Environmental pollution, climate warming and other issues have become global issues, and the use of renewable energy as the best way to solve the problem has gradually attracted the attention of all countries. Uncertainty has an important effect on the production of renewable energy. Through a two-stage model, this paper compares the effects of feed-in tariff (FIT) and renewable portfolio standard

Wind energy is one of the leading forms of non-hydro renewable energy sources in the world. Russia ranks among the top countries with vast wind energy resources and among the top CO2 producers as well. Simultaneously, the utilization of wind energy is extremely low compared to other CO2 emitting states. This paper aims to describe the ongoing situation for wind energy development according to the most

The scant supply of energy in Nigeria in relation to its energy demand has triggered interest in the scientific investigation of various energy research. This study reports on the bibliometric analysis of energy publications from Nigerian researchers from 1974 to 2019 (45 years) from the Elsevier Scopus database. The analysis includes publication types, languages of publication, institutions of authors

Secure and reliable operation of power systems with high wind and solar shares requires system flexibility. In this paper, an hourly-based market and grid simulation model is developed to assess security and reliability of a power system with high wind and solar energy share. The model is applied to Turkey as an emerging G20 country that aims to supply its rapidly growing electricity demand from local

Energy is the basis for development of material civilization. Since fossil energy can cause environmental problems, clean energy has become the trend of energy development. Solar energy is a kind of resource-rich and clean energy. Therefore, it exists great prospects of development. In addition, the cost of photovoltaic power generation is relatively high, and governmental subsidies are required. In

The decoupling between economic growth and energy consumption in China is a major concern for academics and policy-makers owing to China's large economy, tremendous energy consumption, and the fast growth of both, but less to be discussed at the sectoral level. This paper takes advantage of the input-output tables to take an insight into the complete energy consumption of sectors, including both direct

Electric vehicles (EVs) are expected to provide substantial potential for demand response (DR) and, thus, the integration of renewable electricity sources in the future energy system. However, DR can also have noticeable negative consequences, so-called avalanche effects. We systematically assess under which circumstances avalanche effects occur and what impact they have on the electricity system and

Decentralized systems seeking to balance electricity supply and demand regionally are increasingly being discussed. Regional flexibility concepts, however, require spatially and temporally highly resolved knowledge. To provide this, we investigate the 2030 demand, supply, and demand-side flexibility for the German NUTS-3 regions. We (1) model the hourly regional electricity demand and supply, (2) cluster

In light of a national policy aiming at satisfying a growing demand for electricity, while achieving a greater diversification of power generation technologies and full electrification by 2050, this research models and contrasts alternative electrification pathways for Tanzania in the time frame 2015–2040. The study relies on an improved model grounded on the OSeMOSYS framework. GIS data are used both

Mexico's current climate change policy sets the country on a development pathway which is inconsistent with the goals of the Paris Agreement. The Deep Decarbonization methodology has been used to develop an alternative whole-economy pathway to 2050 consistent with limiting warming to between 1.5 and 2°C above pre-industrial times, covering energy and non-energy sectors and achieving comparable population

Biogas upgrading to biomethane is a feasible option for greening the European energy sector, and specifically transport. Bio-CNG and bio-LNG fuels are considered a valid solutions for freight, and the European biomethane sector displays an interesting production potential, supported by a growing demand. A key asset for sector deployment is represented by an appropriate refuelling infrastructure. To

Given that the integration of renewable energy generation systems may have the potential to satisfy the electrical requirements of remote areas, this paper consists of a feasibility study with the focus on integrating renewable generation into the energy system of Popova Island. It adopts an analytical approach that consists in applying the Monte Carlo method, an energy systems model, and then evaluating

Participation of nondispatchable renewable energy resources (RER) such as wind turbines (WT) and photovoltaic (PV) systems is one of the main challenges of these clean energy resources. Due to the uncertain nature of these resources, predictions of their amount of power in the day-ahead market is very difficult and associated with error. This paper introduces a novel model for the participation of

Germany strives to reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by at least 80% by 2050 compared to 1990 levels. In the underlying roadmap (Climate Action Plan 2050), natural gas is declared to be a bridge energy carrier into a carbon neutral era. But, since the roadmap only describes guiding principles and abstract transition paths, the concrete role of natural gas remains unclear. By analyzing 36 scenarios

Energy system models are increasingly being used to explore scenarios with large shares of variable renewables. This requires input data of high spatial and temporal resolution and places a considerable preprocessing burden on the modeling team. Here we present a new code set with an open source license for automatic generation of input data for large-scale energy system models for arbitrary regions

