Open AccessPROMOTION OF USE OF RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES IN LITHUANIA
Author(s) -
Dalia Štreimikienė,
Rimantas Pareigis
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
technological and economic development of economy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.634
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 2029-4921
pISSN - 2029-4913
DOI - 10.3846/13928619.2007.9637792
Subject(s) - renewable energy , lithuanian , promotion (chess) , business , feed in tariff , environmental economics , energy policy , natural resource economics , economics , political science , engineering , philosophy , linguistics , politics , law , electrical engineering
The article describes market barriers and failures that limit the use of renewables and stipulates the necessity of support them. It reviews the situation of renewable energy in Lithuania and evaluates the potential of their future application. It also presents the systematised detailed overview of policy measures to support use of renewable energy sources in Lithuania and a comparison with policy measures applied to enhance usage of renewable energy sources in the Baltic States. The main targets of the article are: to analyse the situation of renewable energy use in Lithuania and Lithuanian commitments in this field; to evaluate legal issues of promotion renewable energy sources in the EU and Lithuania.