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Economics
Wei Shen, Jijiang He, Shangheng Yao
Summary: China is facing challenges in continuing support for the solar PV industry as it enters the age of grid-parity; integrating various development benefits into solar energy infrastructure projects has potential; a comprehensive governance framework and stringent evaluation systems are needed for long term success.
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Energy & Fuels
Aleh Cherp, Vadim Vinichenko, Jale Tosun, Joel A. Gordon, Jessica Jewell
Summary: The growth dynamics of renewable energy adoption vary between different countries in early and mature stages. While climate mitigation scenarios envision considerable growth of wind and solar energy, scholars disagree on how this growth compares with historical trends.
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Environmental Sciences
Yan Xu, Jiamei Pei, Jiahai Yuan, Guohao Zhao
Summary: Renewable energy, such as concentrated solar power (CSP), is crucial for energy savings and emission reduction. Despite cost obstacles, economic analysis shows that CSP technology, particularly solar tower technology, is approaching grid parity in China. Policy implications, such as preferential loans and tax incentives, are suggested to promote CSP development.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2022)
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Da Liu, Yumeng Liu, Kun Sun
Summary: Renewable energy, particularly wind power and photovoltaic power generation industries, is rapidly developing globally with the stimulation of subsidies. However, China's wind power and PV power generation industries, as the largest renewable energy generation country, are facing subsidy gaps. The cancellation of subsidies has brought challenges and opportunities to power generation companies, prompting the exploration of its impact on wind power, PV power, and coal-fired power generation companies in this study.
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Rui Chang, Lei Bai, Ching-Hsien Hsu
Summary: In recent years, the proportion of grid energy generated by renewables has significantly increased due to smart grid initiatives. Forecasting future renewable energy production and developing prediction models for distributed production across millions of homes on the grid are important challenges that have been addressed by the Traditional Encoder Single Deep Learning (TESDL) method. By comparing various regression techniques, it was found that the accuracy factor in VM-based forecast models showed a 27% improvement over conventional methods.
SUSTAINABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES AND ASSESSMENTS
(2021)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Changgui Dong, Gregory Nemet, Xue Gao, Galen Barbose, Benjamin Sigrin, Eric O'Shaughnessy
Summary: The further deployment of rooftop solar photovoltaics (PV) is hindered by high soft costs, especially customer acquisition expenses. This study demonstrates that machine learning can significantly improve prediction performance in identifying PV adopters and reducing soft costs compared to traditional significance-based methods. Through machine learning, the true positive rate of predicting adopters increased from 66 to 87%, and the true negative rate of predicting non-adopters increased from 75 to 88%. This enhanced performance is attributed to the incorporation of complex variable interactions and nonlinear effects. Machine learning can reduce customer acquisition costs by 15% ($0.07/Watt) and uncover new market opportunities for solar companies to expand and diversify customer bases.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2023)
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Economics
Ekundayo Shittu, Carmen Weigelt
Summary: Several policies aim to promote the use of renewable energy by incumbent utilities, but the limited accessibility, especially among low- and middle-income consumers, hinders the scale of adoption. Our study examines the efforts of utilities to provide access to clean energy for consumers, particularly for low- and middle-income households. Factors such as ownership models, income disparity, and regulatory regime play a significant role in shaping the accessibility of solar initiatives for these households.
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Environmental Studies
Juyeon Lee, Seung-Pyo Jun, Chul Lee
Summary: Demand-side innovation policies play a significant role in the energy sector but carry the risk of technological lock-in. This study focuses on the solar photovoltaic technology sector and finds that demand-side innovation policies widen the gap in innovation performance between mature and less mature technologies. It suggests implementing technology-specific policies that consider technological maturity to enhance technology diversity.
