3. Energy selection criteria
3.1 General issues
Choosing an energy source is not an end in itself.
It is indeed a service or use, such as heating a building or producing domestic hot water, that is ultimately sought, energy being merely a means of ensuring this service or use. In the case of competitive uses (as opposed to captive uses, which can only be supplied by a single energy source, such as electricity for lighting), a third variable comes into play in the decision-making criteria: the equipment that will enable the energy to be used to meet the need to provide the service.
The choice of energy will therefore initially be closely linked to three factors:
the nature of the service for which the energy will be...
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Energy selection criteria
Appendix 1
Global, European and French energy landscape
1. Energy in the world and in the European Union
The global energy landscape is still largely dominated by trends in the price of a barrel of oil, the main overt or implicit source of conflict in the world to secure access to production zones or protect transport and marketing infrastructures (figure
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Bibliography
Websites
Direction Générale de l'Énergie et des Matières Premières at the Ministry of Industry :
http//www.industrie.gouv.fr/energie/sommaire.htm
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change :
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