TY - JOUR
T1 - Testing European goals for the Spanish electricity system using a disaggregated CGE model
AU - Langarita, Raquel
AU - Duarte, Rosa
AU - Hewings, Geoffrey
AU - Sánchez-Chóliz, Julio
N1 - Funding Information:
We are grateful for the partial financing received from the ECO2013-41353-P project of the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, and the Aragonese Government, through a pre-doctoral grant, and through the S40_R17 group and the Social European Fund. Likewise, we would like to mention our belonging to the Agrifood Institute of Aragon (IA2).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2019/7/15
Y1 - 2019/7/15
N2 - This paper addresses the economic and environmental effects of three scenarios of change for the electricity sector in Spain, in line with the European Union targets: (1) to address the low trade with the rest of Europe, increasing the integration with the European network; (2) to enhance environmental sustainability, increasing the use of renewable energy sources, while decreasing the use of brown energy sources; and (3) increasing the competitiveness of the Spanish electricity sector. To this end, we develop a computable general equilibrium model, with 72 productive sectors, eleven of which are energy sectors, where electricity is disaggregated into five production technologies and transmission, distribution, commercialization, and related activities. The model is calibrated on a previously developed input-output table with this detailed disaggregation for Spain for 2013. Our results suggest potential improvements in production and trade, and reductions in CO2 emissions in scenario 2 are also observed.
AB - This paper addresses the economic and environmental effects of three scenarios of change for the electricity sector in Spain, in line with the European Union targets: (1) to address the low trade with the rest of Europe, increasing the integration with the European network; (2) to enhance environmental sustainability, increasing the use of renewable energy sources, while decreasing the use of brown energy sources; and (3) increasing the competitiveness of the Spanish electricity sector. To this end, we develop a computable general equilibrium model, with 72 productive sectors, eleven of which are energy sectors, where electricity is disaggregated into five production technologies and transmission, distribution, commercialization, and related activities. The model is calibrated on a previously developed input-output table with this detailed disaggregation for Spain for 2013. Our results suggest potential improvements in production and trade, and reductions in CO2 emissions in scenario 2 are also observed.
KW - Computable general equilibrium models
KW - Electricity
KW - Policy changes
KW - Spain
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U2 - 10.1016/j.energy.2019.04.175
DO - 10.1016/j.energy.2019.04.175
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85066444367
SN - 0360-5442
VL - 179
SP - 1288
EP - 1301
JO - Energy
JF - Energy
ER -