Katalin Bódis

Institute of Advanced Studies (iASK), Kőszeg, Hungary

There are over 650 million people in Africa who have no access to electricity; this is in sharp contrast to the continent's vast untapped renewable energy potential and due largely to the historical lack of investments in energy infrastructure. New investments in decentralised power generation within Sub-Saharan Africa play a progressively importan...

In this data article, we present datasets from the construction of a composite indicator, the Photovoltaic Decentralised Energy Investment (PV-DEI) index, presented in detail in [1]. This article consists of the comprehensive energy-related data collected in practice from several sources, and from the outputs of the methodology described in [1]. Th...

To implement the Energy Union and the EU's commitments under the Paris Agreement signed in December 2015, the European Commission proposed in 2016 the "Clean Energy for All Europeans" package. This legislative package is supported by a number of measures also considering initiatives for coal mining regions in transition. These include the launch of...

The Atlas shows, for selected cities, the likely effects of the implementation of “Traffic Policies” intended to reduce urban NO2 concentrations. As NO2 pollution in urban areas is mainly caused by traffic, the analysis focuses on assessing the relative contribution to the NO2 concentration in ambient air from different types of vehicles. The resul...

This paper undertakes a comprehensive spatial mapping of the existing energy infrastructure in Kenya. With the perspective of the current energy status and local resources, the study develops a rural electrification spatial model for Kenya (RE_RU_KE tool) to identify optimal strategies for the different locations. The model considers the potential...

Rooftop solar photovoltaic (PV) systems can make a significant contribution to Europe's energy transition. Realising this potential raises challenges at policy and electricity system planning level. To address this, the authors have developed a geospatially explicit methodology using up-to-date spatial information of the EU building stock to quanti...

The use of coal for electricity generation is the main emitter of Greenhous Gas Emissions worldwide. According to the International Energy Agency, these emissions have to be reduced by more than 70% by 2040 to stay on track for the 1.5-2 • C scenario suggested by the Paris Agreement. To ensure a socially fair transition towards the phase-out of coa...

The first European Renewable Energy Directive had a time horizon from 2009 until 2020. The effects of this directive were the drafting of roadmaps describing how the Member States of the European Union, planned to reach their respective renewable energy targets and created a confidence in investors to invest in the sector. Photovoltaic installation...

Decarbonising the EU energy system will require that renewables provide most, if not all, of electric power, with photovoltaics (PV) contributing a substantial share. At terawatt-scale deployment levels, the surface area used for PV installations will be large in absolute terms, but not necessarily a large percentage of available area. The study us...

1 The scientific output expressed is based on the current information available to the authors, and does not imply a policy position of the European Commission. Abstract-Over the last decade, the utilisation of renewable energy in the electricity sector, especially from solar, is growing at a much faster pace than the rest of the economy in Europe...

Mitigating the big challenges of access to clean water, energy and poverty in Africa requires integrated solutions. The analysis of issues related to the water, energy, food and the ecosystem through a nexus approach, has attracted the interest of scientists, policy-makers and the private sector. The present Technical Report examines the potential...

Energy transition of the EU building stock, from being an energy waster to being highly energy efficient and an energy producer, is a prerequisite for Europe’s carbon neutrality, as well as for meeting Europe’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Achieving these targets requires shifting the emerging energy renovation market from a market of step...

In January 2018 the European Parliament voted for a binding target of 35% Renewable Energy by 2030 to fulfil the pledges of the European Union towards the Paris Agreement of 2016. The contribution of photovoltaic electricity to reach this target was estimated at about 380 TWh, which would require roughly 350GW of PV system capacity - more than thre...

Energy access rates in sub-Saharan Africa are the lowest worldwide. In order to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals in Africa and provide modern electricity services, significant power capacities need to be installed. The proposed article presents an alternative approach, where existing water infrastructure is utilized to host renewable energ...

People, planet, prosperity and peace are four priorities shared by Africa and Europe, and areas where opportunities for beneficial cooperation abound. Over the past three decades, the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) has worked with many organisations and institutions across Africa. This report and its accompanying interactive onli...

The energy sector accounts for the lion’s share (55 %) of greenhouse gas emissions in the European Union (EU). While EU emissions had fallen by 22.1 % in 2015 compared with 1990, and continue to fall, the bloc’s economy grew by 27 % over that period. Since the Renewable Energy Directive (RED) entered into force, use of renewables has continued to g...

This Policy Brief is related to the publication - Renewable Energy Deployment in the European union

This report describes the current status and limitations of the power sector in Burkina Faso and develops a new methodology that through spatial analysis processes aims to provide a possible pathway for universal electricity access through a sustainable energy mix. Two percent of the rural population in Burkina Faso has access to electricity and su...