ENERGY RESEARCH & SOCIAL SCIENCE
(2022)
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Energy & Fuels
S. Sreenath, Azlin Mohd Azmi, Nofri Yenita Dahlan, K. Sudhakar
Summary: Southeast Asian countries have abundant potential for solar energy, but the utilization of solar photovoltaic power remains low. This paper investigates the solar PV policies in ASEAN over the past decade and provides policy recommendations. Regulatory policies and mechanisms are found to be crucial for the growth of solar PV, despite the advantages of solar irradiation and decreasing system costs. Vietnam has achieved significant growth in solar PV through the successful implementation of the Feed-in-Tariff scheme. Thailand and Malaysia have transitioned from the Feed-in-Tariff scheme to peer-to-peer energy trading in their policy landscapes.
Review
Energy & Fuels
Dazhi Yang, Weixing Li, Gokhan Mert Yagli, Dipti Srinivasan
Summary: This study identifies four technical aspects of solar forecasting that are often overlooked: gauging forecast quality, quantifying predictability, forecast downscaling, and hierarchical forecasting. The challenges associated with these aspects are discussed in conjunction with industry standards issued by the National Energy Administration of China.
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Energy & Fuels
Monica Hernandez Cedillo, Hongjian Sun, Jing Jiang, Yue Cao
Summary: This paper proposes a dynamic optimal operation of a solar-powered EV charging station, aiming to integrate more electric vehicles and renewable energy sources through pricing and control strategies. Simulations demonstrate that participating in energy markets can bring additional revenue streams to charging stations.
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Manojit Ray, Basab Chakraborty
Summary: Globally, 750 million people live without electricity, mainly in Africa and South Asia. While solar photovoltaic powered mini-grids are improving access in deprived regions, challenges such as low load factors and expensive storage persist. Collaboration on critical household loads can enhance mini-grid viability and reduce costs.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2021)
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Energy & Fuels
Lingling Mu, Yidan Gu, Yafeng Guo, Ping Liu
Summary: The goal of achieving grid parity in China's photovoltaic development by 2021 is closer for distributed PV than for centralized PV. A case study in Ningxia Province shows that centralized PV cannot reach grid parity in 2021, although it may do so in 2022 under certain scenarios.
FRONTIERS IN ENERGY RESEARCH
(2021)
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Environmental Sciences
Andres de Jesus Fernandez, Jim Watson
Summary: This study evaluates the impact of changes in Mexican energy policies on the Mexican innovation system's ability to support renewable energy technologies, using a comparative case study on geothermal and solar photovoltaic technologies. The results suggest that government priorities have a strong influence on the development of these technologies in Mexico, and that policy instruments encouraging knowledge formation are critical for their continued development.
ENVIRONMENTAL INNOVATION AND SOCIETAL TRANSITIONS
(2022)
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Operations Research & Management Science
Ying Chen, Krystel K. Castillo-Villar, Bing Dong
Summary: This paper proposes an efficient data-driven building electricity management system integrating BES and photovoltaic panels, and uses various strategies to control the MG system. Results show that the lookahead policy with stochastic forecasts performs best.
ANNALS OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH
(2021)
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Engineering, Industrial
Juan Carlos Hernandez-Matias, Jared R. Ocampo, Antonio Hidalgo, Antonio Vizan
JOURNAL OF MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT
(2020)
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Environmental Sciences
Juan Herrero, Andrea Torres, Pep Vivas, Antonio Hidalgo, Francisco J. Rodriguez, Alberto Uruena
Summary: This study confirms the dual vulnerability of smartphone users to cybercrime, influenced by both lifestyle-routine activities and self-control theories, as well as smartphone addiction. The findings indicate that cybercrime victimization is higher under conditions of high exposure, proximity, suitability, lack of capable guardians, and low self-control.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
(2021)
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Environmental Sciences
Ebru Susur, Emrah Karakaya
Summary: The sustainability transitions literature often overlooks deeper reasons for unsustainability, alternative sustainability solutions, sustainability trade-offs, and potential sustainability effects beyond case boundaries. Scholars need to adopt a more reflexive sustainability perspective in order to address these issues and contribute to more reflective scholarship in the future.
