Bioenergy development in the UK & Nordic countries: A comparison of effectiveness of support policies for sustainable development of the bioenergy sector
Bioenergy development in the UK & Nordic countries: A comparison of effectiveness of support policies for sustainable development of the bioenergy sector
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DOI：
10.1016/j.biombioe.2020.105887
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发表时间：
2021-01-01
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6
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Mikaelsson, Mikael
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作者：
Cross, Sam;Welfle, Andrew J.;Mikaelsson, Mikael
本文采用定量和定性分析来评估英国、瑞典、丹麦和芬兰在促进生物能源方面的政府政策和支持机制的有效性-生物能源是每个国家脱碳战略的关键技术。各国必须制定有效的政策和支持机制，以发展可持续的生物能源部门。本文分析了每个国家生物能源政策的成功，并评估了更广泛的独立变量的重要性，这些变量共同影响了能源部门，经济和环境动态的背景。统计相关性和回归分析，以确定是否有政策景观对实际的生物能源发展的影响。此外，还分析了利益攸关方研讨会和专家访谈的结果，以确定生物能源的驱动因素和障碍。其结果是对生物能源发展的成功和挑战进行了全面分析，并为今后促进该部门提供了可能的经验教训。研究发现，英国和北欧国家分别采用了不同但同样成功的方法来推广生物能源和生物热能。然而，不同国家内部更广泛的因素的影响被认为对生物能源的集体影响可能比任何单一的政策机制更大。因此，从不同国家可行和不可行的做法中吸取经验教训是可信的，但各国也需要制定适合本国独特挑战的自有品牌的政策干预措施。
This paper uses both quantitative and qualitative analyses to evaluate the effectiveness of government policy and support mechanisms in the UK, Sweden, Denmark and Finland in promoting bioenergy - a key technology fundamental to each country's decarbonisation strategies. It is crucial that countries develop effective policies and support mechanisms to grow sustainable bioenergy sectors. This paper analyses the success of bioenergy policies within each country and evaluates the importance of wider independent variables that collectively characterise the background to energy sector, economic and environmental dynamics. Statistical correlation and regression analyses are applied to identify if the policy landscape has had an identifiable impact on actual bioenergy development. Furthermore, the outputs from a stakeholder workshop and expert interviews are analysed to identify drivers and barriers to bioenergy. The result is a comprehensive analysis of the successes and challenges in bioenergy development, and possible lessons that can be drawn for future promotion of the sector. The research finds that the UK and Nordic countries have had different yet equally successful approaches to promoting bio-power and bio-heat respectively. However, the influence of wider factors within different countries is found to have a potentially greater collective impact on bioenergy than any single policy mechanism. Thus there is credence in learning lessons from what does and does not work in different countries, but countries also need to develop their own brands of policy interventions that suit their country's unique challenges.