Energy Transition: Time Matters

Globally, the heat sector has a major share in energy consumption and carbon emission footprint. To provide reliable mitigation options for space heating, domestic hot water, industrial process heat and biomass for cooking for the energy transition time frame up to the year 2050, energy system modeling relies on a comprehensive and detailed heat demand database in high spatial resolution, which is not available. This study overcomes this hurdle and provides a global heat demand database for the mentioned heat demand types and in a resolution of 145 mesoscale regions up to the year 2050 based on the current heat demand and detailed elaboration of parameters influencing the future heat demand. Additionally, heat demand profiles for 145 mesoscale regions are provided. This research finds the total global heat demand will increase from about 45,400 TWhth in 2012 up to about 56,600 TWhth in 2050. The efficiency measures in buildings lead to a peak of space heating demand in around 2035, strong growth in standards of living leads to a steady rise of domestic hot water consumption, and a positive trend for the worldwide economic development induces a growing demand for industrial process heat, counterbalanced by the efficiency gain in already industrialised countries. For the case of biomass for cooking, a phase-out path until 2050 is presented. Literature research revealed a lack of consensus on future heat demand. This research intends to facilitate a more differentiated discussion on heat demand projections.

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Determinants and barriers of PV self-consumption in Spain from the perception of the installers for the promotion of distributed energy systems

ECONOMICS AND POLICY OF ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT ◽

10.3280/efe2020-001007 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 153-169

Author(s):

José Ángel Gimeno ◽

Eva Llera Sastresa ◽

Sabina Scarpellini

Keyword(s):

European Union ◽

Energy Transition ◽

Legal Framework ◽

Low Carbon ◽

The European Union ◽

Distributed Energy ◽

Sustainable Solutions ◽

Highly Sensitive ◽

Transition Scenario

Currently, self-consumption and distributed energy facilities are considered as viable and sustainable solutions in the energy transition scenario within the European Union. In a low carbon society, the exploitation of renewables for self-consumption is closely tied to the energy market at the territorial level, in search of a compromise between competitiveness and the sustainable exploitation of resources. Investments in these facilities are highly sensitive to the existence of favourable conditions at the territorial level, and the energy policies adopted in the European Union have contributed positively to the distributed renewables development and the reduction of their costs in the last decade. However, the number of the installed facilities is uneven in the European Countries and those factors that are more determinant for the investments in self-consumption are still under investigation. In this scenario, this paper presents the main results obtained through the analysis of the determinants in self-consumption investments from a case study in Spain, where the penetration of this type of facilities is being less relevant than in other countries. As a novelty of this study, the main influential drivers and barriers in self-consumption are classified and analysed from the installers' perspective. On the basis of the information obtained from the installers involved in the installation of these facilities, incentives and barriers are analysed within the existing legal framework and the potential specific lines of the promotion for the effective deployment of self-consumption in an energy transition scenario.

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"Energy transition for green growth" bill: attempting to renovate the French Energy model

ECONOMICS AND POLICY OF ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT ◽

10.3280/efe2014-002001 ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 5-20

Author(s):

Patrice Geoffron

Keyword(s):

Energy Transition ◽

Energy Model ◽

Green Growth

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Features of the development of the Russian energy sector in the context of the fourth energy transition

Problems of Economics and Management of Oil and Gas Complex ◽

10.33285/1999-6942-2020-2(182)-51-58 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 51-58

Author(s):

A.A. Masalkova ◽

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E.S. Romanova ◽

Keyword(s):

Energy Transition ◽

Energy Sector

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Challenges, Concerns, and Perspectives for Poland's Energy Transition during Global COVID-19 Pandemic

Global Energy Law and Sustainability ◽

10.3366/gels.2020.0022 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 169-173

Author(s):

Andrzej Lorkowski ◽

Robert Jeszke

Keyword(s):

Internal Energy ◽

Energy Transition ◽

Energy Transformation ◽

Modern Times ◽

Current Discussion ◽

The Face ◽

National Governments ◽

The Eu ◽

At Home

The whole world is currently struggling with one of the most disastrous pandemics to hit in modern times – Covid-19. Individual national governments, the WHO and worldwide media organisations are appealing for humanity to universally stay at home, to limit contact and to stay safe in the ongoing fight against this unseen threat. Economists are concerned about the devastating effect this will have on the markets and possible outcomes. One of the countries suffering from potential destruction of this situation is Poland. In this article we will explain how difficult internal energy transformation is, considering the long-term crisis associated with the extraction and usage of coal, the European Green Deal and current discussion on increasing the EU 2030 climate ambitions. In the face of an ongoing pandemic, the situation becomes even more challenging with each passing day.

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Transisi Kepemimpinan Dalam Alkitab

Journal Kerusso ◽

10.33856/kerusso.v1i1.44 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 16-38

Author(s):

Jonathan Octavianus

Keyword(s):

New Testament ◽

Old Testament ◽

Jesus Christ ◽

Transition Time ◽

People Of God ◽

The Absolute

As every epoch there are there a transition time, on Old Testament like Moses with Joshua, Joshua selected by God an supported fully by Moses, Conversely Moses have liberally to be changed. Like Elijah to Elisha too.Pattern on New Testament there are an examples of transition time too, like Jesus Christ to His Disciples, an transition from Paul to his successor Timothy. This is a heart and soul a big leader, and shall all leadership owners shepherd in church, Christian institution, etc.Which most be remembered in transition of leadership, that people of God leadership, about who will lead, who continue leadership, like a principle in biblical, hence a role of God, is determinant an anoint man which be selected the absolute God choice and constitute all other, but a succession router leader is which have been selected His own. An can be anointed in front of believers.

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Coal's Persistence in the Capitalist World-Economy

Sociology of Development ◽

10.1525/sod.2020.6.2.194 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. 194-221 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Paul K. Gellert ◽

Paul S. Ciccantell

Keyword(s):

World Economy ◽

Industrial Revolution ◽

Energy Transition ◽

Ecological Modernization ◽

World Systems ◽

Coal Consumption ◽

The World ◽

Capitalist World Economy ◽

Capitalist World

Predominant analyses of energy offer insufficient theoretical and political-economic insight into the persistence of coal and other fossil fuels. The dominant narrative of coal powering the Industrial Revolution, and Great Britain's world dominance in the nineteenth century giving way to a U.S.- and oil-dominated twentieth century, is marred by teleological assumptions. The key assumption that a complete energy “transition” will occur leads some to conceive of a renewable-energy-dominated twenty-first century led by China. After critiquing the teleological assumptions of modernization, ecological modernization, energetics, and even world-systems analysis of energy “transition,” this paper offers a world-systems perspective on the “raw” materialism of coal. Examining the material characteristics of coal and the unequal structure of the world-economy, the paper uses long-term data from governmental and private sources to reveal the lack of transition as new sources of energy are added. The increases in coal consumption in China and India as they have ascended in the capitalist world-economy have more than offset the leveling-off and decline in some core nations. A true global peak and decline (let alone full substitution) in energy generally and coal specifically has never happened. The future need not repeat the past, but technical, policy, and movement approaches will not get far without addressing the structural imperatives of capitalist growth and the uneven power structures and processes of long-term change of the world-system.

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