ENVIRONMENTAL INNOVATION AND SOCIETAL TRANSITIONS
(2021)
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Engineering, Industrial
Mats Engwall, Matti Kaulio, Emrah Karakaya, Maxim Miterev, Daniel Berlin
Summary: The paper investigates the intersection between business model innovation and sustainability transitions, revealing how organizations collaborate in cross-industry networks to explore potential business models for profound changes. By introducing the concept of experimental networks, it illustrates how they facilitate business model innovation in relation to systemic change, providing a way for incumbents to claim agency in emerging sustainability transitions.
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Environmental Studies
Amanda Ohman, Emrah Karakaya, Frauke Urban
Summary: This paper explores the conditions for transferring green hydrogen technology from Sweden to other major steel-producing countries in Europe. The study finds that while Sweden's iron and steel industry is unique, other countries, particularly Germany, are rapidly catching up in hydrogen-based steel production. To enable hydrogen-based steel production, coordination between energy and industry transitions, establishment of policy frameworks, and cooperation among key actors representing all aspects of these transitions are crucial.
ENERGY RESEARCH & SOCIAL SCIENCE
(2022)
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Economics
Antonio Hidalgo, Angel Palomares
Summary: The study proposes an innovation model to evaluate how innovation is strategically managed through factors and determinants in an aeronautical firm, demonstrating the efficiency and robustness of the innovation management process through three indexes.
ECONOMIC RESEARCH-EKONOMSKA ISTRAZIVANJA
(2022)
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Information Science & Library Science
Ermal Hetemi, Joaquin Ordieres, Cali Nuur
Summary: This paper provides an exploratory understanding of the process of knowledge-work in the inter-organisational setting of a large-scale infrastructure project. The authors use a case study of a High-speed Rail Line (HSL) project in Spain to propose a contingency framework that explores the transformation and exploitation of inter-organisational network knowledge. The study highlights the importance of industrial setting, project arrangement, and individual or institutionalized learning in the knowledge-work process.
KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT RESEARCH & PRACTICE
(2022)
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Management
Gustavo Morales-Alonso, Yilsy Nunez, J. Manuel Fernandez-Angulo, Antonio Hidalgo
Summary: The study findings indicate that extrinsic motivators are the primary driver for participants in crowdfunding campaigns across different platform types.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Y. Y. Lai, E. Christley, A. Kulanovic, C. C. Teng, A. Bjorklund, J. Nordensvard, E. Karakaya, F. Urban
Summary: This paper analyzes the opportunities and challenges of mitigation measures in reducing the climate impact of aviation in Sweden, including limiting travel volume, energy, and emission intensity. It also highlights the socio-economic and political challenges faced by these measures.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2022)
Proceedings Paper
Economics
Alister La Bella, Gustavo Morales-Alonso, Antonio Hidalgo, Nathan Ghiron Levialdi
Summary: Global economic development is closely linked to global warming and sustainability concerns. Supranational institutions like the United Nations play a role in sharing a global and inclusive vision. However, the responsibility for taking action lies with economic actors such as companies. Multinational companies like Amazon have the means to make a positive impact on the sustainability of their suppliers through strategic alliances. The Vendor Flex model implemented by Amazon is an example of such an alliance aimed at improving sustainability while providing better service to customers.
KNOWLEDGE DRIVERS FOR RESILIENCE AND TRANSFORMATION, IFKAD 2022
(2022)
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Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Antonio Hidalgo, Nerea Perez, Isaac Lemus-Aguilar
Summary: This study compares implemented projects and pilot projects to identify four factors that influence the implementation of eHealth innovation projects: technological anxiety, facilities, training, and social influence. The findings provide a basis for improving the success rate of project implementation.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOFTWARE SCIENCE AND COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE-IJSSCI
(2022)
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Operations Research & Management Science
Daniel Berlin, Andreas Feldmann, Cali Nuur
Summary: This paper contributes to the literature by identifying and empirically illustrating the characteristics of open-loop supply chains, and developing a conceptual framework of the open- and closed-loop supply chain continuum.