Although policy support for emerging industries has become an important choice for the world's major economies, the deviation between policy objectives and the status quo of industrial development indicates that it is remains necessary to conduct a comprehensive analysis of industrial policies. The marginal contribution of this paper is as follows:Based on the financial subsidy policy of China's new

Emission free compressed air powered energy system can be used as the main power source or as an auxiliary power unit in vehicular transportation with advantages of zero carbon emissions and improved the overall energy efficiency of the integrated energy system. This work presented a detailed technological development of compressed-air energy systems. The studies on compressed-air powered powertrain

Solar energy is the Earth's primary source of energy and the most widely available source of renewable energy. Its use in cooking is just one of its numerous applications and benefits. By concentrating solar energy into a small area, a solar cooker is capable of generating sufficient heat to cook, pasteurise and sterilise food items. This paper aims to identify factors affecting solar cooker 1) manufacturing

China offers the Global Energy Interconnections (GEI) as a planetary project to deliver sustainable development and climate action through large-scale energy transition by interconnecting most of the world's grids. What does this mean for Southeast Asian countries' regional quest for greater energy connectivity? While the envisaged China-Southeast Asia interconnections promise a durable regional energy

In this research, the authors try to find solutions for Russian and Chinese gas companies' sustainable growth. With the help of Lasso regression, linear regression and forecasting model, the authors define financial and non-financial indicators influence the Chinese and Russian gas companies' sustainable growth rate. Results indicate that the most influential nonfinancial factors for the Russian gas

Geospatial potential for harvesting wind energy is not an easy task to perform in conditions of deficiency of accurate data in remote and large areas (macro to medium locations). There are different methodologies available to identify the most suitable location for the installation of wind power generators. One of the most suitable approaches that employ the Multi-Criteria Analysis method for wind

Most studies that examine CO2-neutral, or near CO2-neutral, power systems by using energy system models investigate Europe or the United States, while similar studies for other regions are rare. In this paper, we focus on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), where weather conditions, especially for solar, differ substantially from those in Europe. We use a green-field linear capacity expansion

Deep decarbonization of the global electricity sector is required to meet ambitious climate change targets. This underlines the need for improved models to facilitate an understanding of the global challenges ahead, particularly on the concept of large-scale interconnection of power systems. Developments in recent years regarding availability of open data as well as improvements in hardware and software

The innovation network is the frontier of economic geography, although the drivers and the underlying mechanism of the evolution of this innovation network are not clear. This study employs the Exponential Random Graph Model (ERGM) and Stochastic Actor-Oriented Model (SAOM) to analyse the evolution of the drivers and the formation of the innovation network in China's photovoltaic industry, as a case

Market players in the energy sector transition are heterogeneous, have bounded rationality and are influenced by their own past failures, as well as imitating the successes of their competitors. However this agent heterogeneity and complex behaviour in investment choices is not taken into account in traditional energy-economy models used to inform energy sector policies. By using BRAIN-Energy, an agent-based

Use of low-temperature heat sources in district heating (DH) systems is gaining attention as a climate mitigation measure. Urban excess heat (UEH) from data centres, metro stations, sewage systems and service sector buildings’ cooling system belongs to these sources. The use of UEH affects energy supply systems and system costs. We analyse the long-term system impacts of utilizing the four UEH sources

Energy-economic models are used to provide science-based decision support in many contexts; evaluating scenarios generated by these models is critical for establishing the credibility of the analyses these tools support. We propose a framework for evaluating energy system scenarios consisting of three parts – a qualitative storyline, quantitative metrics, and evaluation criteria. We apply this framework

To accommodate the rapidly increasing amount of municipal solid waste (MSW) sustainably and effectively, public-private partnership (PPP) waste-to-energy (WTE) incineration has achieved rapid growth in China. This study provides an insight into current practice and identifies key opportunities and major challenges in the further development of PPP implemented in China's WTE incineration industry. The

Electric power consumption in KWh Per capita is a key factor in determining the progress of technological growth and the socio-economic development of any country. Bangladesh is a lower middle-income country, and its population density is around 1118 per square kilometer. The vision of the country is to become a high-income nation by the year 2041. Governed by this vision, the net electricity demand

To deal with climate change, most countries in the world have already set their own emission reduction targets and developed subsidy schemes to promote the production of renewable electricity (RE). In REN 21's Renewables 2019 Global Status Report, mainly three types of dominant RE promotion schemes are identified: feed-in policies, renewable portfolio standard (RPS)/quota policies, and tendering. Based

