scholarly journals Nuclear Power Industry in the Context of the European Union Energy Policy

2018 ◽  
pp. 3-10
Author(s):  
S. Kaltyhina ◽  
A. Shanchuk ◽  
Yu. Yesypenko ◽  
O. Pecherytsia
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Energy Policy ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Power Industry ◽  
Nuclear Power Industry ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Energy Strategy ◽  
The Impact

The paper presents an overview of changes and trends in the energy policy of the European Union during the recent years, and shows the impact of the energy security issues on the development of nuclear power industry in Europe. Further development of the nuclear power industry as a low carbon source of energy is considered in the context of a comprehensive approach to the struggle against the climate change. In addition, a short overview of the new energy strategy of Ukraine until 2035 is presented, which defines a complex of large-scale reforms in the energy sector in consideration of the European approaches and the EU energy strategy.

scholarly journals Environmental Payback of Renovation Strategies in a Northern Climate—the Impact of Nuclear Power and Fossil Fuels in the Electricity Supply

Energies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ricardo Ramírez-Villegas ◽  
Ola Eriksson ◽  
Thomas Olofsson
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Radioactive Waste ◽  
Global Warming Potential ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Fossil Fuels ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Impact

The aim of this study is to assess how the use of fossil and nuclear power in different renovation scenarios affects the environmental impacts of a multi-family dwelling in Sweden, and how changes in the electricity production with different energy carriers affect the environmental impact. In line with the Paris Agreement, the European Union has set an agenda to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by means of energy efficiency in buildings. It is estimated that by the year 2050, 80% of Europe’s population will be living in buildings that already exist. This means it is important for the European Union to renovate buildings to improve energy efficiency. In this study, eight renovation scenarios, using six different Northern European electricity mixes, were analyzed using the standard of the European Committee for Standardization for life cycle assessment of buildings. This study covers all life cycle steps from cradle to grave. The renovation scenarios include combinations of photovoltaics, geothermal heat pumps, heat recovery ventilation, and improvement of the building envelope. The results show that while in some electricity mixes a reduction in the global warming potential can be achieved, it can be at the expense of an increase in radioactive waste production, and, in mixes with a high share of fossil fuels, the global warming potential of the scenarios increases with time, compared with that of the original building. It also shows that in most electricity mixes, scenarios that reduce the active heat demand of the building end up in reducing both the global warming potential and radioactive waste, making them less sensitive to changes in the energy system.

Analysis of Nuclear Power Industry’s Sustainable Development in China from the Perspective of Innovation Ecosystem

2014 ◽  
Vol 1070-1072 ◽  
pp. 367-370
Author(s):  
Xie Lin Liu ◽  
Xue Mei Ma ◽  
Shu Min Qiu
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Energy Demand ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Electrical Energy ◽  
Power Industry ◽  
Nuclear Power Industry ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Innovation Ecosystem ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Design Production

Power demand of China grows strongly in few decades. Developing nuclear power industry is not only a strategic measure to meet electrical energy demand, but also an inevitable choice to achieve energy conservation and promote green low-carbon development. Innovation Ecosystem theory provides new perspectives and ideas for studying on the sustainable development of nuclear power industry. In this paper, we consider the sustainable development of nuclear power industry would achieve in the Innovation Ecosystem. The characteristic of the nuclear power industry determines that construction and development of nuclear power industry will involve lots of vendors and enterprises, and require all vendors and enterprises that involved make collaborative effort, around the end-user (nuclear power plant) for the design, production and manufacturing, realize win-win finally. Common development and co-evolution of all participants in the nuclear ecosystem is the premise and guarantee of nuclear power industry’s sustainable development.

Of Markets and Subsidies: Counter-intuitive Trends for Clean Energy Policy in the European Union and the United States

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Felix Mormann
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
European Union ◽  
Energy Policy ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Clean Energy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Us ◽  
Clean Energy Policy

Abstract The United States (US) is frequently portrayed as a nation with a deep distrust of big government and a strong commitment to markets and competition. In contrast, the prevailing image of the European Union (EU) is that of a highly bureaucratized polity favouring interventionist economic governance over free market capitalism. In the context of clean energy, however, these roles appear to be somewhat reversed. A top-level survey of the US clean energy policy landscape reveals a surprisingly pervasive reliance on government subsidies with few, if any, competitive elements. EU clean energy policy, meanwhile, reflects an unexpected commitment to market-based instruments and competition. This article suggests that these counter-intuitive policy trends can be explained by critical differences in the black-letter law of both jurisdictions and its enforcement in the courts, among other factors. Unlike their American counterparts, EU judges prioritize the timely transition to a low-carbon energy economy over unrestricted competition among Member States. As the EU pushes for greater intrastate competition in clean energy policy, the US focuses instead on defending the Founding Fathers’ ideal of unfettered interstate competition.

