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Showing papers in "Energy Policy in 2015"


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TL;DR: In this paper, the implementation issues of the logarithmic mean divisia index (LMDI) decomposition methods in view of their dominance in IDA in recent years are discussed.

693 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the existence of the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis in Vietnam during the period 1981-2011 and established a pollution model by applying the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) methodology.

622 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the impact of environmental regulation on innovation and productivity in 17 European countries between 1997 and 2009, focusing on the manufacturing sectors of 17 countries and finding evidence of a positive impact of Environmental regulation on the output of innovation activity, as proxied by patents.

558 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, a literature review of the learning rates reported for 11 power generation technologies employing an array of fossil fuels, nuclear, and renewable energy sources is presented, including two-factor models relating cost to cumulative expenditures for research and development (R&D) as well as the cumulative installed capacity or electricity production.

402 citations


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TL;DR: Based on environmental Kuznets curve theory, a panel data model which takes environmental regulation and technical progress as its moderating factors was developed to analyse the institutional and technical factors that affect the path of low-carbon economic development as mentioned in this paper.

347 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the impact of public policy measures on renewable energy investments in electricity-generating capacity made by institutional investors, and investigated the influence of different policy measures in a sample of OECD countries to suggest an effective policy mix which could tackle failures in the market for clean energy.

276 citations


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TL;DR: A review of existing evidence on the effect of the tax on greenhouse emissions, the economy, and the distribution of income, and new evidence on public perceptions of the carbon tax is provided in this paper.

256 citations


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TL;DR: The findings indicate that the comparative cost efficiency of EV increases with the consumer's driving distance and is higher for small than for large vehicles, and policy measures that educate consumers about the TCO of different vehicle types based on their individual preferences are discussed.

237 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors draw on existing quantitative and qualitative evidence to outline three key problems with feedback, namely, limited evidence of efficacy, the need for user engagement, and the potential for unintended consequences, and conclude that existing in-home displays may not induce the desired energy-reduction response anticipated by smart metering initiatives.

232 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the Italian day-ahead wholesale electricity market, finding empirical evidence of the merit-order effect and showed that, over the period 2009-2013, solar production has generated higher monetary savings than wind production, mainly because the former is more prominent than the latter.

217 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed an Energy Justice Metric (EJM) that involves the calculation of several metrics: (1) a country (national) EJM; (2) an EJM for different energy infrastructure; and (3) a EJM which is incorporated into economic models that derive costs for energy infrastructure projects.

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TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper employed a newly developed non-radial directional distance function to evaluate China's regional energy and CO2 emission performance for the period 1997-2009, and analyzed the impact of China's market-oriented reform on China's region energy and carbon efficiency.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provided detailed information regarding energy efficiency, carbon emission performance and the potential of carbon emission reductions from regional perspectives, which may be important and useful for policy makers.

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TL;DR: In this article, the life-cycle emissions of natural gas compared to traditional petroleum-based fuels in the marine sector were analyzed and shown that natural gas as a marine fuel achieves climate parity within 30 years for diesel ignited engines, though it could take up to 190 years to reach climate parity with conventional fuels in a spark ignited engine.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the long and short run dynamics between electricity consumption and economic activities, using panel data of per capita electricity consumption of 160 countries for the period of 1980-2010, accounting for the degree of electricity dependence and the level of urbanization.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors sound the alarm that a significant build-out of efficient lighting and renewable energy technologies may be endangered by shortages of rare earths and rare earth permanent magnets.

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TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors formulated a multi-agent-based model to investigate the impacts of different carbon emissions trading (CET) designs in order to find the most appropriate one for China.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the future development of China's transportation sector in terms of service demands, final energy consumption, and CO 2 emissions, and their interactions with global climate policy.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used the global Malmquist-Luenberger (GML) index method to estimate and decompose the total factor CO2 emission performance (TFCEP), i.e., the environmentally sensitive productivity growth considering CO2 emissions as an undesirable output) of 32 industrial sub-sectors in Shanghai (China) over 1994-2011.

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TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors utilized logarithmic mean divisia index (LMDI) decomposition analysis to disentangle the carbon intensity into three influencing factors, including the emission coefficient effect, the energy intensity effect, and the structure effect.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined whether there is a volatility transmission between oil prices and financial stress by means of the volatility spillover test and found that the volatility transmission pattern has similar dynamics before and after the crisis and is characterized by higher and long-lived effects during the crisis.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed current water withdrawals and consumption for all energy processes and assessed the sector's compliance with the industrial water policy under different scenarios, considering potential future policy and technological changes.

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TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors developed a set of scenarios reflecting the possible future trajectories of energy consumption and Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions from China's freight transport sector, by establishing a bottom-up accounting framework.

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TL;DR: In this article, a panel of 29 Chinese provinces from 1995 to 2012 is utilized to predict China's coal consumption through 2020, and an inverted U-shaped Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) between coal consumption per capita and GDP per capita in China is detected.

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TL;DR: In this article, the main barriers in the diffusion of wind and photovoltaic (PV) solar power in the Greek electricity sector were discussed by drawing on the literature of technological innovation systems and system functions.

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TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors developed a multi-stage profit model to analyze the ETS-covered enterprises' product prices and emission reduction behaviors under different allocation rules, and found that the optimal product price policy is positively correlated with the price of the same kind products, consumers' low-carbon awareness and government subsidy.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a detailed description of risk finance in the green sector across 29 OECD and BRIICS countries over the period 2005-2010 and identify the role that policies might have in shaping high-growth investments in this sector.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the role of grassroots initiatives in the governance of urban energy systems and argue that such initiatives have an important impact on the local energy system, not just through their influence on the implementation of local energy policy but above all by their framing of a specific vision of a local energy transition.

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TL;DR: This article examined framing effects regarding unconventional oil and gas extraction using hydraulic fracturing and found that people are more supportive of the energy extraction process when it is referred to as shale oil or gas development versus fracking, and this relationship is mediated by greater perceptions of benefit versus risk.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that local development dynamics result from the interaction of various subsystems: science, politics, public administration, industry, finance, intermediaries and civil society.