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Electricity Market Design and Price Signals for Renewables

Electricity Market Design and Price Signals for Renewables
This knowledge package focuses on electricity market design to support an efficient integration of renewable sources into the European electricity system, in line with the 2020 and forthcoming 2030 targets. Considering the sustainable electricity market design, looking into design principles for integrating variable renewable energy and bridging emerging technologies, it concludes the broad variety in terms of market design possibilities.Read more
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Community Energy Projects: Europe's Pioneering Task

Community Energy Projects: Europe's Pioneering Task
Involving citizens in the generation of renewable energy can increase social acceptance and thus enable the low carbon energy transition. The EU is taking a leading role in community-owned energy projects since this has emerged common practice in EU Member States. Denmark and Germany constitute two best practice examples for community energy generation. Denmark focuses on wind power plants, while...Read more
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Energy Efficiency Policy Instruments in the European Union

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Energy Efficiency Obligations are the cornerstone of the Energy Efficiency Directive from 2012. Under such obligations energy companies are responsible for generating energy savings. This policy was already successfully implemented in 6 EU Member States. Other policies like nearly zero energy buildings and energy certification are also planned. This knowledge package investigates the range of energy efficiency policies that are...Read more
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Household Contribution to Buildings' Carbon Footprint

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Households remain one of the most significant contributors to greenhouse gas emissions from the building sector, due to their energy consumptions, with certain Member States having thrice or more the household emission footprint than others. The efforts carried out to minimize their emissions have brought certain results, but more actions are considered necessary. Improvement of households' energy efficiency is a...Read more
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Cost-Effectiveness of EU Renewable Energy Support Systems

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Renewable energy support schemes need to be well designed in order to bring forth the desired outcome, not only regarding the achievement of targets (effectiveness) but also regarding the achievement at lowest costs possible (cost-effectiveness). This knowledge package focuses on the cost-effectiveness of renewable energy support schemes within the EU and highlights design features indispensable in creating cost-effective renewable support.Read more
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Interactions between Climate Policies: Examples from Europe

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Policies to address climate change mitigation that have been deployed in parallel may interact with each other, with positive or negative effects for emission reductions and for cost-effectiveness. This Knowledge Package presents examples from European Union climate policy, renewable energy policy and energy efficiency policy.Read more
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Renewable Energy Support Policies in Europe

Renewable Energy Support Policies in Europe | Fotolia © Carsten Meyer
There are numerous policy instruments available to support the deployment of renewable energy. Within the EU, Member States are subject to renewable energy targets until 2020, but national governments can decide individually on which support policies to implement. This has led to a wide range of different policies.Read more
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