Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
V. S. K. V. Harish, Naqui Anwer, Amit Kumar
Summary: This paper presents an exclusive literature review on the application of decentralized energy systems for the development of rural microgrids. It provides a comparative analysis of renewable and non-renewable energy technologies, optimization algorithms, and feasibility studies for attracting the attention of developers and operators.
SUSTAINABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES AND ASSESSMENTS
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Yibeltal T. Wassie, Muyiwa S. Adaramola
Summary: This study examines the drivers and impacts of rural electrification with Solar Photovoltaic (PV) systems in Ethiopia, finding that the use of solar PV systems is growing and can lead to cost savings, increased electricity production, and higher income for rural households. However, challenges such as poor quality products, high costs, lack of after-sales services, and limited access to credit financing sources were also identified.
ENERGY FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
(2021)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Nishant Kumar, Kumari Namrata, Akshit Samadhiya
Summary: This article proposes an upgraded fractional-order version of the classical JAYA algorithm to highlight the benefits of rapid renewable technologies. An intelligent framework is suggested to analyze the impacts of solar unpredictability, assess biomass planning profiles, scrutinize stochastic reliability, and make optimal-economic decisions. The proposed algorithm is used to develop an expandable and robust decision-making tool for techno-socio-economic planning.
SUSTAINABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES AND ASSESSMENTS
(2023)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Rohit Sharma, Deepak Choudhary, Sayli Shiradkar, Praveen Kumar, Jayendran Venkateswaran, Chetan Singh Solanki, Gautam N. Yadama
Summary: The study revealed that awareness and willingness to pay for solar products among rural households in India have increased over time, but there is still room for improvement, especially in terms of awareness for solar home systems and solar water pumps. Higher income households are more likely to pay for solar lamps at market price, but this relationship is significantly influenced by their awareness of solar products and motivation to adopt solar technology.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2021)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Huaping Sun, Rehmat Ullah Awan, Muhammad Atif Nawaz, Muhammad Mohsin, Abdul Khaliq Rasheed, Nadeem Iqbal
Summary: Solar power is a promising alternative energy source for developing countries in Asia, particularly in South Asian countries, with sufficient solar irradiance for power production. The study in Sindh Province, Pakistan, highlights the economic viability of off-grid solar photovoltaic systems, which can provide electricity at a lower cost compared to traditional energy sources while reducing CO2 emissions. The implementation of off-grid solar energy systems can provide a renewable roadmap for energy in South Asian countries and remote regions.
ENVIRONMENT DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY
(2021)
Article
Thermodynamics
Tahir Khan, Muhammad Waseem, Mustafa Tahir, Shengyuan Liu, Miao Yu
Summary: This study proposes an off-grid PV-hydrogen energy system for electrifying rural households in Balochistan, Pakistan. The system is designed and optimized based on electric load profile, geographical locations, and meteorological data. The analysis shows that the proposed energy system is economically feasible and technically reliable.
ENERGY CONVERSION AND MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Sushil Rajagopalan, Hanna L. Breetz
Summary: This article uses the case study of India's off-grid solar sector to examine the development of decentralized renewables, focusing on the interactions among different actors at multiple levels and the role of evolving policy narratives. The study provides empirical evidence on how regime actors create niches and contributes to the theoretical understanding of energy transitions through narrative analysis within the Multi-Level Perspective framework.
ENVIRONMENTAL INNOVATION AND SOCIETAL TRANSITIONS
(2022)
Article
Energy & Fuels
Reena Sayani, Paloma Ortega-Arriaga, Philip Sandwell, Oytun Babacan, Ajay Gambhir, Darren Robinson, Jenny Nelson
Summary: Demand growth scenarios and choice of mini-grid sizing approaches have significant financial and operational implications for the design of systems for rural electrification. The use of a multi-stage approach in sizing mini-grids can result in cost savings.
JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-ENERGY
(2023)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Vitaliy Kovshov, Eugene Stovba, Milyausha Lukyanova, Zariya Zalilova, Guzalia Sitdikova
Summary: The development of rural territorial formations is an important part of agro-economic science and society functioning. This study applies foresight to design target indicators for the socio-economic development of rural territories. The research results can be used for strategic planning and forecasting. The application of foresight in strategic planning improves decision-making and promotes balanced economic and social development of rural territories.
ENVIRONMENT DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Samuel O. Babalola, Michael O. Daramola, Samuel A. Iwarere
Summary: The development of resilient energy systems is crucial for sustainable cities and communities. This study examines the impact of a solar hybrid mini-grid on the socio-economic growth of local entrepreneurs in a village in Nigeria, and provides insights through descriptive statistics and regression analysis.
PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Faisal Nawab, Ag Sufiyan Abd Hamid, Muhammad Arif, Tufial A. Khan, Amir Naveed, Muhammad Sadiq, Sahibzada Imad Ud Din, Adnan Ibrahim
Summary: This paper proposes an off-grid solar-biogas micro-grid system for rural communities in Pakistan. The optimized system can meet the power needs of 100 households and is economically and technically viable.
Article
Construction & Building Technology
Shahid Hussain, Rashid Maqbool, Ammar Hussain, Saleha Ashfaq
Summary: This study empirically investigates the impacts of socio-economic factors on community development in rural regions. The findings suggest that economic and social factors influence the community development of rural regions. The results of this study have important implications for local authorities, policymakers, and project stakeholders in enhancing community development.
Article
Development Studies
Ridhima Gupta, Martino Pelli
Summary: This study investigates the causal link between electrification and the adoption of modern (specifically LPG) cooking fuels. The results show that electrification leads to an increased likelihood of poor households adopting biomass fuels and a decreased likelihood of adopting costly modern fuels under a fixed budget constraint.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Debajit Palit, Atul Kumar
Summary: Despite significant progress, the electrification sector in India still faces multiple challenges. This study examined the drivers and barriers to rural electrification, highlighting the importance of enabling policies and government support. The research identified political, economic, and financial factors as the main drivers for centralized grid expansion, and convergence with livelihood programs and electricity for irrigation as strong drivers for RE-based mini-grids. High electricity costs and customers' inability to pay were perceived as barriers for both central grid and mini-grids.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2022)
Article
Remote Sensing
C. Scott Watson, John R. Elliott, Marco Cordova, Jonathan Menoscal, Santiago Bonilla-Bedoya
Summary: Artificial light at night (ALAN) has both positive and negative effects on various systems, and its presence is expected to increase with urban expansion. This study used high-resolution night-time imagery from the Jilin-1 satellite to assess lighting patterns in an expanding and complex-built environment in Quito, Ecuador. The results showed that the road network was the main source of illumination, accounting for 45% of illuminated pixels, while built-up areas accounted for 23%.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING
(2023)
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)