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Sibylle Studer and Stefan Rieder
Heating is responsible for a substantial share of global energy consumption and still relies strongly on fossil fuels. In order to reduce energy consumption for heating, subsidies for building renovations are a common policy measure in Europe. Policy mak...
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Grant Dansie, Marc Lanteigne and Indra Overland
This article examines and compares efforts to reduce energy subsidies in China, India and Russia. Despite dissimilarities in forms of governance, these three states have followed surprisingly similar patterns in reducing energy subsidies, characterised b...
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Federica Cucchiella, Idiano D?Adamo and Massimo Gastaldi
A solar photovoltaic system produces electricity by converting energy from the sun. By the end of 2016, the global installed solar photovoltaic capacity reached 305 GW. Its growth is impressive in the last years; in fact, it was only equal to 41 GW in 20...
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Georgi Nikolov Georgiev
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The paper investigates the issue of fuel poverty and its presence in the Bulgarian context. The focus of the analysis is on the potential for alleviation and ? in the long term ? elimination of energy poverty through the implementation of measures for en...
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Georgi Nikolov Georgiev
Pág. 43 - 57
The paper investigates the issue of fuel poverty and its presence in the Bulgarian context. The focus of the analysis is on the potential for alleviation and ? in the long term ? elimination of energy poverty through the implementation of measures for en...
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Yuyin Yi and Jinxi Li
To study the cooperation of upstream and downstream enterprises of a supply chain in energy saving and emissions reduction, we establish a Stackelberg game model. The retailer moves first to decide a cost-sharing contract, then the manufacturer determine...
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Bethany Foley, Kenan Degirmenci and Tan Yigitcanlar
Transport activities are among the major contributors of greenhouse gas emissions and the resulting global climate crisis. Despite some efforts in shifting from internal combustion engines to electric motors, the global market share of electric vehicles ...
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Laura Eaton Carleton and Dennis Becker
Forest biomass used for heating, electricity, and biofuel production is a source of energy that could reduce the dependence on energy imports while reinvesting domestically. Using the appropriate scale and technology, the US state of Minnesota is poised ...
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Perrihan Al-Riffai, Julian Blohmke, Clemens Breisinger and Manfred Wiebelt
While the recent political transition in Egypt has delayed much-needed policy reforms, our paper suggests that under certain conditions, fostering the national renewable energy strategy may be a promising way of giving an ailing economy an urgently neede...
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Kamphol Promjiraprawat and Bundit Limmeechokchai
This study assesses Thailand?s energy policies on renewable electricity generation and energy efficiency in industries and buildings. The CO2 emissions from power generation expansion plans (PGEPs) are also evaluated. The PGEPs of CO2
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Sung-Lin Hsueh, Yue Sun, Yihang Zhang, Nan Xiao and Teen-Hang Meen
Many countries aim to promote low-carbon and eco-friendly development and find a route to sustainable development. For such development, a model that helps design and build appropriate constructions is necessary. Thus, this study is carried out to establ...
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Caterina Caprioli, Marta Bottero and Elena De Angelis
Renewable energy resources and energy-efficient technologies, as well as building retrofitting, are only some of the possible strategies that can achieve more sustainable cities and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Subsidies and incentives are often prov...
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Lucas Mackie, Daniel Coles, Matthew Piggott and Athanasios Angeloudis
The extraction of tidal energy from head differences represents a predictable and flexible option for generating electricity. Here, we investigate the generation potential of prospective tidal power plants in the UK. Originally conceived as separate proj...
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Csaba Patkós, Zsolt Radics, József Barnabás Tóth, Eniko Kovács, Péter Csorba, István Fazekas, György Szabó and Tamás Tóth
European climate change objectives aim to reduce CO2 emissions, promote the spread of renewable energy sources (RES), and stimulate energy efficiency (EE). The situation of local and regional governance is crucial in the implementation of community objec...
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In 1972, The Limits to Growth, using the World3 System Dynamics model, modeled for the first time the long-term risk of food security, which would emerge from the complex relation between capital and population growth within the limits of the planet. In ...
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Harald Winkler
How much can poverty be reduced through carbon tax revenue? This study analyses specific programmes, with carbon taxes generating revenues and equivalent spending on programmes to reduce energy poverty. The twin challenges of development and climate chan...
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Zhisong Chen and Shong-Iee Ivan Su
In the past decades, the inappropriate subsidy policies in many nations have caused problems such as serious oversupply, fierce competition and subpar social welfare in the photovoltaic (PV) industry in many nations. There is a clear shortage in the PV i...
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Xiangzheng Deng, Jianzhi Han and Fang Yin
Bioenergy is currently regarded as a renewable energy source with a high growth potential. Forest-based biodiesel, with the significant advantage of not competing with grain production on cultivated land, has been considered as a promising substitute for...
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Richard Vlosky,Roger Smithhart
Biomass has a large energy potential. A comparison between the available potential with the current use shows that, on a worldwide level, about two-fifths of the existing biomass energy potential is used. In most areas of the world the current biomass us...
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Roman Votteler, Johan Hough, Chanel Venter
Scientists agree that rising electricity usage of the rapidly growing human race to improve its standard of living is negatively affecting the environment. To create a sustainable environment for future generations, renewable and environmentally friendly...
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