Electricity and climate policy measures: The unknown known: Summary of the doctoral thesis
2022
RozentaleRozentāle, Līga, Liga
The aim of the Thesis is to research those Latvian electricity policy areas which are underdeveloped or overlooked in the current electricity policy framework in order to define the possible improvements from the perspective of achieving climate targets. The following tasks were defined to achieve the aim of the Thesis: 1. To evaluate the current electricity policy measures in Latvia and the role of climate aspects in it. 2. To assess the economic and technical prospects for accelerating electricity generation from solar panels and wind parks in Latvia while considering these capacities as the potential for creating energy communities. 3. To analyse the possibilities of decreasing the consumption of fossil fuels by taking into account the energy intensity in manufacturing in Latvia as well as the possible benefits from railway electrification while also considering the overall electricity consumption reduction by involvement of aggregators. 4. To propose new electricity policy measures for the National Energy and Climate Plan of Latvia based on the conclusions from Tasks 2 and 3 while providing quantitative assumptions on the effect of these measures. Hypothesis of the Doctoral Thesis: Additional overlooked electricity policy measures in the National Energy and Climate Plan of Latvia can play an important role in the way towards achieving climate neutrality. The Thesis utilizes seven different types of methodologies for evaluating the electricity policy measures that are not covered or at least not fully covered by the National Energy and Climate Plan (NECP) of Latvia. As has been summarized in Fig. 1, six of the methodologies are united by the final research using theory-based approach.
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