Innovation systems operate in specific regional, political, social and economic contexts and are influenced by their environment. The internal structures and processes of a technological innovation system (TIS) are usually well understood in the literature, but what is happening outside and across the boundaries of the system is less systematically considered. This paper tries to fill this gap by combining

Explorative energy scenarios do not present the most probable developments but provide a set of plausible pathways in order to highlight the uncertainty and complexity of decision-making contexts. Although plausibility is widely assumed as effectiveness criterion for scenario work, little is known about how the plausibility of a set of scenarios is perceived by users. This paper discusses conceptions

Despite the rapid growth in wind power generation, China has suffered a serious curtailment in wind power in several areas, especially in Xinjiang, Gansu, and Inner Mongolia. Policy instruments and the industrial chain are evaluated and the curtailed wind power accommodation policies in China, India, the United States, and Germany are compared considering the aforementioned curtailment and the lack

Today's decision-makers rely heavily on Integrated Assessment Models to guide the decarbonisation of the energy system. Uncertainty is embedded in the assumptions these models are built upon. Unless those uncertainties are adequately assessed, using Integrated Assessment Models for policy design is unadvised. In this work we run Monte Carlo simulations with the MEDEAS model at European Union scale

Some countries with large renewables markets have sought to create domestic supply chains and jobs by implementing local-content requirements. We focus on three key renewables markets with local-content requirements – Brazil, India and South Africa – and analyze whether these rules have helped create local manufacturing capacity or benefited local companies. We find that companies in all three countries

Climate change is a key global issue. The continuous increase in greenhouse gas emissions, such as carbon dioxide (CO2), from non-renewable energy sources, is the primary driver of climate change. This study sheds light on this issue by examining the historical CO2 emissions of Bangladesh's electricity sector from 1979 to 2018. This study applies the logarithmic mean divisia index (LMDI) method to

This paper focuses on the techno-economic feasibility and sustainability of a PV/wind/diesel hybrid system designed for decentralized power supply. Several designs have been studied for the hybrid system by varying the PV slope and wind turbine hub height under different dispatch strategies to supply the load. For each design, the power system has been optimized to determine the maximum electrical

FDI not only increases capital supply in the host country, but can also improve the productivity of domestic firms through knowledge transfer. Dutch diseases and technology spillover can be some of the important effects of FDI in the oil and gas (OIG) sector. The Dutch disease refers to the problems associated with negative consequences of large increases in a country's raw materials such as oil and

Compliance with the Paris Agreement requires the transformation of national economies to meet net-zero carbon dioxide emissions by mid-century. To accomplish this, countries need to define long-term decarbonisation strategies with near- and mid-term actions to determine their ideal future scenario while maximizing socioeconomic benefits. This paper describes the process followed to support the creation

Using the extended STIRPAT model, this research examines the influence of various factors on US carbon emission from 1960 to 2019, including nuclear and alternative energy of total, fossil energy of total, GDP per capita, total population, urban population of total and merchandise trade of GDP. Ridge regression was used to perform the study. The research results show the significant of all factors

Currently, Indonesia has only three nuclear research reactors. However, Indonesia is the world's fourth most populous country. Owing to the enormous size and rapid growth of the population and the limited availability of fossil fuel and renewable energy resources, the construction of new nuclear power plants (NPPs) has been considered. Because of this, the management policies for long-term spent nuclear

This research used a model with fuzzy measurement on 132 surveys to assess the social acceptance of the wind industry in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec-Mexico. This study uses diffuse analysis in a region where people are difficult to interview due to cultural barriers. The results were categorized globally and internally in environmental, economic, and social impacts. The results demonstrate the rejection

This paper presents comprehensive diagrams applied in the search for the optimal strategy for investing in heat sources and analysis of the impact of technical and economic parameters on specific heat production costs in single-fuel combined heat and power plants. An innovative methodology was applied to find for the specific cost of heat production in various technologies. The results regarding the

The Paris agreement called on parties to formulate long-term low greenhouse gas emission development strategies. This paper aims to contribute to the definition of Colombia's mid-century strategy. For this, we use the Global Change Analysis Model (GCAM) to develop three representative pathways toward deep decarbonization by mid-century. We explore what might happen under Colombia's current policy trajectory

