Renewable energy strategies of the Baltic States

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to analyse renewable energy strategies in the Baltic States, provide assessment of the achieved results when implementing these strategies and propose a new approach in the promotion of renewables and the implementation of renewable energy targets in the Baltic States. In order to implement the renewable energy development strategies, to achieve and surpass the set goals, with continued advances for the renewable energy in the Baltic States, a degree of social awareness, perception and acceptance is required. This paper proposes a new model of renewable energy strategies’ development, which can be considered as an add-on to the existing renewable energy strategy system that includes a social dimension in making and implementing future European Commission’s renewable energy framework for the Baltic States. It is divided into five main stages. Each stage shows approach to the framework and adds aspects of the social perspective. This model can serve as a guide for the Baltic States in the promotion of renewable energy source utilization to overcome the social dimension problems of sustainable energy development, such as uncertainty, misunderstanding of the issue, unawareness of problems arising in the future.