The wasted energy: A metric to set up appropriate targets in our path towards fully renewable energy systems

Juan José Vinagre Díaz, Mark Richard Wilby and Ana Belén Rodríguez González

Energy, 2015, vol. 90, issue P1, 900-909

Abstract: By 2020 Europe has to increase its energy efficiency and share of renewables in 20%. However, even accomplishing these challenging objectives Europe will be effectively wasting energy as we demonstrate in this paper.

Keywords: Wasted energy; Renewable energy; Primary energy factors; Energy efficiency; Energy objectives in the EU (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2015.07.118

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