EDGaR D1: Integrating local and regional energy systems for enhancing sustainability. Work Package 3: Designing Institutions for Future Energy Systems

The integration of renewable energy into the Dutch energy infrastructure raises interrelated operational and market challenges. In their efforts to address them, engineers and economists approach the design of electricity infrastructures very differently, however. While economists focus on a market design that addresses potential market failures...

Consensus, contradiction, and conciliation of interests: the geo-economics of the Energy Union

European power struggles. Can the EU's decarbonisation agenda break the state-company axis in the power sector?

Europe’s power system is still marked by a distinct national component, and despite some regions with strongly integrated power systems, electricity supply today still has a largely national basis. Policies to decarbonise the power sector may fundamentally alter this situation, because power generation from renewable, carbon-neutral sources may...

The EU’s 2030 agenda and the Energy Union: Member States’ bargaining positions and the way forward

Legal restrictions and solutions for local solar pv markets in the Netherlands

In the Netherlands, household end-users of electricity face several legal restrictions related to the use of their solar photovoltaic installation. The three main restrictions are the demands of the license of supply, unclarity as to program responsibility and regulated distribution tariffs. This paper analyzes these legal challenges further in...

Power struggles: The geopolitical implications of EU energy policy

Key EU energy policies will produce winners and losers among member states and industries. Increased participation in the EU power market will be considered a strategic issue.

Towards a European Division of Labour: Do Europe’s Crises Highlight Structural Challenges to Sustainable Economic Growth in the Eurozone?

The financial and economic crises of the last few years in many Southern Eurozone countries are generally studied individually, without reference to other such crises in the region. In this note, we argue that they may also be approached as symptoms of an underlying structural challenge facing the EU economy. In many ways the relationship...

Viability of Self-Governance in Community Energy Systems: Structuring an Approach for Assessment

This paper sets out to formulate a structured approach to assist in analyzing the viability of self-governance in community energy systems. Existing research in self-governance in the framework of socio-ecological systems provides a basis for analysis in applications concerning socio-technical systems, but more than a basis is needed. Although...

The geopolitics of renewables: A mere shift or landslide in energy dependencies?

Renewable energy sources are often hailed as the panacea for a plethora of challenges associated with the use of fossil fuels. Partly for good reasons; while the utilization of renewables diminishes energy scarcity and lowers various kinds of pollution, their potential to address energy related geopolitical tensions among producer, consumer, and...

De zin en onzin van het EU integratiedebat

In hoeverre heeft het integratiedebat dat zich afspeelt binnen de Europese Unie invloed op de voortgang van het EU-integratieproces? Dit proces lijkt grotendeels gedreven te worden door bijzondere gebeurtenissen en omstandigheden. Beperkt het debat zich daardoor tot een hobby van academici en de retoriek van politici?

The governance perspectives behind renewables

Increasing fossil fuel scarcity and deteriorating environmental conditions call for a transition towards the use of sustainable energy sources. Policy makers of various countries, however, respond very differently when it comes to the development and deployment of renewable energy technologies. Whereas some countries leave the creation and...

Keeping an eye on reliability: The organizational requirements of future renewable energy systems

The reliable operation of energy infrastructures is more than just a technical matter. It is also dependent upon the organizational structure that enables and constrains entities in their management of operations. Yet this lesson seems forgotten in our planning of future renewable energy systems. There, focus is on technical development, market...

Organizing Future Energy Systems for Reliability

Processchema: De bereiding van fosgeen uit synthesegas en chloor

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