The Investigation of Woodfuels’ Involvement in Green Energy Supply Schemes at Northern Greece: The Model Case of the Thrace Prefecture

Abstract:The purpose of this study is to discover the factors shaping public opinion about renewable energy sources and investigate willingness to pay for expansion of renewable energy sources in the electricity mix. Data was collected through a questionnaire applied in Nikaia, an urban municipality of Greece. The respondents have a positive attitude towards renewable energy systems. Most of them have good knowledge of solar and wind energy systems and are using solar water heating, while several respondents own a solar PV system. Environmental protection is seen as the most important reason for investing in a renewable energy system. Willingness to pay for a wider penetration of RES into the electricity mix was estimated to be 26.5 euros per quarterly electricity bill. The statistical analysis revealed the existence of a relationship between RES perceived advantages and willingness to pay for renewable energy. Furthermore, by using a binary logit model, willingness to pay was found to be positively associated with education, energy subsidies, and state support.

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“…Previous surveys on renewables for Greece were taken into consideration for appropriate questionnaire design [19,[63][64][65][66][67].…”

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Public Perceptions and Willingness to Pay for Renewable Energy: A Case Study from Greece

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“…However, resource use is distinguished into four categories: usage of material, water, land, energy, and climate change. Modern agriculture faces significant challenges, including extreme water supply and fertiliser impacts (Zamparas et al, 2019a), deforestation (Tsiantikoudis et al, 2019), GHG emissions (Kyriakopoulos & Chalikias, 2013, Kyriakopoulos et al, 2010, soil erosion, eutrophication (Zamparas et al, 2019b), and water pollution ( (Zamparas et al, 2020). Also, resource use efficiency means allocating and using various scarce resources to reach benefits.…”

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Green productivity and undesirable outputs in agriculture: a systematic review of DEA approach and policy recommendations

Štreimikis¹,

Saraji

2021

Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja

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Measuring efficiency in the presence of undesirable outputs could be difficult depending on how to treat these outputs; thus, undesirable outputs modelling has been an exciting subject of several studies in the Data envelopment analysis (DEA) literature in the last two decades. The present study aims to illustrate a thorough overlook of studies in which DEA has applied for measuring efficiency with undesirable outputs. Fifty-eight articles were published from 2000 to 2020 have been systematically reviewed through PRISMA protocol. The results indicated that "Journal of Cleaner Production" ranked first with six published articles, and Chinese scholars have the most contributions to this field, with twenty-third articles. Also, almost a quarter of the published articles' scope was related to agricultural pollution, and thirteen articles were published in 2016, the highest number of published articles annually. Taken together, the theoretical and empirical implications of research in the field of Green Productivity are discussed, and some policies were recommended.

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“…An excess of wood biomass is produced annually in the area as a result of public and private garden maintenance, traditional agricultural work and the necessary forest fire prevention work in the nearby mountains. The aim was to turn this excess of wood biomass, which was treated as green waste, into a resource usable as energy (Kyriakopoulos et al 2013) Wood chips were the initial solid biofuel used, however issues caused by low density, low calorific power and high heterogeneity forced the change to wood pellets. Green waste mixture composition and moisture has direct consequences on the quality of the wood biofuel (IDAE 2007) obtained and its energetic use capacity (Carrillo-Parra et al 2020, Picchio et al 2020, Miranda et al 2015.…”

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Energy Use of Mediterranean Forest Biomass in Sustainable Public Heating Systems and its Effects on Climate Change – Case of Study

Mayans¹,

Torrent-Bravo

Lopéz

2020

Int. J. Renew. Energy Dev.

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The municipality of Serra, Valencia, located in the Spanish Mediterranean east coast, covers an area of 5,730 hectares, with 95% of this territory lying within the Sierra Calderona Natural Park and 85% being forest. The main axis of the municipality’s economy has been the construction, reducing the primary sector, resulting in uncontrolled growth of forest and deterioration of the landscape. All this has raised forest fire risk to dangerous levels threatening the natural heritage of Serra and the future of the Serra Calderona Natural Park. The study shows how an adequate model of forest biomass management, through energetic use in sustainable public heating systems, can have positive direct effects in the fight against climate change, considering both economics aspects and environmental effects, and its capacity to contribute to the socioeconomic development of agro forestry regions, fixing its habitants and offering a rural development based on the rational use of their natural resources

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The Investigation of Woodfuels’ Involvement in Green Energy Supply Schemes at Northern Greece: The Model Case of the Thrace Prefecture

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Public Perceptions and Willingness to Pay for Renewable Energy: A Case Study from Greece

Public Perceptions and Willingness to Pay for Renewable Energy: A Case Study from Greece

Green productivity and undesirable outputs in agriculture: a systematic review of DEA approach and policy recommendations

Energy Use of Mediterranean Forest Biomass in Sustainable Public Heating Systems and its Effects on Climate Change – Case of Study

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