Power Sector Decarbonisation: Metastudy

This paper presents a qualitative and a quantitative analysis on relevant EU member state studies focussing on future pathways of decarbonisation. The selected studies are: Germany: Blueprint Germany (WWF, 2009a), Germany: Pathways Towards a 100% Renewable Electricity System (SRU, 2011), UK: 2050 Pathways Analysis (DECC, 2010), Sweden: Swedish long-term low carbon scenario (Jenny Gode, Särnholm, L., Zetterberg, Arnell, & T. Zetterberg, 2010.

These three studies have been chosen due to their general importance in the discourse on the topic. The qualitative analysis of these studies covers the following areas of interest:

general background information, thematic background, methodology, scenarios / pathways presented, infrastructural changes within the power system, discussion and recommendation of relevant policies, brief quantitative overview. For ease of reference the structure of the qualitative summaries follow the same lines as the summaries in WP 2.1.

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