Energy Supply within Sustainable Agricultural Production: Challenges, Policies and Mechanisms

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022
• Subjects: Environmental economics; Research & information: general; agri-environmental indicators; agricultural biogas; agricultural holding; agricultural land; agricultural law; agricultural policy; agricultural production; agricultural residues; agriculture; animal production; autonomous energy regions; beekeeping; biodiesel; biodiversity; bioenergy; bioenergy potential; biofuels; biogas; biogas plant; biomass; biomethane; cereals; climate policy; club convergence; cointegration; comparative analysis; consumer behaviour; consumer innovativeness; convergence; cost of capital; crop rotation; crude oil prices; CSA; data envelopment analysis (DEA); depression funnel; development strategies; direct energy use; distributed generation; economic entities; economic performance; economic profitability; economic value; edible energy; efficiency ranking; energetic optimization; energy; energy consumption; energy crops; energy efficiency; energy innovation; energy patents; energy policy; energy poverty; energy security; environmental policy stringency; EROI; EU countries; EU funds; European energy sector; European Union; European Union funds; external cost; FADN; farmers' households; farms; food prices; food production; forest residues; GHG; GHG emission; GHGs emissions; Granger causality; green agriculture; green performance index; greenhouse gas emissions; HRST; intra-industry analysis; investment attractiveness of regions; investments in renewable energy sources; IPCC; landscape; legal sources on renewable energy; local authorities; local development; local investments; manure; marginal land use; municipal economy; oilseeds and rape; opencast lignite; PCA; photovoltaic installations; photovoltaic systems; plant production; Poland; Polish households; potatoes; profit maximization; profitability of production; prosumer energy; public policy; PV systems; R&D expenditure; regional analysis; regional potential; renewable energy; renewable energy production; renewable energy resources; renewable energy sources; rural areas; rural communities; sectoral structure of production; settlement systems; short rotation coppice of willow/poplar; single-family houses; social welfare; solar installations; solid biomass; straw; substrates; sugar beet; support mechanisms; sustainability; sustainable development; sustainable energy; taxonomic methods; the SDG 7; Ukraine; vector autoregressive model; WACC; wheat straw; zero unitarization method
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 Providing the security of a broad-based energy and slowing the speed of climate change are the main challenges today of the basic of legal framework to stimulate the development of alternative energy sources. Energy from renewable sources is one part of the system, which not only enables to provide energy self-sufficiency, but also contributes to the reduction heating of the Earth's atmosphere. International climate agreements indicate the need to intensify the prevention of global warming and accelerate the reduction in CO2 emissions. The implementation of such challenging plans as outlined in the European Green Deal or "Fit for 55," among others, entails the almost complete elimination of GHG emissions in the energy sector, which can be very challenging for some member states. In the EU, the preferred direction of development of RES use is distributed generation and increasing the share of the use of by-products and organic waste for the production biofuels. This creates great opportunities for rural areas, which until the last century were identified with agriculture and the production of food or raw materials. While the role of agriculture will not diminish, as incomes are rising in relatively poor countries with a high elasticity of demand for food, these areas will increasingly perform a number of other important functions as well. The production of energy raw materials and energy, which is no longer a mere idea, but is becoming, thanks to the development of new technologies, a mainstream energy sector that can make contribution to improving energy security and achieving climate neutrality.