CLEANER LOGISTICS AND SUPPLY CHAIN
(2022)
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Business
Frano Barbic, Albert Jolink, Eva Niesten, Antonio Hidalgo
Summary: This article introduces three concepts from transaction cost economics to address the demands in the open innovation literature for an explanatory mechanism for closing open innovation. The concepts of unanticipated disturbances, tolerance zone, and interpretations of contracts are discussed to explain the transitioning between closed and open innovation. A case study on a B2B open innovation project illustrates how threats to value creation and capture impact the continuation or closing of open innovation.
INDUSTRIAL MARKETING MANAGEMENT
(2021)
Article
Management
Antonio Hidalgo, Isaac Lemus-Aguilar, Alberto Uruena
Summary: Consulting firms are part of knowledge-intensive business services, where expert knowledge is crucial for service provision. This study aims to understand how consulting firms strategically manage innovation processes and focus on capabilities and dimensions for innovation based on interaction among internal and external actors. The challenge for consulting firms is to balance incremental change with radical innovations by exploiting current knowledge and exploring new ideas simultaneously.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT
(2021)
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Economics
Armaghan Chizaryfard, Paolo Trucco, Cali Nuur
Summary: The concept of the circular economy has gained attention as a strategy to reduce climate change and minimize resource waste. While existing literature mainly focuses on the ecological perspective of the transition process towards the circular economy, the underlying mechanisms of industrial change, including structural tensions, have not been adequately discussed.
JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY ECONOMICS
(2021)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
M. Genovese, F. Piraino, P. Fragiacomo
Summary: This research proposes the concept of a hydrogen valley in southern Italy, where hydrogen is produced centrally and delivered via fuel cell hybrid trains to refueling stations, providing transportation services. The analysis from both technical and economic perspectives shows that the cost of hydrogen and energy efficiency reached competitive levels, and hydrogen rail transport offers significant benefits in terms of emissions reduction and economic gains compared to conventional diesel trains and fully electric trains.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Miaomiao Liu, Payam Nejat, Pinlu Cao, Carlos Jimenez-Bescos, John Kaiser Calautit
Summary: This article provides a critical review of the performance of windcatchers, pointing out the current research gaps and issues, and proposing directions for further investigation and market prospects.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Solomon Boadu, Ebenezer Otoo
Summary: Despite Africa's vast energy resources, including wind energy, the continent faces challenges in developing its wind energy industry. Northern African countries and South Africa currently dominate the wind energy sector in Africa. To uplift Africa's socio-economic status, strong political will, supportive policies, and institutional frameworks are needed to drive the development of wind energy and overcome existing challenges.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
E. K. Grubbs, S. M. Gruss, V. Z. Schull, M. J. Gosney, M. V. Mickelbart, S. Brouder, M. W. Gitau, P. Bermel, M. R. Tuinstra, R. Agrawal
Summary: As the global population grows, the demand for food, energy, and water will increase significantly. However, limited land availability and competition for solar resources pose challenges to resource generation technologies. In the United States, both agriculture and solar energy production have adopted densification schemes to improve yields and energy output per unit of land. This research proposes an Agrivoltaic food and energy coproduction architecture that optimizes power generation while maintaining crop productivity by implementing ideal anti-tracking during critical growth periods. This technology offers a viable pathway for widespread solar implementation throughout the contiguous United States.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Han Shao, Rui Henriques, Hugo Morais, Elisabetta Tedeschi
Summary: The integration of offshore wind energy into the electric grid provides opportunities in terms of environmental sustainability and cost efficiency, but poses challenges to power quality. This survey offers a deeper understanding of disturbance detection and classification tools, exploring root causes, disturbance locations, and algorithmic solutions. It highlights synchronized waveform measurement and discusses evaluation metrics for detection and classification algorithms. Additionally, a novel system-wide monitoring framework is proposed.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Eleni Davidson, Yair Schwartz, Joe Williams, Dejan Mumovic
