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Energy & Fuels
Susana Silva, Isabel Soares, Carlos Pinho
Summary: This article questions the fiscal advantage of diesel fuel in Portugal based on economic and environmental reasons. The study shows that diesel consumption in Portugal is insensitive to price changes and instead heavily dependent on economic growth due to its predominant use in commercial sectors. Therefore, higher taxes on diesel may not effectively moderate demand and could hinder firms' competitiveness. To protect the environment, alternative policy options such as environmental standards and incentives for electric mobility should be explored.
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Environmental Sciences
Jiayu Sun, Xiao-Bing Zhang, Yang Liu, Xinye Zheng
Summary: This study investigates the pass-through of diesel consumption taxes to retail prices and estimates the consequent effect on diesel consumption and carbon emissions in China. The results show that the pass-through rate of diesel taxes in China is around 0.49 and there is a significant effect of an oil company's market share on the pass-through rate. Based on the pass-through rate and estimated price elasticity, the increase in the diesel consumption tax in 2014/2015 reduces 1.64% of annual diesel consumption and 0.096% of annual carbon emissions in China.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Chien-Chiang Lee, Godwin Olasehinde-Williams
Summary: The study found that gasoline consumption is not very responsive to price and income changes, with elasticity varying over time and increasing sensitivity during economic crises. Constant elasticity models tend to overestimate price and income elasticity, with income being more elastic than price.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Economics
Puneet Vatsa, Faruk Balli
Summary: Tourism demand theory suggests that tourists' incomes, prices in destination countries, and prices in tourists' countries of origin are key determinants of tourism demand. However, this study finds that for long-haul travel, incomes and prices do not significantly affect tourism demand in the short run. In the long run, there is some evidence of income sensitivity but insensitivity to price changes. These findings have broad relevance for long-haul destinations worldwide.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Mihai Ioan Mutascu, Claudiu Tiberiu Albulescu, Nicholas Apergis, Cosimo Magazzino
Summary: This study investigates the co-movements of gasoline and diesel prices in three European countries with different fuel tax systems. The analysis reveals that there are co-movements between gasoline and diesel prices at different frequencies and moments in time, both in the long and short run. The findings suggest that fuel tax systems do not influence the co-movements of fuel prices.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2022)
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Agricultural Economics & Policy
Wanissa Suanin
Summary: The study found that the demand for processed food exports from developing countries is more influenced by income and less by price. This suggests that demand expansion for imports is primarily driven by income growth.
JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS
(2021)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Arshad Bhat, Javier Ordonez Garcia
Summary: To achieve the climate change targets set by the European Union, policies have been implemented to address the rising carbon emissions from road transport sector. Sustainability analysis indicates that direct electrification of road transport is the optimal solution to reduce carbon emissions in the EU. Failure to significantly reduce diesel and gasoline carbon emissions poses a risk to the EU's carbon budget commitments and climate change targets.
APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
(2021)
Article
Economics
Mohammad Vesal, Amir Hossein Tavakoli, Mohammad H. Rahmati
Summary: This study uses a unique dataset of gasoline transactions in Iran to identify a price elasticity of -0.085, revealing significant withholding behavior by consumers in response to anticipated price changes. Aggregation of data by week, month, and city yields a biased estimate of -0.3 in earlier studies.
EMPIRICAL ECONOMICS
(2022)
Article
Economics
Siab Mamipour, Ali Asghar Salem, Mohammad Sayadi, Masoumeh Azizkhani
Summary: The prevailing fixed-price gasoline pricing policy in Iran has resulted in excessive energy consumption, fuel smuggling, and environmental concerns. To address these issues, a new gasoline pricing policy is proposed that takes into account socio-economic factors. The study categorizes gasoline consumption into different groups and suggests avoiding price increases for groups consuming below 80 L per month to prevent social unrest. Additionally, a tax rate of 5% is recommended for consumption above the current ration.
Article
Economics
Michael Gelman, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Shachar Kariv, Dmitri Koustas, Matthew D. Shapiro, Dan Silverman, Steven Tadelis
Summary: This paper estimates the impact of gasoline price changes on overall consumer spending using individual-level transaction data. The analysis finds that the average estimated marginal propensity to consume out of unanticipated, permanent income shocks is approximately one. This implies that changes in gasoline prices have significant aggregate effects.
AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-MACROECONOMICS
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Jianghua Liu, Nianjiao Gong, Jiahong Qin
Summary: Carbon tax policies can effectively limit energy consumption and reduce pollution, but they also have an impact on residents' welfare through a price mechanism. The elasticity of coal demand for urban and rural residents differs, and China's residential energy consumption has shifted towards clean energy. The overall welfare loss for residents increases with the level of carbon tax, and the welfare impacts of carbon taxes vary for different energy sources.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Article
Economics
Jean Hindriks, Valerio Serse
Summary: This paper investigates the impact of VAT reform on the Belgian electricity market, finding that changes in the VAT rate were fully passed on to electricity prices and that electricity demand has a certain elasticity in response to price changes.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION
(2022)
Article
Economics
Tianchang Zhai, Lei Li, Jingjing Wang, Wei Si
Summary: This study examines the effect of consumption tax on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) in China. The findings suggest that the tax will significantly reduce SSB consumption and promote the consumption of low-calorie drinks.
CHINA ECONOMIC REVIEW
(2022)
Article
Economics
Dmitry S. Gordeev, Ekaterina A. Galeeva
Summary: The oil refining industry is a crucial sector of the Russian economy, but the determinants and elasticities of oil product consumption have not been thoroughly studied. This article presents a model of demand for oil products using detailed monthly data from Russian regions, and estimates the short-term and long-term elasticities.
EKONOMICHESKAYA POLITIKA
(2022)
Article
Economics
Marek Vochozka, Filip Petrach, Svatopluk Janek
Summary: The research findings indicate that in Europe, coffee is considered an inferior good with almost perfect price inelasticity, and it is important for everyday consumption; however, excessive consumption may pose potential health risks.
ECONOMICS & SOCIOLOGY
(2022)
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)