Evaluating the Impact of Energy Policies and Energy Economics: Trends, Risks and Challenges
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "C: Energy Economics and Policy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 November 2025 | Viewed by 19
Special Issue Editors
Interests: digital economy; wellbeing economics; global economics and cross-cultural management; comparative studies; energy policies and energy economics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The Green Deal is an international agenda to decarbonize and to move on clean energy transition based on the SDG-NN.UU and the Paris Agreement, with regional expressions like the US Green Deal (executive orders by the Biden Administration in 2019), the UK Green New Deal (UK Parliament in 2021) or the EU Green Deal (European Commission in 2019). The EU Green Deal is still running into the multi-annual budget period, 2021-27, with more than EUR 20 billion expended until now. The Green Deal has a complex framework (with legal, political and economic instruments), which includes a set of targets for 2030: (a) at least 40% cuts in greenhouse gas emissions (on the basis of 1990 levels); (b) at least a 32% share of renewable energy; and (c) at least a 32.5% improvement in energy efficiency. The goals related with energy are as follows: to drive progress towards a low-carbon economy and build an energy system that ensures affordable energy for all consumers; to increase the security of the EU’s energy supplies; to reduce the EU dependence on energy imports; to create new opportunities for growth and jobs; and to bring environmental and health benefits (i.e., through reduced air pollution). The EU Green Deal’s success needs the support of national long-term strategies of the member states (NEPCPs), with coordination and convergence actions. However, the Green Deal has some unwanted second-round effects: the cobra effect, energy shortages and rising prices, greenflation, etc. Also, there are some heterodox critics, because it is an expression of the central coactive planning initiative. This Special Issue intends to offer a place for discussion to improve current governmental policies.
This Special Issue aims to bring together works that explain the EU Green Deal and its impact in energy transition and management, with special attention to the second round effects and how to fix them. This call for papers includes original research articles, comprehensive reviews, and well-documented case studies.
The following topics will be addressed:
- Green Deal policies.
- Clean energy transition.
- Green Deal management and second round effects.
- Measures adopted for the energy transition.
- The reduction of polluting energies.
- Stimulus of green energies and their efficiency.
- The energy markets, negotiation and conflict-resolution methods.
- The improvement of renewable energy (green and blue energies).
- Convergence actions for energy transition between EU and member states.
- Governance, legislation, and economic policy for green energy production.
- Public policies and taxation in the energy sector.
- Digital economy and energy issues in the EU.
- Wellbeing economics and energy issues in the EU.
- Guidelines and legal-policy instruments in the energy sector and public policies.
- Mainstream and heterodox approaches.
- Other related topics (please ask the editors prior to submitting a paper on a different topic).
Dr. Antonio Sánchez-Bayón
Prof. Dr. Frank Daumann
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- energy transition
- green deal
- clean energies
- renewable energies
- green energies
- blue energies
- climate-neutral energies
- reduction of polluting energies
- wellbeing economics and energy
- energy efficiency
- energy markets
- sustainable development goals
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