Where AD plants wildly grow: The spatio-temporal diffusion of agricultural biogas production in the Czech Republic
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68145535%3A_____%2F16%3A00461209" target="_blank" >RIV/68145535:_____/16:00461209 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/60076658:12220/16:43890462
Result on the web
<a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960148116302610" target="_blank" >http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960148116302610</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2016.03.077" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.renene.2016.03.077</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Where AD plants wildly grow: The spatio-temporal diffusion of agricultural biogas production in the Czech Republic
Original language description
There is fundamental agreement about the environmental benefits of renewable energy technologies, but unintended consequences arising from their deployment are frequent sources of conflicts. The Czech Republic has committed itself to supply 13.5% of its electricity consumption from renewable sources by 2020. High state incentives for renewable energies have been provided to achieve this target, however critical questions can be asked about the appropriateness of the design of the supporting frameworkswhich caused a boom in photo-voltaic (PV) installations on agricultural land, as well as a boom in the installation of agricultural anaerobic digestion (AD) plants fuelled by dedicated energy crops. This paper analyses the diffusion of agricultural AD plants in the Czech Republic, focusing especially on locational characteristics in relation to the quality of agricultural land, agricultural and population census data. Statistical analysis of those spatial atasets show that agricultural AD plants are mostly located in less favourable agricultural areas, in regions having recently experienced a reduction in cattle breeding, and in regions with significant increases of sowing areas of green maize. These findings suggests shortcomings in the supporting policy for AD plants in the Czech Republic, resulting in unintended environmental consequences, and missed opportunities to enhance energy self-sufficiency and resilience in the countryside.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
DE - Earth magnetism, geodesy, geography
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2016
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Renewable Energy
ISSN
0960-1481
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
95
Issue of the periodical within the volume
September 2016
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
13
Pages from-to
85-97
UT code for WoS article
000377311000009
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-84962463466