<abstract xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Climate change and global warming has become one of the main topics worldwide. The European Union Emission Trading System (EU ETS) was established to limit climate change, providing regulations which encourage companies to invest in cleaner production and more energy efficient production. Latvian energy intensive enterprises are operating under the EU ETS from the year 2005.</p><p>The main goal of this paper is to provide an analysis of energy intensive installations in terms of their energy efficiency. Additionally, an analysis of EU ETS phase III which will start to operate in 2013 under new, more stringent rules has been conducted by modelling three Latvian energy intensive enterprise operations under this phase and estimating the barriers to meet the goal of the EU ETS phase III.</p></abstract>

Climate change and global warming has become one of the main topics worldwide. The European Union Emission Trading System (EU ETS) was established to limit climate change, providing regulations which encourage companies to invest in cleaner production and more energy efficient production. Latvian energy intensive enterprises are operating under the EU ETS from the year 2005.The main goal of this paper is to provide an analysis of energy intensive installations in terms of their energy efficiency. Additionally, an analysis of EU ETS phase III which will start to operate in 2013 under new, more stringent rules has been conducted by modelling three Latvian energy intensive enterprise operations under this phase and estimating the barriers to meet the goal of the EU ETS phase III.

Analysis of Energy Intensive Enterprises under EU Emission Trading System in Latvia

Institute of Energy Systems and Environment, Riga Technical University

Environmental and Climate Technologies

Climate change and global warming has become one of the main topics worldwide. The European Union Emission Trading System (EU ETS) was established to limit...

Analysis of Energy Intensive Enterprises under EU Emission Trading System in Latvia

Published Online: Jan 31, 2012

Page range: 125 - 132

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10145-011-0038-7

Keywords
Benchmarks, energy efficiency, energy intensive installations, European Union Emission Trading Scheme, Greenhouse gas emissions

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Analysis of Energy Intensive Enterprises under EU Emission Trading System in Latvia

Published Online: Jan 31, 2012

Page range: 125 - 132

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10145-011-0038-7

KeywordsBenchmarks, energy efficiency, energy intensive installations, European Union Emission Trading Scheme, Greenhouse gas emissions

This content is open access.

Keywords
Benchmarks, energy efficiency, energy intensive installations, European Union Emission Trading Scheme, Greenhouse gas emissions