The influence of environmental tax rates on the Levelized cost of heat on the example of organic and biofuels boilers in Ukraine
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2021-05
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E3S Web of Conferences
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In December 2019, the European Commission officially presented The European Green Deal, a
new EU economic development program aimed at achieving climate neutrality on the European continent by
2050. Many previous global, European, and national programs also aim to reduce emissions of pollutants into
the atmosphere. In this context, one of the ways to reduce emissions is the development of alternative energy
sources (in particular the wider use of biofuel boilers) and increasing environmental tax rates. When choosing
the optimal heating boilers, the practice of using the levelized cost of heating (LCOH) indicator is common.
Environmental pollution tax (as a component of LCOH) is calculated for the three most common types of
boilers (for Ukrainian boiler houses) with a capacity of 4.65 to 58 MW, burning natural gas, coal, and fuel
oil, as well as low-power boilers burning organic and biofuels, for existing environmental tax rates, for
projected increasing in 4 times (according to the bill) and subject to the introduction of minimum and
maximum rates in EU countries. It is established that at the current environmental tax rates in Ukraine there
are almost no economic incentives for the introduction of technologies to reduce the concentration of
pollutants in emissions, but increasing environmental tax rates may change this situation. This, in turn, once
again suggests that changing environmental tax rates can be an effective tool for achieving sustainable
development goals.
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The influence of environmental tax rates on the Levelized cost of heat on the example of organic and biofuels boilers in Ukraine [Electronic resource] / Valentyna Stanytsina, Volodymyr Artemchuk, Olga Bogoslavska [et al.] // E3S Web of Conferences. – Electronic text data. – 2021. – № 280: ICSF 2021 : second International Conference on Sustainable Futures: Environmental, Technological, Social, and Economic Matters, Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, on May 19–21, 2021 / Kryvyi Rih National University ; [ed. board: S. Chukharev et al.]. – Mode of access: e3s-conferences.org/articles/e3sconf/pdf/2021/56/e3sconf_icsf2021_09012.pdf. – Title from screen.