The Kyoto Convention, EU draft directive on promoting renewable energy and Italy's regulatory actions to enhance renewable energy production
Article from: OGEL 3 (2003), in Renewable Energy
Summary
Italy's poor supply of indigenous fossil fuels drives its continuous search for new energy sources. As a result in part of the major EU initiative to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (the Kyoto Protocol) and the related EU Directive (2001/77/CE), the focus recently has been on renewable sources, which include biomass, hydroelectric, wind, geothermal, solar and waste. Notwithstanding that energy produced by renewable sources still costs more than energy produced by traditional sources, in Italy we will see an increase in production of energy from renewable sources. The ...