Showing papers in "Energy Policy in 2018"

TL;DR: This article explored the relationship between economic growth and CO2 emissions in the so-called European Union 5 (EU-5) countries (Germany, France, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom) for the 1985-2016 period.

TL;DR: Just transition as mentioned in this paper is a new framework of analysis that brings together climate, energy and environmental justice scholarships, and it was originally coined as a term that was designed to link the promotion of clean technology with the assurance of green jobs.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify both technical and non-technological barriers impending biogas dissemination in India using decomposition analysis and show that type and importance of barriers vary strongly between the two types of barriers due to the difference in technology maturity, feedstock availability and quality, supply chain, awareness level and policy support.

TL;DR: This paper examined the determinants of green investment in China from the perspective of public appeal by employing economic and econometric models with a panel dataset for 30 provinces over the period from 1998 to 2014.

TL;DR: In this paper, a conceptual framework and quantitative method for quantifying the causes of cost changes in a technology, and apply it to PV modules, is presented, which can be adapted to retrospectively or prospectively study many technologies, and performance metrics besides cost.

TL;DR: Zhang et al. as mentioned in this paper examined the factors that may affect the public's purchasing intention of electric vehicles via a survey and proposed an electric vehicle purchasing intention model based on the literature review and the reality in China.

TL;DR: In this paper, the impacts of GDP, trade structure, exchange rate and FDI (foreign direct investment) inflows on China's carbon emissions from 1982 to 2016 and verifies the validity of EKC (Environmental Kuznets Curve) hypothesis for China.

TL;DR: In this article, a multi-level perspective on sociotechnical systems and an integration of energy justice at the model's niche, regime and landscape level is explored, arguing that inattention to social justice issues can cause injustices whereas attention to them can provide a means to examine and potential resolve them.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify the socio-demographic, dwelling, and environmental factors that have the strongest influence on the daily energy-saving behaviours, the adoption of energy efficient appliances and the energy efficient retrofit investments made by British households.

TL;DR: It is found that fuel costs are a critical obstacle to widespread adoption, fuel stacking is the prevailing norm as few households stop using firewood when adopting LPG, and both users and non-users have highly positive views of LPG as a convenient and clean cooking fuel.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the politics of US state and federal policy supporting wind and solar in the electricity sector and biofuels and electric vehicles in the transportation sector, and find similar patterns across these sectors: immature technology is underestimated or misunderstood; large energy bills provide windows of opportunity for enactment; once enacted, policies are extended incrementally; there is increasing politicization as mature technology threatens incumbents.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate the effect of monetary and non-monetary incentives on the adoption of electric vehicles, and find that every $1000 offered as a rebate or tax credit increases average sales of EVs by 2.6%.

TL;DR: In this article, the role of state investment banks (SIBs) in low-carbon energy projects is investigated and empirical evidence on the role played by three SIBs in addressing the barriers to financing low carbon energy projects; the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC), the Kreditanstalt fuer Wiederaufbau (KfW) and the Green Investment Bank (GIB) in the UK.

TL;DR: In this article, a holistic methodology and platform to support the resilient and sustainable planning at city region level for multiple sectors was developed for applications in urban energy systems and the energy-water-food nexus, combining agent-based modelling to simulate and forecast resource demands on spatial and temporal scales, with resource network optimization, which incorporates capital expenditures, operational costs, environmental impacts and the opportunity cost of food production foregone.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors found that the daily energy-saving behaviors of urban residents in China are mostly motivated by "altruism", and they put forward some specific policy suggestions from three aspects: policy effectiveness, information behind the big data and the publicity by the Internet.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors of these two major studies jointly reconcile their previous conclusions by providing clarity on how methodologies to manage battery degradation can reliably extend battery life, and also review the associated technology and policy implications of better managing battery use in vehicle and electrical grid applications.

TL;DR: Based on data from 30 provinces in China, this article built a coordination degree model and a coupling coordination degree (CCDM) for a carbon emission-urbanization system (CUS) that explores how to achieve low-carbon development during a rapid urbanization phase.

TL;DR: In this article, the causal interdependence between energy consumption, economic growth, and CO 2 emissions in Ghana from 1960 to 2015 was examined by using the Toda-Yamamoto and Granger causality tests.

TL;DR: In this article, a set of conceptual tools for thinking about community renewable energy (CRE) have been proposed, which can explicitly articulate what is meant by CRE, what forms of activity are pursued and why.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors quantitatively analyzed the socioeconomic drivers of PM2.5 through assessment on Stochastic Impacts by Regression on Population, Affluence and Technology (STRIPAT), based on the panel data of 79 developing countries over 2001-2010.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed demand for 12 metals in global climate mitigation scenarios up to 2060 and quantified the impacts on demand of different assumptions on improvements and technological mix.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared what homeowners identified as motives and barriers for installing photovoltaic panels in Sweden in 2008-2009 and in 2014-2016, and found that financial incentives had become an important motivation by 2014−2016, while the investment cost remained a barrier even though it has been reduced over the years.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the five-year total cost of ownership (TCO) for conventional, hybrid, and electric vehicles in 14 U.S. cities from 2011 to 2015.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the effects of energy-related regulations, taxes, voluntary agreements, and subsidies on the creation of green energy products, and analyze through which channels policy affects green product innovation and which factors mediate the observed effects.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors empirically analyzed the relations between community energy membership and attitudes toward renewable energy and onshore wind energy and found that members of community energy initiatives have significantly more positive attitudes towards renewable energy than non-members.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors carried out a comparative study on the decoupling trends of economic growth and energy consumption for both developed and developing countries in past five decades (1965-2015).

TL;DR: In this article, a literature review explores whether the natural gas system might help enable a transition to longer-term use of hydrogen in transportation, and two transition strategies are reviewed: adapting natural gas refueling infrastructure for future use with H2 and blending renewable hydrogen into the NG system.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors quantified the potential for alternative jet fuel (AJF) to reduce aviation's CO2 emissions by assessing: the availability of AJF feedstock; AJF volumes that could be produced from that feedstock, and the lifecycle emissions of AJFs compared to petroleum-derived jet fuel; and the number of bio-refineries and capital investment required to achieve the calculated emission reductions.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated whether renewable energy consumption raises GDP in Turkey and found that GDP is not related to renewable consumption and there is no causality between GDP and renewable consumption in Turkey.

TL;DR: Internal combustion engines will be simpler in the future as a result of electric motor coupling and battery electric vehicles are faced with a certain challenges currently and should be adopted in smaller vehicles at first.