ECONOMIC POLICIES ENCOURAGING THE DEVELOPMENT AND DIFFUSION OF ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY SUSTAINABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES

摘要

The content of the paper presents the survey of policies and methods of overcoming the financial barriers limiting implementation of environmentally friendly technologies. Implementation of EU Directives concerning renewable energy sources (RES) and energy efficiency, financial policy promoting RES implemetation in Lithuania, inovatives mechanisms of RES financing has been shortly presented. Different ways of integration of energy projects into regional development process in Austria, UK and Netherlands has been provided .Elaborated plan of waste utilisation in Lithuanian stockbreeding sector by using environmentally friendly energy technologies in frame of EIE project SEIPLED (Sustainable energy investments promoting local economic development) will be presented in order to demonstrate how may be overcomed three intermittent RES market barriers: negative pollution effect which may be internalised in the utilisation of waste by producing biogas and small or medium size CHP, which positive social effect of pollution prevention may be internalised by incomes from utilising waste and support from Structural funds. Third and maybe most essential measure is promotion and diffusion of RES as environmental friendly technologies in frame of regional/local sustainable development programmes.