This report presents a snapshot of renewable energy development and progress expected by 2020, as forecasted in the EU Member States’ reporting under the Renewable Energy Directive and projected in the EU Reference 2016 and EUCO27 scenarios. The report compares the progress achieved between 2005 and 2015, as reported by EU Member States in their pr...

Local urban planning has become concerned over clean energy technologies development on greenfield land that may lead to competition in land use. Solar photovoltaic systems on agriculture land is an indicative example of this disputed strategy. At the same time closed landfills and their post-closure management pose environmental, economic and land...

Sustainable energy in the Danube region as an integral part of the EU 2020 strategy - Analysis of NREAPs, NEEAPs and renewable energy progress reports of Danube region countries. 2016 EUR 27730 EN

Pioneering approaches are needed to accelerate universal access to electricity while simultaneously transitioning to reliable, sustainable and affordable energy systems. In sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), the challenges lie in attracting the private sector to complement public investments. Here, we present an integrated ‘low-hanging-fruit’ approach aimed...

This paper describes the status quo of the power sector in Burkina Faso, its limitations, and develops a new methodology that through spatial analysis processes with the aim to provide a possible pathway for universal electricity access. Following the SE4All initiative approach, it recommends the more extensive use of distributed renewable energy s...

Electricity production in Mediterranean islands currently depends heavily on imported fossil fuels. This strategy has several disadvantages and has been accused of hindering the islands' sustainable development. In the present research an integrated approach to increase solar photovoltaic (PV) systems' (SPVS) share in the energy mix of Mediterranea...

Key global energy, environmental and sustainability targets are closely related to the development of Renewable Energy Sources (RES). This includes reduction of Greenhouse Gas emissions and safe energy provision in a sustainable manner. The integration of RES in the energy mix needs to overcome the technical challenges that are related to grid's op...

Recognizing the issues of land shortage and growing concerns for protecting natural lands, installers and project developers, with the help of scientists and engineers, continuously try to locate alternative spots for photovoltaic (PV) system installations. In the present paper a novel approach is suggested and analysed: installing solar PV systems...

This paper presents a geographical and computational modelling approach to explore the nonlinear relationship between land use types and geospatial driving factors. It focuses on the dynamism of land use characteristics in a cross-border region. The developed model is based on fully integrated Cellular Automata (CA), Geographic Information System (...

Following the successful Feed-in Tariffs (FiTs) system worldwide, few countries have implemented FiTs explicitly tailored for off-grid or mini-grid systems. This study takes an integrated approach to examine the feasibility of an off-grid Feed-in Tariff (off-FiT) for existing and new remote mini-grids in Tanzania, using a combination of geographica...

Renewable energy technologies/sources (hydropower, wind power, solar power, marine-energy, geothermal energy, heat pumps, biomass and biofuels) are alternatives to fossil fuels contributing to the improvement of environment, enhancement of energy security and diversification of energy supply. In line with Article 4 and Article 22 of the Directive 2...

The current and expected developments up to 2020 of renewable energy and in particular of bioenergy in 13 Danube region countries was the main subject of the presentation. The presentation covered the recent and expected developments in three main sectors in the above mentioned Danube countries: heating/cooling, electricity and transport as well as...

Large-scale solar farms are usually located on agricultural fields, covering areas from few up to hundred hectares. However, installing solar PV systems on agricultural land has been questioned by some analysts, because it might compete with agricultural production. Thus, policy organizations and governments among their strategies to support renewa...

The study presents a cost effective electricity generation portfolio for six island states for a 20-year period (2015–2035). The underlying concept investigates whether adding sizeable power capacities of renewable energy sources (RES) options could decrease the overall costs and contribute to a more sustainable, indigenous electricity generation a...

The report provides an overview of greenhouse gas emission savings in the European Union due to the use of renewable energy in three sectors: electricity, heating/cooling and transport. The assessment is based on data reported by EU Member States in their 2011 and 2013 bi-annual progress reports, as required under Article 22(1)(k) of Directive 2009...

Poster on analysis of Croatian potentials of municipal solid waste for bioenergy

While it is true that modern remote sensing based terrain modelling techniques offer a fast, efficient and relatively cheap way to create terrain models, they are all limited to currently existing features. This means that they cannot provide information about future, planned changes to the terrain. In such cases we need to create surface models th...

While it is true that modern remote sensing based terrain modelling techniques offer a fast, efficient and relatively cheap way to create terrain models, they are all limited to currently existing features. This means that they cannot provide information about future, planned changes to the terrain. In such cases we need to create surface models th...

