<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Nowadays government policies to mitigate climate change are of a wide variety and they are evaluated before and after implementation. Much research has been conducted on how climate change policy will affect the climate. However, there is very little research on policies that are not intended to mitigate or reduce climate change and which, from the policy makers’ point of view, have no relation to climate change. The goal of this study is to review the electricity policy in Latvia and the aspects that can be evaluated under this policy, and apply multiple-criteria analysis to determine on what spheres the electricity policy leaves the most positive impact – is it climate or are they consumers and other electricity market players? The outcome of the analysis shows that, at the national level, the most positive impact on climate is provided by the National Energy and Climate Plan, indicating that climate is taken into consideration mostly only under complex multi-sectoral legislation.</p></abstract>

Nowadays government policies to mitigate climate change are of a wide variety and they are evaluated before and after implementation. Much research has been conducted on how climate change policy will affect the climate. However, there is very little research on policies that are not intended to mitigate or reduce climate change and which, from the policy makers’ point of view, have no relation to climate change. The goal of this study is to review the electricity policy in Latvia and the aspects that can be evaluated under this policy, and apply multiple-criteria analysis to determine on what spheres the electricity policy leaves the most positive impact – is it climate or are they consumers and other electricity market players? The outcome of the analysis shows that, at the national level, the most positive impact on climate is provided by the National Energy and Climate Plan, indicating that climate is taken into consideration mostly only under complex multi-sectoral legislation.

Methods to Evaluate Electricity Policy from Climate Perspective

Institute of Energy Systems and Environment

Environmental and Climate Technologies

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Nowadays government policies to mitigate climate change are of a wide variety and they are evaluated before and after implementation. Much research has been...

Methods to Evaluate Electricity Policy from Climate Perspective

Data publikacji: 18 lis 2019

Zakres stron: 131 - 147

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rtuect-2019-0060

Słowa kluczowe
Climate change, electricity policy, multi-criteria analysis

© 2019 Liga Rozentale et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Methods to Evaluate Electricity Policy from Climate Perspective

Data publikacji: 18 lis 2019

Zakres stron: 131 - 147

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rtuect-2019-0060

Słowa kluczoweClimate change, electricity policy, multi-criteria analysis

© 2019 Liga Rozentale et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Słowa kluczowe
Climate change, electricity policy, multi-criteria analysis