Showing papers in "Energy Policy in 2016"

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conceptualise energy use from a capabilities perspective, informed by the work of Amartya Sen, Martha Nussbaum and others following them, and suggest a corresponding definition of energy poverty, as understood in the capabilities space.

TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of economic and financial development on carbon emissions in a small emerging economy was explored using ARDL approach to investigate the long run relationship between carbon emissions and a set of economic variables, an Error Correction Model (ECM) to capture the short run dynamics, Granger causality in an augmented VAR framework to check the causality direction, and variance decomposition based on an estimated vector error correction model (VECM).

TL;DR: In this article, the impacts of economic development, energy consumption, trade openness, and urbanization on the carbon dioxide, waste water, and waste solid emissions in China were investigated.

TL;DR: In order to increase the attractiveness of electric vehicles (EVs), packages of policy incentives are provided in many countries as discussed by the authors, however, it is still unclear how effective different policy incenti...

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the long and short run relationships among carbon emissions, energy consumption and economic growth in India at the aggregated and disaggregated levels during 1971-2014.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors re-examine the asymmetric impact of financial development on environmental quality in Pakistan for the period 1985Q1 to 2014Q4 and generate a comprehensive index of financial developments using Bank- and Stock market-based financial development indicators.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provided an extensive analysis of this charge event data for public charging infrastructure, including data from fast charging infrastructure and additionally a limited quantity of household data, and found that EV users prefer to carry out the majority of their charging at home in the evening during the period of highest demand on the electrical grid indicating that incentivisation may be required to shift charging away from this peak grid demand period.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors study changes in the aggregate carbon intensity (ACI) for electricity at the global and country levels and reveal several challenges in reducing global CO2 emissions from the electricity production sector although the reduction potential for the sector is known to be great.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that estimates for the technical potential of renewable energy vary by two orders of magnitude, and argue that values at the lower end of the range must be seriously considered, both because their energy return on energy invested falls, and environmental costs rise, with cumulative output.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows, income and energy consumption on CO 2 emissions using panel data of five ASEAN countries over 1981-2010 were investigated.

TL;DR: The main drivers for PV technology transfer from the global innovation system to China are global market formation policy, international mobilization of talent, the flexibility of manufacturing in China, and belated policy incentives from China's government as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relationship between trade openness and the environment in a cross-country panel, using the emission of particulate matter (PM10) as the basic indicator of environmental quality.

TL;DR: However, while the verdict on nuclear was unequivocal with a final phase-out date of 2022, the share of coal in the electricity market did not decrease and the amount of carbon dioxide released into the air slightly increased from 2011 to 2013.

TL;DR: In this article, the heterogeneity of motivations that drive individuals to participate in community renewable energy projects and the underlying explanatory factors behind this, as well as the implications for their level of engagement in initiatives are studied.

TL;DR: Li et al. as mentioned in this paper investigated the influence of government subsidies on enterprises' research and development (R&D) investment behavior, particularly in China's renewable energy sector, and found that government subsidies have a significant crowding out influence on enterprises's R&D investment behavior and that the influence is further moderated by the attributes of enterprise ownership.

TL;DR: In this article, the potential of European regions to solar power generation and its comparison with recent European Union (EU) incentives for the development of this renewable energy source was assessed using a multi-criteria assessment (MCA) supported by Geographical Information System (GIS) to combine already existing information on solar radiation with other geographical factors such as slope, land use, urban extent and population distribution, as well as proximity to the power grid to generate a suitability map for photovoltaic (PV) power plants across the EU at high spatial resolution.

TL;DR: In this article, an inverted U-shaped EKC relationship between economic growth and CO2 emissions in the long run was found to be 7729 USD per capita, which lies outside of the sample period.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors study the economic evolution of nuclear power construction and find evidence of much milder cost escalation in many countries, including absolute cost declines in some countries and specific eras.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the extent to and ways in which the rebound effect is considered in policy documents and analyse thirteen specific policy pathways for rebound mitigation, and conclude that an appropriate policy design and policy mix are key to avoiding undesired outcomes, such as the creation of additional rebound effects and environmental trade-offs.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the current use of public revenues generated through both carbon taxes and cap-and-trade systems, and identify various trends in systems' use of carbon revenues in terms of the total revenues collected annually per capita in each jurisdiction.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provided emission projections for China up to 2030 given current policies and a selected set of enhanced policies, and compared the results with projected CO2 emission trajectories that are consistent with the announced target for 2030.

TL;DR: In this paper, the necessary steps in creating power systems with the flexibility needed to maintain stability and reliability while relying primarily on variable energy resources are provided in the form of a comprehensive overview of policies, technical changes, and institutional systems.

TL;DR: In this paper, an integrated life cycle sustainability assessment of the electricity sector in Turkey, considering environmental, economic and social aspects, is presented for the first time, and a multi-criteria decision analysis has been carried out to identify the most sustainable options assuming different stakeholder preferences.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors improved the logarithmic mean divisia index technique, which includes energy density and energy consumption intensity, to explore the driving factors of carbon emission intensity (CI) in 29 Chinese provinces from 1995-2012.

TL;DR: Newbery et al. as discussed by the authors built on and extended work under contract ENER/B1/491-1/2012, published as Newbery et. al. (2013).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the relationship between CO2 emissions and economic growth in Algeria, taking into account energy use, electricity consumption, exports and imports, and the validity of the EKC hypothesis was tested by using the Autoregressive Distributed Lag model extended to introduce the break points.

TL;DR: In this paper, three scenarios are defined, which present different EV charging alternatives, in terms of charging power and charging station ownership and accessibility, and a case study is presented for each scenario and the required charging station usage to have a profitable business model is calculated.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the effects of oil price shocks on the real GDP of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries using the nonlinear cointegrating autoregressive distributed lag (NARDL) model.

TL;DR: In this paper, a comprehensive research in the field of energy poverty is undertaken in an attempt to highlight the great vulnerability of Greek households on energy poverty, in the middle of a severe economic crisis.

TL;DR: In this paper, an analysis of structural decomposition of changes in CO2 emissions in Spain by using an enhanced Structural Decomposition Analysis (SDA) supported by detailed Input-Output tables from the World Input Output Database (2013) (WIOD) for the period 1995-2009 is presented.