The European Union has committed itself to ambitious targets of Renewable Energy and bioenergy is expected to play a major role, increasing its contribution to Gross Final Energy Consumption from 2458 PJ in 2005 to 4605 PJ by 2020. Agricultural crop residues are considered a reliable resource for energy uses but important concerns still exist on th...

Energy renovation is instrumental for reaching the EU 2020 goals. It has implications for growth and jobs, energy and climate and cohesion policies. Renovating existing buildings is a 'win-win' option for the EU economy. In 2011, specialised construction activities that include renovation work and energy retrofits employed three times as many peopl...

The potential of Waste-to-Energy (WtE) as a way to both improve waste management and to produce renewable energy has been recognized in some of EU Member States (MS) and WtE started to play important role in reaching both renewable energy and waste management targets. In colder European areas waste is incinerated in plants able to produce either he...

The potential of Waste-to-Energy (WtE) as a way to both improve waste management and to produce renewable energy has been recognized in some of EU Member States (MS) and WtE started to play important role in reaching both renewable energy and waste management targets. In colder European areas waste is incinerated in plants able to produce either he...

The Global PV production and installation markets have experienced very fluctuating pathways in the various key performing countries. The latest Photovoltaic Snapshot [1] gives most up-to-date accurate picture of the overall development since 2005. While the key European participants of the PV panel and cell production markets has experienced a fas...

This report was prepared according to the conclusions of the Meeting of the Committee for the adaptation to scientific and technical progress and implementation of the Directives on waste established under article 39 of Directive 2008/98/EC (Waste Framework Directive- WFD) which took place in Brussels on 18th October 2013. Within the conclusion of...

The paper introduces a transparent methodology to assess new suitable locations for mini and small hydro power plants in Europe. The expansion of hydro electricity production is a policy focus not only in Europe, but in the US (Hydropower Regulatory Efficiency Act of 2013) and in the developing world as well. The analysis of the technical potential...

Identifying and evaluating the driving forces that are behind land use and land cover changes remains one of the most difficult exercises that geographers and environmental scientists must continually address. The difficulty emerges from the fact that in land use and land cover systems, multiple actions and interactions between different factors (e...

Magyarország kistájait a D-e-Meter rendszer szántó minősítési eljárását használva minősítettük. A kitájak talajainak minősége és a talajféleségek kistájban betöltött területi arányai alapján számoltuk a kistájra jellemző földminőség mutatót. A kistájanként számszerűsített eredmények összehasonlítása révén értékeltük az ország szántóföldi növényterm...

The report aims to present a comprehensive analysis of current and expected deployment up to 2020 of bioenergy in 16 countries of Danube region: nine European Member States ( Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia) and seven non-European countries ( Ukraine, Republic of Moldova, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzeg...

Recognizing the issues of land shortage and growing concerns for protecting natural lands, installers, project developers with the help of scientists and engineers try to locate alternative spots for PV-systems installations. In the present paper the authors describe a novel approach, installing PV systems on the outside face of dams. This approach...

The Joint Research Centre of the European Commission JRC has developed the African Renewable Energy Technology Platform AFRETEP platform with 760+ African and European members, cooperating institutions for research. As a part of the project the JRC has provided training to nearly a hundred African academics in regional trainings on the state-of-art...

Wind and solar energy are expected to play a major role in the current decade to help Europe reaching the renewable energy penetration targets fixed by Directive 2009/28/EC. However, it is difficult to predict the actual production profiles of wind and solar energy as they depend heavily on variable meteorological features of solar radiation and wi...

Cropland potential of Hungarian geographical microregions was evaluated using the D-e-Meter cropland evaluation system. Comparative assessment was performed to characterize the spatial distribution of cropland potentials of the country. Based on the results of the land quality assessment we produced overview maps to display the mean land quality an...

The present paper introduces the results of a spatial-economic analysis that identifies the least cost rural electrification options that can bring the persistent energy poverty to an end in Sub Saharan Africa. The rationale behind the analysis is that the applicable energy technologies have gone through fundamental changes and these have profound...

The European commission Joint Research Centre has recently published a report (EUR 25980 EN ) providing a first quantitative estimation of climatic effects on renewable energy resources availability for Africa. Key climate parameters: solar radiation, wind speed, precipitation, surface temperature and surface runoff are provided by climate models...

Introduction A framework is developed to link major soil functions to ecosystem services assessment. Provisioning soil functions—with primary linkages to ecosystem services—are evaluated on a continental scale in Europe. Methods We defined major provisioning soil functions combining the approaches proposed by the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment and...

Future Renewable Energy availability under the foreseen climate evolution for the next decades in the African continent is assessed. The evolution pattern of the natural resources (solar radiation, wind, biomass and running water) providing the raw "material" for Renewable Energy is analysed following some key climate scenarios developed and analys...