Summary: A continued upward trend in global greenhouse gas emissions poses risks to global infrastructure and built assets. Maintaining high indoor environmental quality standards is a challenge for higher education institutions under future climates. Passive cooling mechanisms may be insufficient to tolerate predicted temperature increases. Different building typologies have varying energy demand projections.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Kexin Pang, Jian Zhou, Stamatis Tsianikas, David W. Coit, Yizhong Ma
Summary: This study proposes a new framework for long-term microgrid expansion planning, using deep reinforcement learning method to consider various uncertainties and constraints. The framework aims to enhance the effectiveness of microgrid expansion planning from the perspectives of economy, resilience, and greenhouse gas emission reduction.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Jun Zhao, Kangyin Dong, Xiucheng Dong
Summary: The continuous growth of global electricity penetration has provided modern energy for alleviating energy poverty, but its impact on carbon neutrality has been overlooked. The research reveals that clean electricity from traditional fossil energy and renewable energy has a positive influence on the greenhouse effect. Eradicating energy poverty can effectively alleviate the greenhouse effect, especially in non-Belt and Road Initiative (B&RI) nations.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Hossein Shahbeik, Hamed Kazemi Shariat Panahi, Mona Dehhaghi, Gilles J. Guillemin, Alireza Fallahi, Homa Hosseinzadeh-Bandbafha, Hamid Amiri, Mohammad Rehan, Deepak Raikwar, Hannes Latine, Bruno Pandalone, Benyamin Khoshnevisan, Christian Sonne, Luigi Vaccaro, Abdul-Sattar Nizami, Vijai Kumar Gupta, Su Shiung Lam, Junting Pan, Rafael Luque, Bert Sels, Wanxi Peng, Meisam Tabatabaei, Mortaza Aghbashlo
Summary: This review explores the production of biocrude oil from biomass feedstocks through the process of hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL). It discusses the impact of process parameters on the quality, quantity, cost, and environmental impacts of biofuels. The review also highlights the challenges and prospects for the future development of biocrude oil.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Meysam Majidi Nezhad, Mehdi Neshat, Georgios Sylaios, Davide Astiaso Garcia
Summary: Digital twins promise innovation for the marine renewable energy sector by using modern technological advances and the existing maritime knowledge frameworks. This research presents critical aspects of digital twin implementation challenges in marine energy digitalization approaches that use and combine data systems.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Yeganeh Sharifian, Hamdi Abdi
Summary: This paper discusses the background and objectives of the multi-area economic dispatch problem, as well as various techniques and methods applied in this field. It also covers comprehensive formulations of the problem and important issues in the field of probabilistic MAED, along with some related concepts and suggestions.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
J. G. B. Churchill, V. B. Borugadda, A. K. Dalai
Summary: The increasing global energy demand and the need to reduce fossil fuel reliance have created a demand for renewable and sustainable fuel sources. This review explores the potential of tall oil, a by-product of the pulping industry, as a feedstock for biofuels. The review provides an overview of tall oil production, purification, and treatment, and investigates recent trends and barriers towards tall oil-derived biofuels.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
David C. Broadstock, Xiangnan Wang
Summary: This study provides a general review of research on district cooling, identifying key topics and themes and highlighting potential research priorities for future studies.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
L. Scharnhorst, D. Sloot, N. Lehmann, A. Ardone, W. Fichtner
Summary: This study investigates and analyzes the barriers to demand response in industrial and commercial sectors, highlighting their significance. Concerns about diminished product quality, disruptions to production processes, human resource management, and revenue uncertainty are identified as the most frequently cited barriers. Overcoming these barriers requires bridging knowledge gaps, allocating sufficient resources, and adapting external incentives and policies.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Tong Feng, Yuechi Sun, Yating Shi, Jie Ma, Chunmei Feng, Zhenni Chen
Summary: Air pollution is a significant global challenge, and policymakers have implemented policies to reduce it. Evaluating the effectiveness of these policies is critical, and our study reveals trends and gaps in air pollution policy research. We found that research has shifted from focusing solely on air pollutants to including methodologies, policies, and health implications. China has emerged as a major contributor in this field of research.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
