CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2017
| Author | Vágvölgyi, Szabolcs |
|---|---|
| Title | Correlates of decreasing domestic coal production and use in electricity generation |
| Summary | To reach the goals put forward in the Paris Climate Agreement, much of the already discovered coal resources will need to stay in the ground. Despite this need to decarbonise the global economy, coal production and use in electricity generation has been increasing at the global level, but there are a number of countries that managed to reduce domestic coal production and use in electricity generation. The thesis used data from the International Energy Agency on the energy balances of those 100 countries in 1974-2014 that produced electricity in the greatest absolute quantities in 2014 to find out about correlates that are associated with decreasing domestic coal production and coal use in electricity generation. By using Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient the research established that there is a significant negative correlation between domestic coal production and imports of natural gas and coal, however, there is not a significant correlation between domestic coal production and the amount of natural gas domestically produced and the share of brown coal in the overall coal production of the country. With regards to coal fired electricity generation, the research found that a decrease in domestic coal production is a necessary condition for coal use to decrease in electricity production, however, nuclear power and other fossil fuel output in the national electricity generation portfolio do not covary with coal use in the sector. Based on the results, for emissions from coal to peak and decrease, international policy should focus on the coal mining practices of countries. |
| Supervisor | Cherp, Aleh |
| Department | Environment Sciences and Policy MSc |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2017/vagvolgyi_szabolcs.pdf |
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