Reducing CO2 emissions of the Dutch refining industry towards 2050: Analysing CO2 reducing alternatives by extending the traditional Technology Assessment so that it incorporates economic and institutional perspectives

The European Union aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80% to 95% below 1990 levels by 2050. For the Netherlands, a reduction of 80% implies that a limited amount of 30 Mton CO2 per annum may be emitted in 2050. Such a reduction could especially affect the Dutch refining industry as it is a large emitter of CO2 with a total of 11 Mton of...

Exploring biogas stakeholder interaction in the Netherlands: An Agent Based Modeling approach to explore location specific biogas system performance under different scenarios

Biogas networks can reduce CO2 emissions by replacing natural gas consumption with biogas consumption. This means that biogas production can contribute to the Dutch targets to reduce CO2 emissions by 20% and increase renewable energy production to 16% by 2020 compared to 1990 levels. It is unclear how the biogas infrastructure system will...

An Exploratory Model to Investigate the Dynamics of the World Energy System: A Biophysical Economics Perspective

Energy is inherent part of our current life. No one can imagine living without it. It has changed the lifestyle of people and it will continue to do so in future. About 80% of current global total primary energy supply belongs to non-renewable resources. It is also expected that non-renewable resources dominate in total primary energy supply in...