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- Palm, Jenny, 1973-
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Electricity security and contingency planning in hierarchy and network - examples from Sweden
- 2009
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Ingår i: Energy Policy: Economic Effects, Security Aspects and Environmental Issues. - New York : Nova Science Publisher. - 9781606928943 ; , s. 225-238
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Bokkapitel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- This article discusses the emergency management strategies of municipal authorities for securing the electricity supply, according to a networked, or “governance”, control and direction structure, and how this influences the relationship between electricity companies and Swedish municipalities. The article also discusses the role how the households during outages, how they perceive their responsibility during an outage, but also how municipalities and grid companies understand the households’ responsibility. Since electricity market deregulation, the responsibility for electricity supply security has become unclear; field studies of Swedish municipalities indicate that all actors still seem to be seeking to find their proper roles in the deregulated market. Municipalities still expect to exercise influence over private energy company decisions regarding prioritization of emergency power deliveries. Energy companies vacillate between emphasizing their need to regard economic factors and their sense of responsibility for providing a secure electricity supply to vital municipal functions (even though municipalities may lack contracts specifying this). The households’ responsibility for being prepared for an outage was fuzzy for the actors. Both municipalities and grid companies expected the customers to have some preparedness. The household meant that they lacked any responsibility to be prepared for an outage even if they need to be prepared to survive.
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- Thollander, Patrik, 1976-
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Energy policies for Swedish non-energy-intensive and small- and medium-sized manufacturing industries
- 2011
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Ingår i: Energy Policy: Economic Effects, Security Aspects and Environmental Issues. - : Nova Science Publishers, Inc.. - 9781606928943
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Since the early 1990s, industrial energy end-use policy activity in Sweden has beenscarce, in particular towards small- and medium-sized industrial enterprises (SMEs) andnon-energy-intensive manufacturers. While the other Nordic states have takenconsiderable actions towards the industrial sector, Sweden has not. Rising electricityprices in Sweden and the Energy End-use Efficiency and Energy Services Directive(ESD), among other things, address the need for the Swedish authorities to design andadopt energy policies towards the non-energy-intensive and SME industrial sectors. Thischapter aims to explore this by discussing plausible policy solutions, based on currentresearch on barriers to energy efficiency and industrial energy programs. Initially, resultsfrom the three available Swedish studies on barriers to energy efficiency for these sectorsare outlined. Then, a few examples of successful and less successful actions towards theindustry and in particular SMEs are presented and finally, a discussion is held regardingplausible energy end-use polices, based on the presented research. In conclusion, a highlyuseful approach towards non-energy-intensive manufacturers and SMEs in particular is toprovide energy audits free of charge and involve the local authority energy consultants.
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