EU energy innovation policy: the curious case of energy efficiency

2017 ◽  
pp. 501-518 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Rosenow ◽  
Florian Kern
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Innovation Policy ◽  
Energy Innovation

scholarly journals УПРАВЛІННЯ ЕНЕРГОЕФЕКТИВНІСТЮ ТА ЕНЕРГОЗБЕРЕЖЕННЯМ НА БАЗІ УНІВЕРСИТЕТСЬКОГО ЕНЕРГО-ІННОВАЦІЙНОГО ХАБА ЗНАНЬ

2022 ◽  
pp. 45-53
Author(s):  
Valeriia G. Scherbak ◽  
Оlena M. Nifatova
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Energy Saving ◽  
Energy Efficient ◽  
Specific Energy Consumption ◽  
Economic Losses ◽  
Efficient Technology ◽  
Energy Innovation ◽  
Energy Efficient Technology ◽  
The University ◽  
Innovation Knowledge

This paper offers an argument for the need to providing further research on improving energy efficiency and searching for modern management methods based on the university energy innovation knowledge hub. The findings have revealed that the specific energy consumption in the Ukrainian economy is unjustifiably higher than that of other European countries and countries with transitive economies. It is noted that economic losses are becoming increasingly apparent in the context of high cost of imported energy resources, low level of energy security, incompetitiveness of industries and significant environmental wastes. The research methodology entails the principle of studying and summarizing factual data on enhancing energy management and quality management systems, as well as the university documentation. To attain the research agenda, the following methods have been employed: the system and structural analysis techniques, management theory, methods of diagnostics and identification, graph theory as well as energy balance methods. The study presents a mechanism of energy efficiency and energy saving management based on the university energy innovation knowledge hub. The findings demonstrate that such a mechanism is able to overcome the rejection by economic actors of innovation technologies in general and energy efficient technologies in particular. The proposed mechanism of energy efficiency and energy saving management based on the university energy innovation hub challenges the implementation of specific economic measures that should include such elements as incentives (motivators) for energy saving, energy market infrastructure and energy efficient technology, energy projects funding sources and tools. The conclusions resume that in modern realia, higher education institutions should promote a shift from a formally declared energy saving policy towards a University energy efficiency economy pattern as an energy autonomy driver, building a strategy for combining indicative and market functions in ensuring energy efficiency.

scholarly journals Renewable energy innovation in Europe: Energy efficiency analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 234 ◽  
pp. 00021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Svitlana Kolosok ◽  
Iuliia Myroshnychenko ◽  
Halyna Mishenina ◽  
Inessa Yarova
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Efficiency Analysis ◽  
Energy Productivity ◽  
Regulatory Policies ◽  
Fiscal Incentives ◽  
Energy Innovation ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Efficiency Indicators ◽  
Energy Efficiency Analysis

In this manuscript, we investigate the importance of renewable energy innovation for achieving inclusive and sustainable goals and the state’s energy security. Emphases in research are made on investigation the effect of regulatory policies and fiscal incentives on achieving renewable energy targets. Exploiting energy data for 28 European countries over the period 1990–2018, we assess the relationship between the volumes of renewable energy and energy efficiency. The statistical analysis we performed in Python. Our results indicate that the share of energy from renewable positively correlates with all energy efficiency indicators except energy productivity.

scholarly journals Bringing rigour to energy innovation policy evaluation

Nature Energy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 284-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacquelyn Pless ◽  
Cameron Hepburn ◽  
Niall Farrell
Keyword(s):  
Policy Evaluation ◽  
Innovation Policy ◽  
Energy Innovation

scholarly journals STATE INNOVATION POLICY FOR GREEN TECHNOLOGIES SUPPORT IN CONSTRUCTION

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 8-13
Author(s):  
Liubov Zgalat-Lоzynska
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Energy Efficient ◽  
Product Life Cycle ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Innovation Policy ◽  
Heat Pumps ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Policy Support ◽  
Hydroelectric Power ◽  
Green Technologies

