Showing papers in "Energy Policy in 1997"

TL;DR: In this paper, experience curves are used to analyse the prospects for diffusion and adoption of renewable energy technologies, with special emphasis on wind turbines and photovoltaic (PV) modules.

TL;DR: The potential of energy conservation is considerable, yet the technically feasible and economically viable measures which could be taken are by no means fully exhausted as mentioned in this paper, which is referred to as the energy paradox.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the energy consumption of the iron and steel industry in seven countries (Brazil, China, France, Germany, Japan, Poland and the United States) for the period 1980-1991.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide an overview of economic issues involved in timing limitations on CO2 emissions from energy systems and highlight issues relating to technology availability, development and diffusion, and the inertia of energy systems, as being particularly important.

TL;DR: In this paper, a multicriteria decision-making (MCDM) approach is proposed to mitigate the problem of people feeling manipulated by a black-box methodology by asking each person to apply two or more MCDM methods and then resolve disagreements in the results in order to build understanding.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe a physically based model of the energy use of the housing stock (called BREHOMES) and explain how it has been used to develop two scenarios for energy use and carbon dioxide emissions.

TL;DR: In this article, a cross-country, cross-time comparison of energy efficiency developments in the manufacturing industry is presented for cross country, cross time comparison of fuel and electricity consumption, based on the use of physical production data as a measure of activity growth.

TL;DR: In this paper, structural differences in energy intensive industries and how to incorporate these differences in international comparisons of energy efficiency have been identified in the project "International Comparisons of Energy Efficiency".

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report on the findings of a recent IAEA expert meeting on the assessment of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the full "lifecycle" of hydropower.

TL;DR: In this paper, a survey of the results obtained over more than a decade for the external environmental costs of electricity supply options is presented, and the authors find that environmental valuation results vary over a very wide range of values yielding a variety of rank orderings for the different generating options.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the results of the energy indicator analysis of European manufacturing industries carried out in a recent European project and establish the general scope and limitations of the method when applied practically, especially in negotiation processes.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the methodological issues rather than comprehensive applications of cross-country comparisons and propose a set of key energy efficiency indicators for use in crosscountry comparisons.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify and discuss several issues and problems that arise in the construction of commonly-used industrial energy intensity indicators; in particular, they focus on issues that arise due to the use of alternative measures of output in intensity indicators.

TL;DR: Comparing the factors with those in Western countries which contain a population of increasing age, characteristics of the elderly and residential energy demand are clarified, and possible future subjects for study are proposed.

TL;DR: In this paper, a contingent ranking method is used to derive monetary value of power interruptions avoided, before arguing that a method which values the lost utility to consumers from outages is the most appropriate.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors apply community energy management (CEM) to four representative communities in British Columbia, Canada, over the period 1995 to 2010, and compare the results to a business-as-usual (BAU) scenario.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors concluded that CO 2 emissions will continue to rise in the future unless energy intensities and carbon content of energy can be decreased at an accelerated rate via policy changes, technological innovation and/or behavioural adaptation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors forecast the growth in car ownership to the year 2015 for Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries and a number of Asian economies, and estimates the implications of this growth on energy demand and emissions.

TL;DR: In this article, the International Energy Agency's (IEA) approach of modelling transport energy demand is presented, whenever possible, from the economic activity in the transport sector and not estimated directly, i.e., using one equation or (simultaneous) equation system.

TL;DR: The SAVE project as mentioned in this paper is a decentralised evaluation of energy efficiency situations in the various countries of the European Union (EEU), which aims to establish a consensus among countries for assessment which could serve as a reference for cross-country comparison.

TL;DR: In this article, a correlation of −0.926 was obtained between percentage heat utilization and specific fuel consumption in these experiments, and the health, environmental and economic aspects of potential options are discussed.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an economic analysis of waste-to-energy (WTE) plants in terms of the associated private production and social environmental costs, and show that WTE plants can compete on the energy production side with fossil-fuel-fired plants and on the waste management side with landfill disposal.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that analyzing the purchase of fuel-saving capital as though it were a standard investment in a physical asset obscures an important feature of the decision, which is that the consumer is actually choosing between two future cost streams, each of which is uncertain.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed factors influencing energy consumption pattern and emission levels in the transport sector of Delhi, and extrapolated total energy demand and the vehicular emissions, using a computer-based software called "Long Range Energy Alternative Planning" (LEAP) and the associated "Environmental Database (EDB)".

TL;DR: In this article, the authors deal with the methodologies and databases for comparative assessment of emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) from the full energy chain (FENCH) of different energy sources, which largely refers to an international experts workshop on the topic held in October 1994 in Beijing, which was the first meeting in a series of IAEA expert meetings on comparison of FENCH-GHG emission from energy sources.

TL;DR: A steady-state analysis performed using the DICE model supports the argument that large fractional reductions in CO2 emissions should be undertaken and argues that energy policy should be guided by the rho=0% results for both economic and ethical reasons.

TL;DR: In this article, the feasibility of greatly expanding the share of total energy consumption in developed countries that could be economically satisfied by biomass without fiscal subsidy support, given current technologies, and with plausible potential technologies ten years into the future.

TL;DR: The European Commission's ExternE Project has made major advances in the quantification of external costs of electricity as discussed by the authors, and some impacts cannot be valued, important conclusions are possible.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the impact of different ownership and financing structures on the cost of renewable energy, specifically wind power, using traditional financial cash flow techniques to examine the impact.

TL;DR: The SEECEM output, elasticity estimates and forecasts using the cointegration approach, as well as the methodology and analysis underlying them have been presented in this article, showing that natural gas and electricity are likely to take an increasing share of final user requirements at the expense of petroleum products and coal.