The European Energy Transition : Actors, Factors, Sectors

Front Cover -- Half Title -- Copyright -- Table Of Contents -- Chapter 1: Foreword by Jacques Delors, Founding President of the Jacques Delors Institute -- Chapter 2: 42 Authors exploring Europe's Energy Transition:About this Book-Susanne Nies -- PART 1 - SETTING THE SCENE: CLIMATE, SECURITY OF SUPPLY AND COMPETITIVENESS - INSEPARABLE -- Chapter3: EU Climate Policy as a Driver of Change-Jos Delbeke & Peter Vis -- 1. Introduction -- 2. International process -- 3. EU policy response -- 4. Carbon pricing and the EU's Emissions Trading System -- 5. Conclusion -- Chapter 4: Security of Supply: a new Focus on Electricity-Susanne Nies -- 1. Risks are changing -- 2. Security of supply and the scope of risks Europe is exposed to -- 3. The EU institutional and regulatory set up for energy security -- 4. Oil -- 5. Gas: from golden age of gas to bronze and back to gold again? -- 5.1 Import Dependency gas: the status quo -- 5.2 The role of LNG for security of supply -- 5.3 Europe's regulatory response to import dependency on gas -- 6. Power: changing electricity paradigm and new risks -- 6.1 Europe's meandering electricity geography -- 6.2 European blackouts and challenges since 2003 -- 6.3 Nuclear risks -- 6.4 Traditional risks related to third countries -- 7. Always a winning bet: the first fuel energy efficiency -- 7.1 Managing risks in a system with variable Renewables -- 7.2 New climate risks -- 7.3 New risks: Cybersecurity, power electronics and sector coupling -- 7.4 Regulatory response to security of electricity supply risks -- 7.5 Recommendations for the incoming EC and EP -- Chapter 5: The Distributional Effects of Climate Policies-Gustav Fredriksson & Georg Zachmann -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Assessing the distributional impact of policies -- 2.1 Income side -- 2.2 Expenditure side -- 2.3 Government side -- 2.4 Summary.