The purpose of the paper is to determine the status and areas of improvement of state policy to support the development of green technologies in construction. Methodology. This review is based on the characteristics of individual areas of implementation of green technologies in construction. Possibilities of using renewable sources in the process of construction and operation of buildings are considered. It is established that different methods of energy production are used in energy efficient houses. These include photovoltaic solar panels, heat pumps, photothermal collectors, geothermal waters, mini hydroelectric power plants. It is emphasized that the energy consumption of such buildings should also be reduced; for the reason of special architectural design solutions, the energy-efficient materials with high thermal insulation properties are used. The peculiarities of the policy of stimulating the increase of energy efficiency of buildings in Ukraine are considered, the conclusion on its insufficient efficiency is given. The reason for ineffectiveness of the incentive policy is figured out. The directions for reduction of air and water pollution by filtration and use of rain and melt water for household needs are considered. It is established that the active implementation of innovation is impossible mainly due to obsolete housing and worn-out utilities. Eco-design is also used to increase energy efficiency in construction and architects must actively use passive and active methods of designing houses in different climatic conditions. Green construction also involves recycling of construction waste. Improving the environmental efficiency of buildings and structures involves the use of modern insulation materials, coatings. Currently, nanomaterials with unique properties are becoming widespread in construction. They have increased physical characteristics, in particular, accumulated thermal radiation, provided significant energy savings in winter and summer. The results of the study showed that the state regulatory policy (innovation policy, support of science and R&D, technology transfer, price policy regulation, updating of technological regulations) has an extremely important role in stimulating the spread of green technologies in construction. Practical implications. The most important areas of public policy in construction are: the implementation of environmental energy and quality international standards for construction products; stimulating consumer demand for environmentally friendly innovative solutions, including through “green” public procurement, setting reasonable prices for energy resources, stimulating the implementation of a holistic concept of product life cycle; development of financial mechanisms to support the demand for cleaner technologies and innovations.

scholarly journals Selected Issues in Innovation in the Energy Industry. The Case of Poland

2016 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Honorata Nyga-Łukaszewska
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
World Economy ◽  
Resource Scarcity ◽  
Data Availability ◽  
Energy Industry ◽  
Limited Data ◽  
The World ◽  
Innovative Products ◽  
Energy Innovation

Abstract Innovation determines the competitiveness of companies and countries. Innovative products and processes have revolutionized the world economy, and are particularly important in the energy industry. Demand for energy innovation originates from resource scarcity, a surge in energy consumption and stringent environmental regulations. The objective of this paper is to examine the application of selected energy-related innovations in Poland. The analysis is based on the database of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Our analysis covers the period 2009–2014, as extended by limited data availability. From it, we conclude that Poland performed well in selected energy-related innovations. This study extends knowledge concerning the link between energy efficiency/renewables and innovation.

Drying and heating of scrap metal at steelmaking: industrial safety, economics, ecology

2020 ◽  
Vol 76 (12) ◽  
pp. 1353-1258
Author(s):  
V. A. Spirin ◽  
V. E. Nikol’skii ◽  
D. V. Vokhmintsev ◽  
A. A. Moiseev ◽  
P. G. Smirnov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Steel Production ◽  
Scrap Metal ◽  
Industrial Safety ◽  
Technical Solution ◽  
Metal Charge ◽  
Basic Task ◽  
Scrap Heating ◽  
Winter Time

At steel production based on scrap metal utilization, the scrap heating before charging into a melting facility is an important way of energy efficiency increase and ecological parameters improving. In winter time scrap metal charging with ice inclusions into a metal melt can result in a considerable damage of equipment and even accidents. Therefore, scrap preliminary drying is necessary to provide industrial safety. It was shown, that in countries with warm and low-snow climate with no risk of scrap metal icing up during its transportation and storing in the open air, the basic task being solved at the scrap drying is an increase of energy efficiency of steelmaking. InRussiathe scrap metal drying first of all provides the safety of the process and next - energy saving. Existing technologies of scrap metal drying and heating considered, as well as advantages and drawbacks of technical solutions used at Russian steel plants. In winter time during scrap metal heating at conveyers (Consteel process) hot gases penetrate not effectively into its mass, the heat is not enough for evaporation of wetness in the metal charge. At scrap heating by the furnace gases, a problem of dioxines emissions elimination arises. Application of shaft heaters results in high efficiency of scrap heating. However, under conditions of Russian winter the upper scrap layers are not always heated higher 0 °С and after getting into a furnace bath the upper scrap layers cause periodical vapor explosions. The shaft heaters create optimal conditions for dioxines formation, which emit into atmosphere. It was shown, that accounting Russian economic and nature conditions, the metal charge drying and heating in modified charging buckets by the heat of burnt natural gas or other additional fuel is optimal. The proposed technical solution enables to burnt off organic impurities ecologically safely, to melt down ice, to evaporate the wetness in the scrap as well as to heat the charge as enough as the charging logistics enables it. The method was implemented at several Russian steel plants. Technical and economical indices of scrap metal drying in buckets under conditions of EAF-based shop, containing two furnaces ДСП-100, presented.

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