The need to realise sustainable economic development, which preserves the basis for human existence, is now widely recognised. Natural resources must be used more economically and the burden on the environment eased. The traditional instruments of environmental policy, in particular the use of regulatory law dominant in Germany, are inadequate for this purpose and induce economic costs which are unnecessarily ...
Internationale Gutachten zum Klimawandel stimmen darin überein, dass zur Begrenzung der Globalen Erwärmung auf das 2°C-Ziel ein tiefgreifender gesellschaftlicher Wandel vonnöten ist. Veränderungen in der Nutzung und Erzeugung von Energie, Flächennutzung, Ernährungsweise und Lebensstil sind nicht nur notwendig, um die globale Erwärmung zu begrenzen, sondern auch, um sich an das veränderte Klima und ...
Although electricity supply is still dominated by fossil fuels, it is expected that renewable sources will have a much larger contribution in the future due to the need to mitigate climate change. Therefore, this paper presents a new framework for developing Future Electricity Scenarios (FuturES) with high penetration of renewables. A multi-period linear programming model has been created for power-system ...