scholarly journals Sustainable Development and Energy Policy: Actual CO2 Emissions in the European Union in the Years 1997–2017, Considering Trade with China and the USA

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 3363 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bartosz Fortuński
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Energy Policy ◽  
Co2 Emissions ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Policy Goals ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Eu Energy Policy ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Eu

One of the ways of implementing the concept of sustainable development by the European Union is their energy policy. Among the three main objectives in its energy policy is a reduction in greenhouse gases (mainly CO2) emissions to at least 20% below 1990 levels by 2020. This study aims to assess the impact of international trade on actual CO2 emission in the EU, China and the USA for the period 1997–2017. For this aim, the Actual-Open CO2 emissions were calculated, taking into account the transfer of CO2 in exported products and services from China and the USA to the EU and vice versa. It is concluded that the actual CO2 emissions in China, the USA, and the EU differed from the traditionally calculated emissions. This has serious consequences for policy, as the factual level of implementation of the EU energy policy goals may be different from what is assumed. Without including the goals of energy policy into trade policy, the effectiveness of measures may be limited. This also has implications for the effectiveness of environmental management systems. When improvements rely on increasing trade with large CO2 emitting countries, the final effect may be opposed to the assumed effect.

scholarly journals Supplier Selection in the Nuclear Power Industry with an Integrated ANP-TODIM Method under Z-Number Circumstances

Symmetry ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 1357
Author(s):  
Ya-Hua Liu ◽  
Heng-Ming Peng ◽  
Tie-Li Wang ◽  
Xiao-Kang Wang ◽  
Jian-Qiang Wang
Keyword(s):  
Alternative Energy ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Analytic Network Process ◽  
Power Industry ◽  
Nuclear Power Industry ◽  
Energy Structure ◽  
Practical Case ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Psychological States ◽  
Network Process

Under the double pressure of global energy consumption and climate change, nuclear power has become a low-carbon alternative energy source that could transform the energy structure of the globe. In the nuclear power industry, selecting suitable suppliers plays a significant role in improving the overall performance of nuclear power projects. Along with this symmetrical impact, this paper aims to develop a multistage decision-support framework to determine the optimal nuclear power equipment supplier, which is constructed in the context of Z-number information. Concretely, the Analytic Network Process (ANP) and Tomada de Decisão Iterativa Multicritério (TODIM) are extended by Z-numbers symmetrically—namely, Z-ANP and Z-TODIM. Z-ANP is first applied to analyze the symmetrical interdependence of criteria, so as to accurately determine the criterion weights. Further, the ranking of alternatives is obtained by Z-TODIM, which sufficiently considers the risk preference and psychological states of decision-makers. Finally, a practical case of nuclear-grade cable procurement in the Karachi 2-3 international nuclear power project is performed to illustrate the practicality of the proposed method, and its robustness and superiority are proven by comparing it with current representative approaches.

scholarly journals Measuring the Renewable Energy Efficiency at the European Union Level and Its Impact on CO2 Emissions

Processes ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (12) ◽  
pp. 923 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mihail Busu
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Co2 Emissions ◽  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Fixed Effects ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Multilinear Regression ◽  
The Impact

Low carbon emissions have a great importance in our life. The increasing importance of carbon emission levels have attracted the interests of researchers and academics in the field. In this article, a panel data econometric model is developed to measure the relationship between renewable energy, energy productivity, population, urbanization, motorization, and Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita and their impacts on carbon dioxide CO2 emissions. Data used in this study was collected from the European Statistical Office (EUROSTAT) and five statistical hypotheses were tested and validated through a multilinear regression model using the Econometric Views (Eviews) 10.0 statistical software. The Hausman test was used to choose between a model with fixed effects and a model with random effects, and the variance inflection factor (VIF) was used to test the collinearity between the independent variables. The author’s findings indicate that renewable energy at the European Union (EU) level has a positive impact on low-carbon emissions. It was found that a 1% increase in renewable energy consumption would reduce the CO2 emissions by 0.11 million tons, while population growth and urbanization degree add more restrictions to the econometric equation of the impact on carbon emissions.

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