Towards the 2020 climate and energy goals: cost-effective policy instruments for CO2 emission reduction and renewable energy support in Austria
Abstract
Austria committed to a 16% reduction of CO2 emissions compared to the reference year 2005 and to an increase of renewable energy production to 34% of final energy consumption by 2020. Even though Austria has implemented a number of policy instruments to attain these targets, it is still far from complying with them. The objective of this research project is therefore to assess cost-effectiveness of the currently implemented policy instrument mix in the renewable energy sectors such as feed-in tariffs and fuel blending obligations as well as simulate additionally available instruments such as a CO2 tax. Synergies and trade-offs are analyzed between these instruments with respect to CO2 emission reduction and additional renewable energy generation. An existing spatially explicit bioenergy system model will be extended to include wind and photovoltaic energy generation. The model will be applied to asses cost-effective policy instruments as well as estimating the effect and the costs of policy instruments on the deployment of renewable energy technologies.
keywords renewable energies energy modeling wind energy
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Project staff
Johannes Schmidt
Assoc. Prof. Priv.-Doz. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.nat.techn. Johannes Schmidt
johannes.schmidt@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-73118
Project Leader
01.01.2011 - 31.12.2012