Showing papers in "Energy Policy in 2011"

TL;DR: In this paper, the feasibility of providing worldwide energy for all purposes (electric power, transportation, heating/cooling, etc.) from wind, water, and sunlight (WWS) was analyzed.

TL;DR: The areas of energy, water and food policy have numerous interwoven concerns ranging from ensuring access to services, to environmental impacts to price volatility as mentioned in this paper, and these issues manifest in very di...

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the changes to the electric power system required to incorporate high penetration of variable wind and solar electricity generation in a transmission constrained grid, where different mixes of wind, solar photovoltaic and concentrating solar power meet up to 80% of the electric demand.

TL;DR: In this paper, an economic partial equilibrium model of the global forest, agriculture, and biomass sectors with a bottom-up representation of agricultural and forestry management practices was used to analyze the indirect land use change (iLUC) of expanding agricultural areas dedicated to biofuel production.

TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of financial development on carbon emissions was explored using some econometric techniques, including cointegration theory, Granger causality test, variance decomposition, etc.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the dynamic causal relationships between carbon dioxide emissions, energy consumption, economic growth, trade openness and urbanization for the panel of newly industrialized countries (NIC) using the time series data for the period 1971-2007.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate the feasibility of providing all energy for all purposes (electric power, transportation, and heating/cooling), everywhere in the world, from wind, water, and the sun (WWS).

TL;DR: In this paper, the causal relationship between carbon dioxide emissions, energy consumption and real economic output using panel cointegration and panel vector error correction modeling techniques was examined for 28 provinces in China over the period 1995-2007.

TL;DR: This paper discusses the design and development of the Open Source Energy Modeling System (OSeMOSYS) in terms of a 'plain English' description, algebraic formulation, implementation, as well as a detailed description of the model inputs, parameters, and outputs.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the impact of financial development on energy consumption in a sample of 9 Central and Eastern European frontier economies and found a positive and statistically significant relationship between financial development and energy consumption when financial development is measured using banking variables like deposit money bank assets to GDP, financial system deposits to GDP or liquid liabilities to GDP.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the relationship between carbon emissions, income, energy consumption, and foreign trade in Pakistan for the period 1972-2008 and found that there is a quadratic long-run relationship between emissions and income, confirming the existence of Environmental Kuznets Curve for Pakistan.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a conceptual framework of consumer environmental behavior and its antecedents, and test hypotheses within the framework by means of a survey of green consumers, finding that general environmental beliefs do influence norms on environmental actions and prices, but only norms on price are correlated with environmental attitudes.

TL;DR: In this paper, a country-level quantitative assessment of the water-energy nexus in the MENA region is performed, and the results show that up to 9% of the total annual electrical energy consumption may be attributed to ground water pumping and desalination.

TL;DR: In this article, a case study of consumer adoption of hybrid vehicles, a green innovation that has been in the market since the late 1990s, is presented, based on a questionnaire survey, conducted in 2009 in collaboration with Toyota GB.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the impact of smart appliances and variable prices on electricity bills of a household and show that for households the savings from equipping them with smart appliances are moderate compared to the required investment.

TL;DR: In this article, the adoption and sustained use of improved cookstove are critical performance parameters of the cooking system that must be monitored just like the rest of the stove technical requirements to ensure the sustainability of their benefits.

TL;DR: The ability to economically produce natural gas from unconventional shale gas reservoirs has been made possible recently through the application of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, which has radically changed the energy future of the United States as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define a holistic approach to developing business models for electric mobility, which analyzes the system as a whole on the one hand and provides decision support for affected enterprises on the other.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors attempted to test the Environment Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis for 36 high-income countries for the period 1980 to 2005, using various panel data unit root and co-integration tests.

TL;DR: In this article, a large file of Texas-based 15-min data was used to show that while increasing wind generation does indeed tend to reduce the level of spot prices, it is also likely to enlarge the spot-price variance.

TL;DR: In this paper, three water-energy nexus cases in the United States are examined: (1) water and energy development in the water-scarce Southwest; (2) conflicts between coal development, environmental quality, and social impacts in the East; and (3) tensions between environmental quality and economic development of shale natural gas in the Northeast and Central U.S. These cases are related to Eastern, Central, and Western regional stakeholder priorities collected in a national effort to assess energy-water scenarios.

TL;DR: New Huadu Business School [09ZD050] and National Social Science Foundation of China [10JZD0018], Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [2010221051].

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a review on the latest developments on the main initiatives and approaches for the sustainability certification for biofuels and/or bioenergy, and the possible way forward for biofuel certification is discussed.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a total-factor framework to investigate energy efficiency in 23 developing countries during the period of 1980-2005 and found that Botswana, Mexico and Panama performed the best in terms of energy efficiency, whereas Kenya, Sri Lanka, Syria and the Philippines performed the worst during the entire research period.

TL;DR: In this article, a spatially explicit agent-based vehicle consumer choice model is developed to explore sensitivities and nonlinear interactions between various potential influences on plug-in hybrid vehicle (PHEV) market penetration.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors highlight the importance of shifting consumption to lower GHG intensive categories and investing in low carbon investments and estimate that the rebound effect for a combination of three abatement actions by UK households is approximately 34%.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper applied the panel unit root, heterogeneous panel cointegration and panel-based dynamic OLS to re-investigate the comovement and relationship between energy consumption and economic growth for 30 provinces in mainland China from 1985 to 2007.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored whether such an effect can also be demonstrated in a community co-ownership model and found that a significant difference in local acceptance exists between the two cases, and that the residents of Zschadras are consistently more positive towards local renewable energy and also towards renewable energy in general.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a new competitive offerings and end-user pricing system for smart grids, which will contribute to improving allocative and productive efficiency, while minimizing the risks of market power.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed an architectural design of smart meter, external control station, harmonic generator, and filter circuit to deject illegal consumers, and conserve and effectively utilize energy, where smart meters are designed to provide data of various parameters related to instantaneous power consumption.