Handbook of Sustainable Energy (Elgar Original Reference)

625 Pages·2011·4.6 MB·English

by  Ibon Galarraga

HANDBOOK OF SUSTAINABLE ENERGY

Handbook of Sustainable Energy
Edited by
Ibon Galarraga
Research Professor, BC3 Basque Centre for Climate Change, Spain
Mikel González-Eguino
Research Associate, BC3 Basque Centre for Climate Change, Spain
Anil Markandya
Ikerbasque Professor and Scientifi c Director, BC3 Basque Centre for
Climate Change, Spain and Honorary Professor, University of Bath, UK
Edward Elgar
Cheltenham, UK • Northampton, MA, USA
© Ibon Galarraga, Mikel González-Eguino and Anil Markandya 2011
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Contents
List of contributors ix
Introduction 1
Ibon Galarraga and Mikel González- Eguino
PART I SUSTAINABLE USE OF ENERGY
1 The sustainability of ‘sustainable’ energy use: historical evidence on the
relationship between economic growth and renewable energy 9
Roger Fouquet
2 Sustainability criteria for energy resources and technologies 21
Geoff rey P. Hammond and Craig I. Jones
3 Economic growth, energy consumption and climate policy 47
M. Carmen Gallastegui, Alberto Ansuategi, Marta Escapa and
Sabah Abdullah
4 The linkages between energy effi ciency and security of energy supply in
Europe 60
Andrea Bigano, Ramon Arigoni Ortiz, Anil Markandya,
Emanuela Menichetti and Roberta Pierfederici
5 Governing a low carbon energy transition: lessons from UK and Dutch
approaches 84
Timothy J. Foxon
PART II ENERGY AND ECONOMICS
6 How energy works: gas and electricity markets in Europe 99
Monica Bonacina, Anna Creti and Susanna Dorigoni
7 Transmission and distribution networks for a sustainable electricity supply 116
Ignacio Pérez- Arriaga, Tomás Gómez, Luis Olmos and Michel Rivier
8 Energy–economic–environmental models: a survey 132
Renato Rodrigues, Antonio G. Gómez- Plana and Mikel González- Eguino
9 Energy supply and the sustainability of endogenous growth 161
Karen Pittel and Dirk Rübbelke
10 Consumer behavior and the use of sustainable energy 181
Reinhard Madlener and Marjolein J.W. Harmsen- van Hout
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PART III RENEWABLE ENERGY AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY
11 Multicriteria diversity analysis: theory, method and an illustrative
application 213
Go Yoshizawa, Andy Stirling and Tatsujiro Suzuki
12 Review of the world and European renewable energy resource potentials 244
Helena Cabal, Maryse Labriet and Yolanda Lechón
13 The cost of renewable energy: past and future 270
Kirsten Halsnæs and Kenneth Karlsson
14 Valuing effi ciency gains in EU coal- based power generation 285
Luis María Abadie and José Manuel Chamorro
15 Energy use in the transport sector: ways to improve effi ciency 314
Kenneth Button
PART IV OTHER ENERGY AND SUSTAINABILITY ISSUES
16 Nuclear power in the twenty- fi rst century 331
Geoff rey P. Hammond
17 Carbon capture technology: status and future prospects 357
Edward John Anthony and Paul S. Fennell
18 Environmental, economic and policy aspects of biofuels 375
Peter B.R. Hazell and Martin Evans
PART V ENERGY AND CLIMATE POLICY
19 The European carbon market (2005–07): banking, pricing and risk- hedging
strategies 395
Julien Chevallier
20 The Clean Development Mechanism: a stepping stone towards world carbon
markets? 415
Julien Chevallier
21 Second- best instruments for energy and climate policy 441
Xavier Labandeira and Pedro Linares
22 Addressing fi elds of rationality: a policy for reducing household energy
consumption? 452
Hege Westskog, Tanja Winther and Einar Strumse
23 The role of R&D1i in the energy sector 470
Alessandro Lanza and Elena Verdolini
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PART VI OTHER DIMENSIONS OF ENERGY
24 Energy and poverty: the perspective of poor countries 505
Rob Bailis
25 The role of regions in the energy sector: past and future 538
Thomas Reisz
26 California’s energy- related greenhouse gas emissions reduction policies 555
David R. Heres and C.- Y. Cynthia Lin
27 Regional experiences: the past, present and future of the energy policy in the
Basque region 573
Jose Ignacio Hormaeche, Ibon Galarraga and Jose Luis Sáenz de Ormijana
Epilogue 593
Anil Markandya
Index 595

Contributors
Luis María Abadie, BC3 Basque Centre for Climate Change, Spain.
Sabah Abdullah, University of the Basque Country, Spain and University of Bath, UK.
Alberto Ansuategi, University of the Basque Country, Spain.
Edward John Anthony, CanmetENERGY, Canada.
Rob Bailis, Yale University, USA.
Andrea Bigano, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Italy.
Monica Bonacina, IEFE, Bocconi University, Italy.
Kenneth Button, George Mason University, USA.
Helena Cabal, Energy Systems Analysis Unit, CIEMAT, Spain.
José Manuel Chamorro, University of the Basque Country, Spain.
Julien Chevallier, Université Paris Dauphine, CGEMP-LEDa, Paris, France.
Anna Creti, Université Paris Ouest – Nanterre, La Défense – EconomiX, and École
Polytechnique, Paris, France.
Susanna Dorigoni, Bocconi University, Italy.
Marta Escapa, University of the Basque Country, Spain.
Martin Evans, Agriprojects Consulting Limited, UK.
Paul S. Fennell, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, UK.
Roger Fouquet, BC3 Basque Centre for Climate Change, Spain.
Timothy J. Foxon, University of Leeds, UK.
Ibon Galarraga, BC3 Basque Centre for Climate Change, Spain.
M. Carmen Gallastegui, University of the Basque Country, Spain.
Tomás Gómez, Institute for Research in Technology (IIT), Universidad Pontifi cia
Comillas de Madrid, Spain.
Antonio G. Gómez- Plana, Public University of Navarre, Spain.
Mikel González- Eguino, BC3 Basque Centre for Climate Change, Spain.
Kirsten Halsnæs, DTU Climate Centre Risø, Denmark.
Geoff rey P. Hammond, Institute for Sustainable Energy and the Environment (I-SEE),
University of Bath, UK.
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