Energy development is facing major challenges: transition to the low carbon society, enabling competitiveness despite growth of international energy prices, assuring energy security by sovereign and interconnected energy systems and building capacities to deal with changing global circumstances. Impact assessment to support decisions process for National energy programme comprises different energy strategies options and expected responses of actors. Scenarios are compared considering main energy policy objectives: (1) environmental sustainability, (2) energy security and (3) improvement of competitiveness of the society and economy, with indicators supporting trade-off analysis. The paper presents procedure and results of the analysis: a comparative assessment of scenarios with an emphasis on climate-energy package targets, reliability and security of supply indicators, particularly indicators related to the power sector, and the effects on the competitiveness of the Slovenian economy. In the national energy program (NEP), an intensive strategy of promoting sustainable and local services (RUE, RES, CHP and local energy) was selected and proposed. The priorities of this strategy, compared to other analyzed reference strategies are: lower emissions and greater robustness to meet the objectives of the climate-energy package – particularly the 25-percent share of renewables in gross final energy consumption - and in the Kyoto Protocol, less energy consumption and slower growth of electricity consumption, a higher share of RES in 2030, lower net imports and lower energy dependency, greater improvement of energy intensity, better (improved) all other indicators of energy security, greater the reduction of GHG emissions relative to a reference scenario. Weaknesses of the intensive strategy are slightly higher emissions of nitrogen oxides and particulate matter, due to greater use of wood biomass. Intensive strategy represents also a better development basis for long-term transition to low carbon society.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 25042983According to the Directive 2006/32/EC, a Member State has to determine the energy savings achieved by measures to increase energy efficiency or the National Action Plan for Energy Efficiency (2008-2016). To calculate the energy savings, the top-down (TD) and the bottom-up (BU) concepts can be used. A set of required methods for both TD and BU concepts have been developed for calculation of energy savings. A set of necessary factors / parameters and type of data have been defined to calculate the savings for each method by each sector / technology.
F.10 Improvements to an existing technological process or technology
COBISS.SI-ID: 24384295Green paper (GP) is a background document for supporting for the new National energy program for Slovenia (NEP). The purpose of the GP is to answer strategic questions about the development of energy sector in Slovenia till 2030. Preparation of a new NEP is necessary because a series of new conditions in the global climate require rethinking the development of energy activities and services. GP discusses the vision of energy development: policies, competition, reliability, environment, energy efficiency, development of local energy, energy market, tax and pricing policies, and financing.
F.24 Improvements to existing system-wide, normative and programme solutions, and methods
COBISS.SI-ID: 23085863The special issue of Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research contains the Proceedings of the Fifth International k0 – Users Workshop, held in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. It was the first time that the workshop was held outside Europe. This was an excellent opportunity for boosting additional momentum to ever-growing interest in the current possibilities and actual potential of k0 – neutron activation analysis. Even 18 out of total 43 participants were from Brazil and altogether 24 papers are published in the special issue that previously passed usual peer-review process.
C.03 Guest-associated editor
COBISS.SI-ID: 24146215Paper presents aspects of different visualizations in Full Mission Simulators constructed on three dimensional and two dimensional projections. Main problem with commercially available simulators is presentation reality i.e. true world compliance on the screen. Many researchers have proved that more realistic world is not always best result at synthetic display. Presented simulated worlds were detailed investigated in the field of speed of 3D world generation, realistic level, possibility of interference with other visualizations and possible human fatigue due to long synthetic display interaction.
B.04 Guest lecture
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