Showing papers in "Energy Policy in 2010"

TL;DR: A survey of the recent progress in the literature of energy consumption and economic growth causality nexus can be found in this paper, which highlights that most empirical studies focus on either testing the role of energy (electricity) in stimulating economic growth or examining the direction of causality between these two variables.

TL;DR: In this paper, the relationship between renewable energy consumption and economic growth for a panel of twenty OECD countries over the period 1985-2005 within a multivariate framework was examined, where a panel cointegration and error correction model was employed to infer the causal relationship.

TL;DR: In this article, the impact of financial development on energy consumption in a sample of emerging countries was examined using a generalized method of moments estimation technique, and the empirical results showed a positive and statistically significant relationship between financial development and energy consumption when financial development is measured using stock market variables like stock market capitalization to GDP, stock market value traded to GDP and stock market turnover.

TL;DR: In this article, the causal relationship between carbon dioxide emissions, renewable and nuclear energy consumption and real GDP for the US for the period 1960-2007 was explored, using a modified version of the Granger causality test.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors test the Environment Kuznet's Curve (EKC) hypothesis for 43 developing countries and find that carbon dioxide emissions have decreased with a rise in income.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored how UK householders interacted with feedback on their domestic energy consumption in a field trial of real-time displays or smart energy monitors, and identified significant implications for future research and policy in this area.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an overview of seven different ways to structure the remuneration of a feed-in tariffs policy, divided into two broad categories: those in which remunerance is dependent on the electricity price, and those that remain independent from it.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined dynamic causal relationships between pollutant emissions, energy consumption and output for a panel of BRIC countries over the period 1971-2005, except for Russia (1990-2005).

TL;DR: In this article, an analytical job creation model for the US power sector from 2009 to 2030 is presented, synthesizing data from 15 job studies covering renewable energy (RE), energy efficiency (EE), carbon capture and storage (CCS) and nuclear power.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine how interpersonal and social trust is implicated in the different meanings given to community in renewable energy programs and projects, and in the qualities and outcomes that are implied or assumed by taking a community approach.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the relationship between economic growth and pollutant emissions for a small and open developing country, Tunisia, during the period 1961-2004, using time series data and cointegration analysis.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present evidence that eco-driving can reduce fuel consumption by 10% on average and over time, thereby reducing CO 2 emissions from driving by an equivalent percentage, and a sophisticated, multi-dimensional campaign, going well beyond what has been attempted thus far, will be required to achieve such savings on a large scale, however, involving education, regulation, fiscal incentives, and social norm reinforcement.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reviewed the national strategy plans of the world's leading biofuel producers, focusing on blending targets, support schemes and feedstock use, with particular attention devoted to blending targets and support schemes.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that German renewable energy policy, and in particular the adopted feed-in tariff scheme, has failed to harness the market incentives needed to ensure a viable and cost-effective introduction of renewable energies into the country's energy portfolio.

TL;DR: In future evaluations of health impacts, clinical outcomes could be more comprehensively augmented with measures that extend beyond physical health, including measures reflecting quality of life, changes in patterns of social engagement and daily routine, and their concomitant impacts on mental wellbeing.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the panel data of energy consumption (EC) and economic growth (GDP) for 51 countries from 1971 to 2005, and divided the countries into three groups: low income group, lower middle income group and upper middle income groups.

TL;DR: The Energy Cultures framework as mentioned in this paper is a conceptual framework that aims to assist in understanding the factors that influence energy consumption behavior, and to help identify opportunities for behaviour change, while drawing also from lifestyles and systems thinking.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared battery electric vehicles (BEV) to hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles and hydrogen fuel cells plug-in hybrid vehicles (FCHEV) and found that both the BEV and FCHEV have significantly lower lifecycle costs.

TL;DR: This article examined the causal relationship between carbon dioxide emissions, energy consumption, and real output within a panel vector error correction model for eleven countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States over the period 1992-2004.

TL;DR: In this article, the economic potential and environmental implications of second-generation bio-fuels from a variety of various feedstocks were reviewed, and it was shown that cost is a major barrier to increasing commercial production in the near to medium term.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined short-term linkages in the aggregate as well as sector by sector levels in Europe using different econometric techniques and found that the reactions of stock returns to oil price changes differ greatly depending on the activity sector.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the methodology and data used to determine greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions attributable to ten cities or city-regions: Los Angeles County, Denver City and County, Greater Toronto, New York City, Greater London, Geneva Canton, Greater Prague, Barcelona, Cape Town and Bangkok.

TL;DR: The status of world oil reserves is a contentious issue, polarised between advocates of peak oil who believe production will soon decline, and major oil companies that say there is enough oil to last for decades as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the cointegration and causality between carbon emissions and economic growth for India using ARDL bounds testing approach complemented by Johansen-Juselius maximum likelihood procedure in a multivariate framework by incorporating energy supply, investment and employment for time span 1971-2006.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the long-run cointegration of these prices simultaneously with their multivariate short-run interactions and found no direct long run price relations between fuel and agricultural commodity prices, and limited if any direct short run relationships.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provided an assessment of these policies and programs to begin to understand issues that will play a critical role in China's energy and economic future, and concluded that activities undertaken in China will have a significant influence on the global effort to reduce the growth, and later the absolute quantity, of greenhouse gas emissions.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed recent North American studies of demand response strategies and concluded that the most effective strategy is a critical peak price (CPP) program with enabling technology to automatically curtail loads on event days.

TL;DR: The authors explored the environmental attitudes of a population in close proximity to a wind farm development, determining the influence that proximity has on wind energy attitudes, and determining if the Not-In-My-Backyard (Nimby) phenomenon is appropriate for explaining human perceptions of wind energy.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used fixed effects vector decomposition (FEDV) to investigate the influence of traditional energy sources (oil, coal, and natural gas) and CO2 emissions on renewable energy deployment.

TL;DR: The assessment of future global oil production presented in the IEA's World Energy Outlook 2008 (WEO 2008) is divided in to 6 fractions; four relate to crude oil, one to non-conventional oil, and t....