Re-industrialisation and low carbon economy – Can they go together? Results from transdisciplinary scenarios for energy intensive industries
(2014) 2014 ECEEE Industrial Summer Study on Energy Efficiency: Retool for a Competitive and Sustainable Industry 2. p.515-528- Abstract
This paper draws upon an extensive transdisciplinary scenario development in the context of the stakeholder oriented preparation of the climate protection plan of the German federal state North Rhine-Westphalia, which is home to the most important heavy industry cluster in Europe. In that context we developed differentiated bottom up climate change mitigation strategies and scenarios for the major energy intensive industries aluminium, iron and steel, cement, lime, paper and steam cracker for olefin production together with representatives of industry as well as society. We combine rather optimistic assumptions of an 1.2 % annual growth rate of industrial value added until 2050 with three different technological pathways in order to... (More)
This paper draws upon an extensive transdisciplinary scenario development in the context of the stakeholder oriented preparation of the climate protection plan of the German federal state North Rhine-Westphalia, which is home to the most important heavy industry cluster in Europe. In that context we developed differentiated bottom up climate change mitigation strategies and scenarios for the major energy intensive industries aluminium, iron and steel, cement, lime, paper and steam cracker for olefin production together with representatives of industry as well as society. We combine rather optimistic assumptions of an 1.2 % annual growth rate of industrial value added until 2050 with three different technological pathways in order to analyse which technologies would be needed to achieve the Commission’s vision of a re-industrialisation simultaneously with the long term targets of its Low Carbon Economy Roadmap and which role energy efficiency has to play in this context: 1. In the first scenario current best available technologies help increase energy efficiency but are overcompensated by economic growth. 2. In the second scenario break-through technologies for a decarbonisation of industry are assumed, which lead to a fuel shift towards electricity and hydrogen produced by excess renewable electricity. 3. In the third scenario, CO2 capture and storage for steel, cement and lime plants is applied alternatively. This strategy leads to higher energy demand but achieves the highest mitigation levels.
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- author
- Schneider, Clemens ; Höller, Samuel and Lechtenböhmer, Stefan LU
- publishing date
- 2014-01-01
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Best available technologies (BATs), Carbon capture, Hydrogen, Industrial processes, Low carbon targets, Re-industrialisation, Storage, Transdisciplinary scenario development
- host publication
- ECEEE 2014 Industrial Summer Study on Energy Efficiency : Retool for a Competitive and Sustainable Industry - Retool for a Competitive and Sustainable Industry
- volume
- 2
- pages
- 14 pages
- publisher
- European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ECEEE)
- conference name
- 2014 ECEEE Industrial Summer Study on Energy Efficiency: Retool for a Competitive and Sustainable Industry
- conference location
- Arnhem, Netherlands
- conference dates
- 2014-06-02 - 2014-06-05
- external identifiers
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- scopus:84946077240
- ISBN
- 9789198048247
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- no
- id
- 45150111-bfd4-4b17-aea6-aa2fc32b8428
- date added to LUP
- 2018-10-07 10:01:06
- date last changed
- 2022-02-15 05:02:35
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author = {{Schneider, Clemens and Höller, Samuel and Lechtenböhmer, Stefan}},
booktitle = {{ECEEE 2014 Industrial Summer Study on Energy Efficiency : Retool for a Competitive and Sustainable Industry}},
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title = {{Re-industrialisation and low carbon economy – Can they go together? Results from transdisciplinary scenarios for energy intensive industries}},
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