The effects of climate change are becoming increasingly tangible in forests: more extreme weather, increasing drought risk, the appearance of invasive pests and species, the increase in forest fires, and the change and deterioration of the production ...

This study explores the uncertainty in the production and consumption data of solid biomass for energy by comparing sources from the Joint Research Centre wood resource balances and uses from the Eurostat energy balances. It uses the Visegrad Four (V4) ...

Energy poverty has emerged as one of the major socio-economic challenges in Central Europe over the past few years. While the phenomenon was already present especially among specific vulnerable groups prior to 2021, the combination of an unprecedented ...

Since 2022, the topic of energy security has returned to the debate in the EU and in Central Europe, including in the Visegrad Four (V4) countries. This is mainly due to the growing challenges and risks arising from Russia’s war against Ukraine, Russia’s ...

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 ...