The European Union's Energy Efficiency Directive calls for EU Member States to put in place ambitious energy efficiency policies and requires them to establish energy saving targets. One of the most important Articles of the Directive is Article 7, which required Member States to implement...

The PESETA project has estimated the physical effects of climate change in Europe for the following impact categories with a market valuation: agriculture, river floods, coastal systems and tourism. Four alternative scenarios of future climate change have been considered. The computable general...

Recent research shows significant differences in the levelised photovoltaics (PV) electricity cost calculations. The present paper points out that no unique or absolute cost figure can be justified, the correct solution is to use a range of cost figures that is determined in a dynamic power...

Twinning is an innovative tool utilized in the EU enlargement process. It is designed to strengthen the institutional capacities of the candidate countries to implement the acquis communautaire. Twinning involves the long-term secondment of a Member State public servant to the domestic...

This paper compares three earlier model projections with the shares of power technologies proposed in the National Renewable Action Plans (NREAPs) of the European Member States (MS). We aim to give deeper insight to the renewable energy policy support and policy formulation processes and...

This paper provides a key element for the calculation of the damage costs of air pollution, namely the valuation of mortality, important because premature mortality makes by far the largest contribution. Whereas several studies have tried to quantify the cost of air pollution mortality by...

Napjaink növekvő energiafelhasználása és a fosszilis energiaforrások kimerülésének veszélye egyre inkább előtérbe helyezi a megújuló energiaforrásokon alapuló energiaellátást. Az egyik lehetőség a lágyszárú biomassza energetikai hasznosítása, melynek azonban alacsony...

A tanulmány a vezetékesgáz-üzletágat vizsgálja az Európai Unió és Oroszország viszonylatában. A két gazdasági és világpolitikai szereplő merőben eltérő energiastratégiai felfogások mentén alakítja energiabiztonságra vonatkozó célrendszerét. A két aktor a 2005–2006...

The paper focuses on projects aimed at energy saving on the residential / housing segment of the building energy / energetic market where SMEs and microenterprises are predominant in Hungary and expect finding individual business opportunities. The first part of this paper refers to the...

A Közgáz Diáktudós sorozat a Budapesti Corvinus Egyetem karain folyó tudományos diákköri (TDK) munkába kínál betekintést. Köteteinkben a legjobb hallgatók szélesebb közönségnek szánt írásait adjuk közre, amelyek TDK dolgozataik alapján készültek. A Közgáz diáktudós...