Recent and future trends in (bio)energy
Blas MOLA-YUDEGO, Jakob DONNER-AMNELL, Biljana KULIŠIĆ, Ioannis DIMITRIOU
Summary
The session will present and discuss recent global developments in the energy field, with a focus on renewable energy (incl. bioenergy) and include a short foresight exercise, pondering possible future developments and their effects on (bio)energy. Both these elements are important in the context of this course, because some of the trends in the global energy field have been strong and surprising in recent years, resulting in a clearly different “energy landscape” for the time being. Therefore, it is important to 1) get a firm grip on the trends, 2) analyze why they have come about and what their implications are, 3) ponder and imagine future developments that might change recent trends in another direction.
Tasks
What the reports of the International Energy Agency (IEA) tell about the future trends?
How do the recent trends change/challenge earlier understanding of bio energy developments, markets and policies
Discuss and imagine a few factors that might clearly change the present trends
How could the global energy field look like 2030, if some factors change the present course of events?