Executive Summary -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Tackling the Energy Problem -- 1.2 The Current European Energy Demand and Supply -- 1.3 Environmental Impacts of the Current Energy Use -- 2 Scenario for a Sustainable Future Energy System -- 2.1 Technical Description -- 2.2 Economic and Environmental Impacts -- 3 A Fair-Market Scenario for the European Energy System -- 3.1 Technical Description -- 3.2 Economic and Environmental Impacts Sigurd Weinreich -- 4 Bottlenecks and Obstacles - Success Stories and Measures -- 4.1 Bottlenecks and Obstacles -- 4.2 The Success Story of Wind Energy in Denmark, Germany and Wales -- 4.3 Measures to Overcome the Most Important Obstacles and Bottlenecks -- 5 Appendix I: Bottlenecks and Obstacles - Elements of a Methodology for National Diagnosis -- 5.1 General Typology for a Study on Bottlenecks -- 5.2 Identifying Bottlenecks According to Categories of NRE Projects -- 5.3 Reducing Distortions of an Institutional Nature Unfavourable to NRE -- 5.4 Beyond the Reform of Incentive Systems - Organising the Co-ordination of Actors in Europe -- 5.5 Conclusions -- 6 Appendix II: Additional Data and Figures -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- References.

A sustainable European energy system, mitigating climate change and solving a number of other key environmental problems, will require massive reliance on renewable energy sources combined with a sharp increase in energy productivity. Considering that most of the technoplogies necessary for such a development are already available, today's most important questions are: How can these technologies be integrated into the European energy system? What are the costs and benefits of such a strategy? What are the major bottlenecks and obstacles to such a development? What measures are necessary to support this development? In the book a "sustainable scenario" and a "fair-market scenario" are developed as a means to demonstrate that concepts for a sustainable future Eutopean energy supply are technically and economically feasible. In addition, they provide a positive vision for decisions to be made in the near furture.