Dinamic targets for the European Union biofuel goal for 2020

• Published in: 2011 International Conference on Electrical and Control Engineering pp. 3426 - 3429
• Main Authors: Tolon-Becerra, Alfredo, Bolivar Lastra-Bravo, Xavier, Bienvenido-Barcena, Jose Fernando
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01-09-2011
• Subjects: Biofuels; Biomass; Economic indicators; EU energy policy; Europe; Sustainable development; territorial targets
• ISBN: 9781424481620; 1424481627
• DOI: 10.1109/ICECENG.2011.6058489

One of the European Union main goals of its energy policy is a 10% share of biofuels in fuel consumed for transport (petrol and diesel) in the year 2020. But the effort associated to this global target is not distributed among the member states (MS). Therefore, this study proposes a non-linear distribution method with dynamic objective targets for increasing the share of biofuels according to the particular characteristics of every MS (share of non-biofuels in fuel consumed for transport, non biofuels per capita and non-biofuels per GDP). The results were analyzed on three scenarios: the whole European Union (27 MS), the European Union 15 (the most industrialized ones) and the European Union 12 (those that joined the EU after 2004), with the objective of identifying differences in behavior between the different blocks inside the European Union.