Showing papers in "Energy Policy in 2009"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented a new formula for calculating when fossil fuel reserves are likely to be depleted and developed an econometrics model to demonstrate the relationship between fossil fuel reserve and some main variables.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors empirically examined the dynamic causal relationships between carbon emissions, energy consumption, income, and foreign trade in the case of Turkey using the time-series data for the period 1960-2005.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the linkage between economic development and environmental quality in BRIC economies and find that both economic and financial development are determinants of the environmental quality and environmental degradation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the long-run relationship between carbon emissions and energy consumption, income and foreign trade in the case of China by employing time series data of 1975-2005.

TL;DR: In this paper, the potential development of energy use for future residential heating and air conditioning in the context of climate change is assessed and the potential impacts on heating and cooling individually are considerable, particularly in South Asia, where energy demand for residential air conditioning could increase by around 50% due to climate change.

TL;DR: A proposed framework to effectively integrate the aggregated battery vehicles into the grid as distributed energy resources to act as controllable loads to levelize the demand on the system during off-peak conditions and as a generation/storage device during the day to provide capacity and energy services to the grid.

TL;DR: The evidence in favour of Jevons Paradox is far from conclusive, but it does suggest that economywide rebound effects are larger than is conventionally assumed and that energy plays a more important role in driving productivity improvements and economic growth than is normally assumed as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provided an overview of available indicators for long-term security of supply (SOS) and distinguished four dimensions of energy security that relate to the availability, accessibility, affordability and acceptability of energy.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present and estimate two empirical models of renewable energy consumption and income for a panel of emerging economies, and show that increases in real per capita income have a positive and statistically significant impact on per capita renewable energy usage.

TL;DR: In this article, the causal relationship between carbon dioxide emissions, energy consumption, and output within a panel vector error correction model for six Central American countries over the period 1971-2004 was examined.

TL;DR: In this paper, a three-tier analysis illustrates the changes in urban energy uses and CO 2 emissions in China, showing that the urban contributions make up 84% of China's commercial energy usage.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the intertemporal causal relationship between energy consumption and economic growth in Tanzania during the period of 1971-2006 and employed the newly developed autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL)-bounds testing approach.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the relationship between income and environmental quality for Turkey at two levels using a time series model using cointegration techniques and a panel data model using PM10 and SO2 measurements in Turkish provinces.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate the effectiveness of state energy programs with an empirical investigation of the linkage between state RPS policy implementation and the percentage of renewable energy electricity generation across states.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore both the promise and the possible pitfalls of the plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) and vehicle-to-grid (V2G) concept, focusing first on its definition and then on its technical state-of-the-art.

TL;DR: The evidence in favour of ''Jevons Paradox'' is far from conclusive, but it does suggest that economywide rebound effects are larger than is conventionally assumed and that energy plays a more important role in driving productivity improvements and economic growth than is conventional assumed as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, the causal relationship between electricity consumption, exports and gross domestic product (GDP) for a panel of Middle Eastern countries was examined and the policy implications are that for the panel as a whole these countries should invest in electricity infrastructure and step up electricity conservation policies to avoid a reduction in electricity consumption adversely affecting economic growth.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the impact of government incentives policies designed to promote the adoption of hybrid-electric vehicles (HEVs) and found that incentives that provide payments upfront also appear to be the most effective.

TL;DR: In this paper, the causal relationship between per capita energy consumption (PCEC) and per capita gross domestic product (PCGDP) for Tunisia during the 1971-2004 period was examined.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors surveyed 60 investment professionals from European and North American venture capital and private equity funds and asked them to assess the effectiveness of various policies, in terms of stimulating their interest to invest in innovative clean energy technologies.

TL;DR: The use of algae to capture carbon dioxide as a method for greenhouse gas mitigation is discussed in this article, where progress in growing algae and seaweeds with emphasis on their application for exhaust flue carbon recycling for possible generation of useful biomass.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors conducted extensive interviews with public utility commissioners, utility managers, system operators, manufacturers, researchers, business owners, and ordinary consumers to understand why wind, solar, biomass, geothermal and hydroelectric power sources are not embraced.

TL;DR: In this article, the intermittency problem is solved by integrating PV with compressed air energy storage (CAES) and by extending the thermal storage capability in concentrated solar power (CSP).

TL;DR: This paper exploits the multi-criteria methodology for the sustainable energy planning on the island of Crete in Greece, providing them the possibility of creating classifications of alternative sustainable energy alternatives.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the potential factors influencing the growth of transport sector carbon dioxide emissions in selected Asian countries during the 1980-2005 period by decomposing annual emissions growth into components representing changes in fuel mix, modal shift, per capita gross domestic product (GDP) and population, as well as changes in emission coefficients and transportation energy intensity.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the potential advantages of co-locating wind and energy storage to increase transmission utilization and decrease transmission costs, and examined compressed air energy storage (CAES) in three wind-by-wire scenarios with a variety of transmission and CAES sizes relative to a given amount of wind.

TL;DR: This paper found that the frequency of large blackouts in the United States has not decreased over time, that there is a statistically significant increase in blackout frequency during peak hours of the day and during late summer and mid-winter months (although non-storm-related risk is nearly constant through the year) and there is strong statistical support for the previously observed power-law statistical relationship between blackout size and frequency.

TL;DR: In this article, the estimation of energy use in office buildings in Malaysia and with the energy use of major equipment is concerned with estimating the energy intensity (EI) of office buildings, and it is estimated that 77,569 MWh can be saved and a huge reduction of emissions achieved through the application of advance glazing, compact fluorescent lamps (CFL), insulation, housekeeping, and by raising thermostat set point temperature of air conditioners, and reducing EI.

TL;DR: A scalable infrastructure model for CCS (simCCS) is introduced that generates a fully integrated, cost-minimizing CCS system that is able to aggregate CO2 flows between sources and reservoirs into trunk pipelines that take advantage of economies of scale.

TL;DR: In this paper, the current status and future plans for expansion of nuclear power, the advances in nuclear reactor technology, and their impacts on the associated risks and performance of nuclear energy.