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EU Policy for Renewable Energy Sources: Implications for Producers and Industries

Explore the evolution of EU renewable energy policies, from white papers to directives, with a focus on costs, differentiated treatment of actors, and multi-level analysis. Understand the winners and losers in RES policies, with insights into national support systems and future challenges.

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EU Policy for Renewable Energy Sources: Implications for Producers and Industries

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  1. EU policy for renewable sources of energy Implications for producers and basic industries Lars J. Nilsson CANES Oslo, 20 November 2007

  2. Background • 1997 White Paper, EC COM(97)599 • RES share 6% in 1996 to 12% in 2010 • RES-E Directive, 2001/77/EC • RES-E share to 22% (21%) in 2010 • Biofuels Directive, 2003/30/EC • 5.75% by 2010 • New target: 20% RES by 2020 (but also 10% biofuels, -20% CO2, and 20% energy savings in 2020) • New framework Directive (climate and energy package): • Proposal comes post-Bali (in late January) and the debate will rage for 18-24 months • How distribute the burden of emission reductions and RES increase between member states? • How handle the integration of ETS and green certificates? • Certificate systems debated • Sustainability criteria debated • Heating/Cooling? • Gas?

  3. Costs and prices (back of a napkin) • Coal production cost: 4-8 EUR/MWh • Coal at 20 EUR/tCO2: 11-15 EUR/MWh • Bioenergy price: 14-17 EUR/MWh • Pulp wood price (300 kr/m3): ~18 EUR/MWh • Coal at 50 EUR/tCO2: 20-24 EUR/MWh • N.B. Swedish CO2 tax already about 100 EUR/tCO2 • Coal power at 50 EUR/tCO2: >50-60 EUR/MWh • Wind power production cost: >40 EUR/MWh • Oil price at $50-$100/barrel: 20-40 EUR/MWh • Gasoline price 12 kr/l: 140 EUR/MWh

  4. How can differentiated treatment between actors in EU RES-policy be explained? • To what extent is there differentiated treatment between producers and consumers in the EU-level policy? • Is it expressed in differentiated treatment of energy carriers? • Is it expressed in differentiated treatment of renewable energy sources? • Is it expressed in differentiated treatment of member states? • How can it be explained by the influence of special interests and ideas represented by stakeholders, coalitions, etc?

  5. Tentative elements of differentiated treatment Winners and losers in RES-policy • Incumbent producers have lost some of their position to new actors • Consumers may have lost through higher electricity prices? (but there is income from certificates and perhaps a slightly lower electricity price in Sweden) • There is differentiated treatment between energy carriers: Focus has been on electricity (and biofuels) • There is differentiated treatment between renewable energy sources: Ground source heat is not considered as RES • There is (sometimes) differentiated treatment between member states: Targets for RES-E are differentiated (but not for biofuels)

  6. A multi-level analysis approach • Level of coordination and capacity of producers and consumers to influence the Council, Commission and Parliament? • Level of coordination and capacity of producers and consumers to influence member states? • The role of global trends, international committments and ambitions (climate, trade etc.) • EU-level policy outcomes and tentative explanations • National systems of RES-E support: Strong MS/coalitions prevented quota/certificates based systems • Competition for biomass was not seriously considered: Forest industry did not make its voice heard (cf noise about biofuel and food) • Strong focus on first generation EU biofuels, not imports or natural gas (or electricity?): Agricultural lobby has hi-jacked biofuels policy • Differentiated treatment between actors under RES-policy mainly result from policy at the national level (details of support systems, rules of access, permit procedures, etc.)?

  7. A couple of questions: • Should we focus mainly on aspects relevant to electricity in a Nordic context? • Wind, hydro, biomass and heat pumps? • Heat/CHP, green gas, biofuels? • What are the key future issues? • Biomass competition • Large scale wind integration • Role of electricity in transport? • More?

  8. Share of Biofuels in Road-Transport Fuel Demand 32% 28% 24% 20% 16% 12% 8% 4% 0% World United States European Union Brazil 2004 2030 Reference Scenario 2030 Alternative Policy Scenario Outlook for Biofuels Source: IEA, World Energy Outlook 2006

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