Showing papers in "Energy Policy in 2013"

TL;DR: This article reviewed the connection between these two issues and concluded that limits to availability of fossil fuels will set a limit for mankind's ability to affect the climate, however, this limit is unclear as various studies have reached quite different conclusions regarding future atmospheric CO2 concentrations caused by fossil fuel limitations.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors make a case for examining energy transition as a geographical process, involving the reconfiguration of current patterns and scales of economic and social activity, and provide a conceptual language with which to describe and assess the geographical implications of a transition towards low carbon energy.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of financial development, economic growth, coal consumption and trade openness on environmental performance using time series data over the period 1965-2008 in case of South Africa.

TL;DR: In this article, a set of statistical approaches for extracting end-use and/or appliance level data from an aggregate, or whole-building, energy signal is presented. And the authors explain how appliance-level data affords numerous benefits and why using the algorithms in conjunction with smart meters is the most cost-effective and scalable solution for getting this data.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a meta-analysis of information-based energy conservation experiments conducted to date, and find that pecuniary feedback and incentives lead to a relative increase in energy usage rather than induce conservation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the objectives, origins and development of these groups across the UK, their activities and their networking activities as a sector, along with the opportunities and threats presented by wider socioeconomic and political contexts, are examined.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore social barriers to the adoption of smart homes through the analysis of expert views and public attitudes, including how these vary by expertise, life-stage and location.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report on how, over a 12-month period, UK householders interacted with feedback on their domestic electricity consumption in a field trial of real-time displays or smart energy monitors.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the contributions of foreign direct investment (FDI) net inflows to clean energy use, carbon emissions, and economic growth in 19 nations of the G20 from 1971 to 2009.

TL;DR: The main purpose of as discussed by the authors is to capture the main features of the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC)-concept, which leads many researchers from the early 1990s to assume that each economy should focus on its growth, and any environmental problems will be eventually eliminated by the process of economic growth.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors test for the short and long-run relationship between economic growth, carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and energy consumption, using the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) by employing both the aggregated and disaggregated energy consumption data in Malaysia for the period 1980-2009.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used panel data to test the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis for 12 Middle East countries during the period 1990-2008 by employing recently developed panel data methods.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that using the word "acceptance" may present some constraints for the theoretical advancement of this area of research and to the implications that may be taken from it to the wider society.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated whether positive or perverse side effects dominate by exemplifying the impact of a water conservation campaign on electricity consumption, showing that residents who received weekly feedback on their water consumption decreased their water use but increased their electricity consumption by 5.6%.

TL;DR: Li et al. as discussed by the authors proposed a non-radial DEA model with the slacks-based measure (SBM) to analyze the environmental efficiency of China's transportation sector, which showed that most of the provinces in China do not have an eco-efficient transportation industry.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze practices and perceptions of stakeholders on including users in smart grids experiments in the Netherlands, using a Strategic Niche Management framework, and show that there is a clear trend to pay more attention to users in new smart grid projects.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an overview of key 1G sustainability challenges, assess their relevance for 2G, and highlight the challenges for policy in managing the transition, and address limitations of existing sustainability assessments by exploring where challenges might emerge across the whole system of bioenergy research and policy.

TL;DR: The authors presented an updated overview of the prevalence of European fuel poverty in the context of the accession of numerous former social states, and rising fuel prices, with particularly high levels of fuel poverty found in Eastern and Southern European states.

TL;DR: This article analyzed the relationship between industrial structural transformation and carbon dioxide emissions in China and found that the first-order lag of industrial structural adjustment effectively reduced the emissions; technical progress itself did not reduce the emissions, but indirectly led to decreasing emissions through upgrading and optimization of industrial structure.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated utilities' business models for renewable energies by analyzing two generic business models based on a series of in-depth interviews with German utility managers and found that utilities have developed viable business model for large-scale utility-side renewable energy generation.

TL;DR: In this paper, a meta-frontier non-radial directional distance function is proposed to model energy and CO2 emission performance in electricity generation, which allows for the consideration of the group heterogeneity of electricity generation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the validity of the pollution haven hypothesis in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries using a multivariate framework, and the results indicated that energy consumption and GDP growth are the source of pollution in the GCC countries and not the foreign direct investment inflows.

TL;DR: In this article, two different approaches to deal with emissions embodied in a country's imports can be found and the implications of the results obtained using different imports assumptions are not the same.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate stakeholders' opinions on relevant regulation, infrastructure investment, R&D incentives, and consumer incentives for electric vehicles in two countries (UK and Germany) where the automobile industry has been historically significant.

TL;DR: In this article, the role of general values and beliefs in shaping attitudes towards the potential development of commercial wind energy projects in or near respondents' communities was explored based on a survey of residents of coastal Michigan.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the state-of-the-art for GEN IV NPPs technologies (VHTR, SFR, SCWR, GFR, LFR and MSR) providing a comprehensive literature review of different designs, discussing the major R&D challenges and comparing them with other advanced technologies available for the middle and long-term energy market.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide an insight into consumer engagement in smart grid projects in Europe and reveal that projects involving consumers are characterised by the pursuit of two main objectives: gaining deeper knowledge of consumer behaviour (observing and understanding the consumer) and motivating and empowering consumers to become active energy customers.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a case study of Ontario's feed-in tariff policies between 1997 and 2012 to analyze how the political process affects renewable energy policy design and implementation.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relationship among economic growth, carbon emissions and energy consumption at the aggregate and disaggregate levels and found that carbon emissions increase with the increase in per capita income.