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Alemu Mekonnen, Sied Hassen, Marcela Jaime, Michael Toman, Xiao-Bing Zhang
Summary: Using a randomized field experiment, this study explored the impact of information and subsidy policies on the uptake of solar lanterns by utilizing the Becker-DeGroot-Marschak (BDM) bidding mechanism. The results showed that increasing the subsidy level can improve the adoption rate, while providing information about the benefits of solar lanterns did not significantly affect the adoption rate and willingness to pay. Furthermore, households with access to grid electricity were less willing to pay for solar lanterns and less likely to adopt them. This suggests that subsidizing household-level solar lighting is necessary for achieving universal electricity and clean energy access.
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Economics
Stefan Lamp
Summary: This study examines the influence of behavioral biases on household decisions regarding the adoption of solar photovoltaic installations by using exogenous weather variations. The research shows that residential technology uptake is responsive to exceptional weather, which is defined as deviations from the long-term mean and aligns with the average time gap between decision-making and installation completion. Specifically, a one standard deviation increase in sunshine hours during the purchase period results in an approximate 4.7% increase in weekly solar PV installations. This effect persists in aggregate data. The study suggests that projection bias and salience are key drivers behind these findings.
ENVIRONMENTAL & RESOURCE ECONOMICS
(2023)
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Business
Abhinav Jindal, Gireesh Shrimali
Summary: India plans to achieve a 450 gigawatt increase in renewable energy capacity by 2030. Renewable energy and battery storage have become cost-competitive alternatives to new coal power, starting from 2022. To maximize battery storage deployment, India should implement a battery portfolio standard linked to the existing renewable portfolio standard, and adopt renewable dispatchable generation power purchase agreements to meet multiple policy criteria.
TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE
(2022)
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
A. M. Oosthuizen, R. Inglesi-Lotz
Summary: This study examines the impact of the flexibility of policy priorities on the speed of renewable energy adoption in EU countries. Using topic modelling to extract main ideas from EU policy documents and employing a Sys-GMM model, the findings suggest that changes in policy discourse have a positive effect on renewable energy adoption.
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Business
Qunchao Wan, Jiangfeng Ye, Li Zheng, Zhihong Tan, Shiyi Tang
Summary: With the aim of building an innovative country, China's high-tech industry faces the increasing prominence of government support and market competition in innovation efficiency. Applying various models, the study examines the effects of government support and market competition on innovation efficiency in China's high-tech industry. The study finds that government support inhibits technological development efficiency but promotes innovation achievement transformation efficiency. In contrast, market competition promotes both stages of innovation efficiency. Economic policy uncertainty moderates the effects of government support and technological development efficiency. The study also reveals mediating effects and nonlinear effects between different factors.
TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE
(2023)
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Economics
Tracey Dodd, Tim Nelson
Summary: The study shows that increasing solar PV installation on hardship homes can significantly reduce electricity consumption, lower greenhouse gas emissions, and save energy costs for low-income households over a 15-year period.
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Environmental Studies
Yongan Xu, Ming Li, Wen Yan, Jiancheng Bai
Summary: This study investigates the forecasting ability of the Climate Policy Uncertainty (CPU) index on the global renewable energy market returns. It shows that CPU is an excellent positive predictor of the returns of the renewable energy market, outperforming other predictors. The study also finds that a higher CPU index has a stronger predictive ability, especially after the Paris agreement. Additionally, the predictive power of CPU index enhances the economic gain on asset allocation.
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Xing Hu, Yingying Guo, Yali Zheng, Lan-cui Liu, Shiwei Yu
Summary: This study analyzed the development of renewable energy policies in China and examined the impacts of different types of policies on provincial renewable energy development. The results showed that technology development policies have a positive effect on renewable energy, while market management policies may inhibit its development in provinces with abundant resources. Comprehensive planning policies and support policies such as finance and tax had no significant impact on renewable energy development. Therefore, the Chinese government needs to strengthen the control of market management policies and enhance the execution and supervision of planning management in provinces with limited resources.
