Showing papers in "Energy Policy in 2006"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed energy efficiency of 29 administrative regions in China for the period 1995-2002 with a newly introduced index, the index of total-factor energy efficiency (TFEE), which divides the target energy input by the actual energy input.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the reasons for the particularly rapid spread of two such technologies in Germany, wind turbines and solar cells, and trace this diffusion to the nature of the policy instruments employed and to the political process which led to the adoption of these instruments.

TL;DR: In this paper, empirical data are assembled to populate a simple model identifying the most important factors affecting the cost of photovoltaics (PV), and the results indicate that learning from experience, the theoretical mechanism used to explain learning curves, only weakly explains change in the most significant factors, such as plant size, module efficiency, and cost of silicon.

TL;DR: In this article, the long-run and causal relationship between electricity consumption per capita and real gross domestic product (GDP) per capita for 17 African countries for the period 1971-2001 using a newly developed cointegration test proposed by Pesaran et al. (2001) and using a modified version of the Granger causality test due to Toda and Yamamoto (1995).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared the performance of the English and Wales RO (Renewables Obligation) and the German EEG (Erneuerbare Energien Gesetz), with a particular focus on how they reduce risk for generators.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a supra-national approach for bio-energy development, demonstration and deployment trajectories for key options such as biomass integrated gasification/combined cycle and advanced biofuel concepts, developing an international biomass market allowing for international trade and an integral policy approach for Bio-energy incorporating energy, agricultural, forestry, waste and industrial policies.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors estimate the magnitude of these external costs and benefits for the case of renewable technologies in Scotland, a country which has set particularly ambitious targets for expanding renewable energy.

TL;DR: In this article, a new Granger non-causality testing procedure was applied to re-investigate the relationship between energy consumption and income in 11 major industrialized countries and found that energy conservation may hinder economic growth in the latter five countries.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared the performance of four promising bio-fuels (methanol, ethanol, hydrogen, and synthetic diesel) in the short-term or the longer-term (2030).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed energy intensity trends for the major OECD nations since 1973, considering how much of the overall reduction in E/GDP was due to energy efficiency improvement and how much due to structural change, and the bulk of the energy efficiency policies and programs adopted in Japan, United States, and Western Europe, commenting on their effectiveness and energy savings impacts where possible.

TL;DR: In this article, the causality relationship between gross domestic product (GDP) and energy consumption in the six countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) was investigated, and empirically results indicate a unidirectional causality running from GDP to energy consumption.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the relative importance of energy policy and green power marketing in shaping the renewable energy market and concluded that the German case can be used for policy design and market development in other countries.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the hydrogen futures literature is presented, using a sixfold typology to map the state of the art of scenario construction, and the authors explore the expectations embodied in the literature, through the 'answers' it provides to questions about the future of hydrogen.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the contribution of renewable portfolio standards (RPS), fuel generation disclosure rules, mandatory green power options, and public benefits funds to wind power development in the United States.

TL;DR: In this paper, the causal relationship between electricity consumption and economic growth among the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) 4 members, namely Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand, using modern time-series techniques for the period 1971-2002.

TL;DR: The empirical part of this study is based on a survey of 600 Swedish households and a number of interviews where questions about residential energy behaviour and possible policy instruments for cha... as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this paper, a case study, using householders in central England, investigates householder attitudes towards characteristics of solar systems and identifies some of the barriers to adoption of solar power.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss aspects of RD targeted efforts to promote deployment of new energy technologies and highlight how public R&D and deployment efforts must work in tandem to expand the portfolio, and realize the potential, of new and improved energy technologies.

TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of US-China trade on national and global emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) was examined and the authors suggest that the export of US technologies and expertise related to clean production and energy efficiency to China could be a "win-win" strategy for both countries for reducing their trade imbalance and mitigating global CO2 emissions.

TL;DR: The security of energy supply to the EU is examined in the context of two storylines as discussed by the authors, namely, Regions and Empires and Markets and Institutions, and it is shown that these storylines have a significant impact on the development of the energy market, on the way in which energy supply may be secured and on the effect and applicability of the several types of instruments available.

TL;DR: A review of the technical literature on alternative fuel vehicles (AFVs) and discussions with experts in vehicle technology and energy analysis is presented in this paper, based on analysis provided to the bipartisan National Commission on Energy Policy.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors empirically quantified the marginal costs of energy efficiency investments (i.e., additional insulation, improved window systems, ventilation and heating systems and architectural concepts).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors extended the arguments surrounding carbon lock-in elaborated in Unruh (Energy Policy 28 (2000) 817; 30 (2002) 317) to countries currently undergoing industrialization.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined some classical indicators which are often found in national and international energy studies in the 1970s and 1980s and described the recent developments in using the index decomposition analysis to give an economy-wide composite energy efficiency index based on a bottom-up approach.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the relationship between low-carbon objectives and the strategic security of electricity in the UK electricity system, and show that low carbon objectives are uniformly associated with greater long-term diversity in UK electricity generation.

TL;DR: In this article, detailed measurements for 11 “Passive House” projects with more than 100 dwelling units from the EU-funded demonstration project CEPHEUS (Cost Efficient Passive Houses as EUropean Standards) are presented.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that rural electrification alone is unlikely to resolve the energy access problem because of low penetration of electricity in the energy mix of the poor, despite several initiatives and policies to support poor households.

TL;DR: In this paper, consumer motives for adopting photovoltaic systems (PV systems) from a behavioural-theoretical perspective are discussed within a framework of underlying needs and the time sensitivity of various outcomes.

TL;DR: Sustainability of biomass based fuel use requires that in biomass production erosion and water usage do not exceed addition to stocks of soil and water and that levels of nutrients and organic matter in soils do not decrease.

TL;DR: In this article, the impact of environmentally based market failure constraints on the adoption of renewable energy technologies through quantification in financial terms of the externalities of electric power generation, for a range of alternative commercial and almost-commercial technologies.