Biomass & Bioenergy ( IF 6 ) Pub Date : 2020-12-08 , DOI: 10.1016/j.biombioe.2020.105887 Sam Cross , Andrew J. Welfle , Patricia Thornley , Sanna Syri , Mikael Mikaelsson
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.
中文翻译:
英国和北欧国家的生物能源发展:生物能源行业可持续发展支持政策有效性的比较
本文使用定量和定性分析来评估英国,瑞典,丹麦和芬兰的政府政策和支持机制在促进生物能源方面的有效性,而生物能源是每个国家脱碳战略的关键技术。各国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至关重要。本文分析了各国生物能源政策的成功之处,并评估了更广泛的自变量的重要性,这些变量共同表征了能源部门,经济和环境动态的背景。应用统计相关和回归分析来确定政策前景是否对实际生物能源发展产生了可识别的影响。此外,对利益相关者研讨会和专家访谈的结果进行分析,以确定生物能源的驱动因素和障碍。结果是对生物能源发展的成功与挑战进行了全面分析,并为未来该领域的发展汲取了可能的经验教训。研究发现,英国和北欧国家在推广生物能和生物热方面分别采取了不同但同样成功的方法。但是,发现在不同国家内,更广泛因素的影响比任何单一政策机制对生物能源的潜在集体影响更大。因此,从不同国家行之有效的教训中汲取教训是可信的,但各国也需要发展自己的品牌政策干预措施,以适应本国的独特挑战。