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Project description: History
The foundation of the ARTEMIS project was essentially laid
down in 1999, when Reinhard Madlener and Sigrid Stagl decided
to join forces and to develop a participatory multi-criteria
evaluation method that allows for the development of renewable
energy promotion policy instruments (e.g. feed-in tariffs,
tradable green certificates, bidding schemes) that explicitly
take into account social, environmental, and economic sustainability
criteria.
In the late 1990s, in the face of the ongoing European electricity
market liberalisation and the preparation of an EU Directive
on Renewables, interest was strongly rising in tradable green
certificates (TGCs) for the promotion of electricity generation
from renewable energy sources. TGCs were seen by many as an
ideal policy instrument that is, on the one hand, compatible
with the requirements of a liberalised market environment
(e.g. avoidance of market distortions through guaranteed prices)
and, on the other hand, that fosters economic efficiency.
This endeavour led to the publication of several articles
(see also the section “Docs”), some of which were
presented at international conferences (e.g. the ISEE 2000
in Vienna, the IEWT 2001 in Vienna) and were received by the
audience with great interest. Currently, an article is in
the final revision process that has been accepted for publication
by Ecological Economics back in 2002, and that provides a
summary on the basic features and elements of the developed
method (without empirical part).
In 2002, the opportunity came up to submit a project proposal
to the Science Foundations of Austria (FWF), Germany (DFB),
Switzerland (SNF), and the United Kingdom (ESRC). The proposal
evaluation procedure was coordinated by the European Science
Foundation (ESF). The project consortium consisted of ETH
Zurich (Centre for Energy Policy and Economics – CEPE;
project coordination), University of Leeds (School of the
Environment), University of Karlsruhe (French-German Institute
for Environmental Research – DFIU/IFARE), and the Sustainable
Europe Research Institute (SERI) in Vienna. While the Austrian
Science Foundation was prepared to fund the project right
away, the decision in Germany was unfortunately dragged along,
and in the U.K. funding would have been granted only on the
condition that another institution accepted the proposal (which
did not happen on time). Thus the project had to be downsized
and launched with Austrian funding only, with SERI as the
main contractor, and a scope that is restricted to the situation
in Austria only.
There are plans to continue and considerably extend the ARTEMIS
project after 2006. This will enable the participation of
other research teams active in this field and a further intensification
and refinement of the method developed. It will also allow
for a widening of the geographical coverage (and thus cross-country
comparisons) and thus the insights that can be gained from
this kind of research.
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Aim
The project aims at the use of existing and the development of new tools for the participatory exploration of scenarios concerning their potential to contribute to sustainable development.
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Scope
For a more sustainable development the increased substitution of modern renewable for conventional non-renewable (fossil, nuclear) energy technologies has to play a paramount role.
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Expected Results
The expected main results of the project are:
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Goals
With this project we want to contribute to
the development of government, business and civil
society strategies for a more sustainable energy
supply, through a better understanding of the
environmental, economic, social and institutional
implications of energy production.
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