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Feed-in tariffs (FIT) are among the most important policy instruments to promote renewable electricity production. The fixed-price FIT (FFIT) which guarantee a fixed price for every unit of produced electricity and the premium based FIT (PFIT) which pay a premium on top of the market price are commonly implemented in the EU. Costs for balancing intermittent electricity production may be significantly...
In the European Union, electricity production from wind energy is projected to increase by approximately 16% until 2020. The Austrian energy plan aims at increasing the currently installed wind power capacity from approximately 1GW to 3GW until 2020 including an additional capacity of 700MW until 2015. The aim of this analysis is to assess economically viable wind turbine sites under current feed-in...
The Austrian energy action plan 2010 aims at increasing annual wind power production by 3 TWh until 2020. A recent study assessed optimal locations for wind power plants based on the calculation of production costs derived from wind speeds modeled in a spatially explicit way for Austria. However, wind power production, as any other intermittent renewable power source, can be highly variable due the...
Bioenergy is one way of achieving the indicative target of 10% renewable energy in the transportation sector outlined in the EU Directive 2009/28/EC. This article assesses the consequences of increasing the use of bioenergy for road transportation on land use, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and fossil fuel substitution. Different technologies, including first and second generation fuels and electric...
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