The relationship between energy and output is one of the key issues in economic literature. Existing empirical studies have mainly used the neoclassical one-sector aggregate production function to examine the energy-output nexus and revealed inconclusive results. To address this issue, in this paper, we develop a two-sector model differentiating the energy sector from the conventional production sector

The spatial resolution of energy system optimisation models (ESOMs) is often compromised for computational performance. Reducing the spatial resolution impacts the least-cost solutions when optimising the generation capacity and transmission capacity of the ESOMs with high penetration of variable renewable energy sources. Previous studies show that the two main effects of spatial resolution reduction

Nuclear energy renders itself as one of the sustainable energy sources for power production available now. But the major nuclear accident that occurred in the nuclear industry has shown that the generation of nuclear energy has an inherent risk for the environment and the eco-system. Therefore, members of the public - the principal stakeholders - shall be provided with significant opportunities for

This paper presents a multiscale integrated analysis comparing changes in the energy metabolic pattern of China and the European Union between 2000 and 2016. The MuSIASEM method is used to explore and illustrate the entanglement over different factors, across dimensions and levels of analysis. Demographic factors observed at the level of the whole are linked to changes in the economic structure, the

This study examines the impact of globalization(s) on renewable energy consumption in OECD countries by endogenizing per capita GDP, oil prices and per capita carbon emissions. We use robust globalization(s) as measured by the “classic”, “reconstructed” and “revisited” globalization indexes. The novel method of Machado and Silva Panel quantile regression (2019) approach is used to obtain robust findings

Cities are ought to play a key role in the energy transition to a low carbon society as they concentrate more than half of the world's population and are responsible for about 67% primary energy consumption and around 70% of the energy-related CO2 emissions. To achieve the agreed climate targets, efficient urban planning is a must. Tools and methods have risen to model different aspects of the energy

Given the energy-related accidents and issues in our society, public perceptions of specific energy technologies are a fundamental concern while formulating local and national energy plans. As an approach toward addressing these perceptions, the current study was aimed at collecting user-created contents on renewable energy in a topic-based social network service. A word network model in social network

Achieving ambitious reductions in greenhouse gases (GHG) is particularly challenging for transportation due to the technical limitations of replacing oil-based fuels. We apply the integrated assessment model MEDEAS-World to study four global transportation decarbonization strategies for 2050. The results show that a massive replacement of oil-fueled individual vehicles to electric ones alone cannot

Climate change mitigation strategies are multifaceted and require collaboration among a range of stakeholder groups. The objective of this paper was to develop an overarching Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation Area Policy (REECAP) framework. The framework was developed based on a comprehensive literature review, in which seven principles for Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation Policies were

The rapidly increasing renewable energy installations are often controlled through permit schemes, and good permit practices need to be developed for energy policy planning purposes. In Finland ground heat exchangers (GHEs) for geoenergy systems commonly need a permit from the municipal building control. We examine this municipal permit scheme, its functionality in groundwater protection and compatibility

We assess the geological and economic viability of underground natural gas storage in Saudi Arabia under different scenarios: with and without LNG imports allowed, and under low and high domestic gas production. Depleted oil fields or aquifers are best suited for gas storage in the Kingdom. Using a model of the country's energy system, we show that in the case of high gas production, storage capacity

This study investigates the relationship of the U.S. industrial production with West Texas Intermediate crude oil and Henry Hub natural gas prices. It determines the time-varying asymmetric relationship of crude oil, natural gas and industrial production from 1986 to 2018 by using Maximum Overlap Discrete Wavelet Transform and Quantile Regression. The U.S. industrial production has a short-term supply-driven

The Gulf Cooperation Council, despite being the home for the world's largest oil and gas reserves and the highest per capita GDP, the Greenhouse Gas emissions from transportation remain poorly understood, and a missing piece in the puzzle of reduction policies. This paper uses Oman as a Gulf Cooperation Council Countries representative model, with a transport-fuel policy to reveal carbon growth from

Biodiesel is an attractive fuel replacement for diesel engine in Malaysia. The application of biodiesel as fuel-blend has been implemented commercially in transport sector in the country. Among various potential feedstock for biodiesel production, microalgae have been appeared as a promising source since a decade due to its' high biomass productivity, rapid growth rate, large amount of lipid content

In most sub-Saharan countries, development is severely limited by the scarcity of electricity and fuel for transportation as well as the fragility of institutional organizations. Bioenergy is a natural candidate for the diversification of the energy matrix and the socioeconomic development in developing countries. Exploring the concept of “institutional transplant”, this study designs a preliminary