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Arndt Feuerbacher, Tristan Herrmann, Sebastian Neuenfeldt, Moritz Laub, Alexander Gocht
Summary: This article assesses the economics and adoption potential of agrivoltaics using national farm accountancy data in Germany. The results show that solar radiation and investment costs are key determinants, and economies-of-scale favor farms with large arable land area. Policy support is needed to make agrivoltaics competitive and ensure its land-efficiency advantage.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2022)
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Zheng Zheng Li, Chi-Wei Su, Nicoleta-Claudia Moldovan, Muhammad Umar
Summary: This study examines the relationship between renewable energy consumption (REC), non-renewable energy consumption (NEC), and policy uncertainties. The findings suggest that the causality between REC and climate policy uncertainty (CPU) is dependent on the authorities' attitude towards climate change. Similarly, the nexus between NEC and CPU is mainly positive, except during global financial crises. Economic policy uncertainty (EPU) has a negative impact on REC, while it has a positive impact on NEC, indicating the convenience and low cost of non-renewable energy during economic downturns.
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Economics
Mathias Mier
Summary: The increasing shares of intermittent renewable energies pose challenges to the traditional way of trading electricity, as coal power plants and consumers cannot react effectively to the stochastic element of renewables. The study reveals that current market mechanisms are insufficient in addressing issues related to consumer compensation, cost recovery for companies, and market imperfections, with gas turbine companies having unnecessary support and renewable energy companies struggling to recover costs due to output risks.
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Soheil Shayegh, Daniel L. Sanchez
Summary: A Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) is a policy instrument aimed at increasing the production of clean energy technologies by mandating a minimum market share, with its cost-effectiveness depending on the market structure and level of competition. Research shows that deregulated markets minimize subsidy requirements for clean energy technologies with lower penetration rates, while regulated markets do so for higher market share mandates. Identifying a critical market share can help policymakers design more cost-effective RPS mandates in both regulated and deregulated markets.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2021)
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Business
Houdou Basse Mama, Rahel Mandaroux
Summary: The study found that there is a concave relationship between a firm's carbon emissions and future market valuations, with valuations initially increasing as emissions rise before decreasing due to regulatory and transition risks. This relationship is only observed in smaller firms with lower analyst coverage and institutional ownership, and the predictive power of emissions is limited to firms with no reported investments in clean technology.
BUSINESS STRATEGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
(2022)
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Luomeng Zhang, Hongxing Ye, Fei Ding, Zuyi Li, Mohammad Shahidehpour
Summary: Physical constraints are necessary for integrating distributed energy resources, specifically PV, into the distribution network. The concept of hosting capacity (HC) is introduced to determine the maximum renewable energy generation that the distribution system can accommodate. This study proposes a hybrid adjustable power flow model to enhance the HC and effectively utilize flexible resources in a secure and cost-efficient manner. A novel hybrid relaxation approach is presented to convexify a two-stage AC model with variable uncertainty sets, and an iterative algorithm is developed to solve the problem. Case studies on a single-phase 141-node system and a three-phase 33-bus system demonstrate the promising performance of the proposed approach in terms of accuracy, convergence, and robustness.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SUSTAINABLE ENERGY
(2023)
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Energy & Fuels
Bilal Khalid, Mariusz Urbanski, Monika Kowalska-Sudyka, Elzbieta Wyslocka, Barbara Piontek
Summary: The study found that in Poland, environmental concern, ease of use, financial incentives, and relative advantage have a positive and significant influence on the adoption of renewable energy technology, while initial cost and risk, and trust for renewable energy do not significantly influence renewable energy adoption.
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Economics
Jorge Blazquez, Jose Maria Martin-Moreno, Rafaela Perez, Jesus Ruiz
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Economics
Tarek Atalla, Jorge Blazquez, Lester C. Hunt, Baltasar Manzano
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Economics
Edward Foster, Marcello Contestabile, Jorge Blazquez, Baltasar Manzano, Mark Workman, Nilay Shah
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Jorge Blazquez, Rolando Fuentes-Bracamontes, Carlo Andrea Bollino, Nora Nezamuddin
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2018)
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Patrick Bean, Jorge Blazquez, Nora Nezamuddin
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Economics
Jorge Blazquez, Lester C. Hunt, Baltasar Manzano
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Area Studies
J Blázquez, J Santiso
JOURNAL OF LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES
(2004)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)