The study aims to compare V4 industry subsectors and identify the most promising for renewables cooperation, investment and development. This is based on publicly available industry data that is consistent across V4 countries, which is rather limited to ...

This paper by Luca Lo Schiavo analyzes the fact-finding investigation of the Italian regulatory Authority (ARERA) into economic generation capacity withholding in Italy's day-ahead electricity market, examining its methodology, findings, and the ...

The present study investigates the optimal integrated greenhouse gas emission abatement strategy for the forest and energy sectors. To this end, a cross-sectoral modelling approach is employed, utilizing two sectoral models and applying them to the case ...

The European Union’s FIT-for-55 and RePower EU policies set forth highly ambitious targets for the deployment of variable renewables. As a result, there will be a significant increase in PV capacity in the short term up to 2030, which will require ...

Renewable energy auctions have emerged globally as a primary tool for promoting electricity from renewable energy sources (RES-E) by awarding operational support to projects that bid the lowest level of required support. While their widespread adoption ...

In this paper, we present a novel simulation model designed to estimate the regional diffusion of residential battery storage and its associated effects on the electricity system under alternative policy scenarios. A significant shortcoming of existing ...

The need for landscape-scale water retention has been a topic of discussion in professional circles for years, and after the 2022 and the subsequent 2024 drought, the topic reached the media's attention. There is an increased societal demand for change ...

In our recent analysis, we estimated the sensitivity of consumption to price and income in the service area of the Tiszamenti Regional Waterworks Ltd. The results show that the demand for piped drinking water is price and income inelastic, but more ...

In this study, experts from V4 countries discuss the current state-of-play of green gases in Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. Following a short introduction of the general concept and classification of biogases and hydrogen, structured country ...

Since the latter half of 2021, energy prices have risen owing to gas and fuel shortages following the rapid economic recovery after the restrictive measures due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine exacerbating this stress.