe. The three-level, sequential framework is new to energy policy analysis.

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confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%