Showing papers in "Energy Strategy Reviews in 2018"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify and review the barriers to CCS development, with a focus on recent cost estimates, and assess the potential of CCS to enable access to fossil fuels without causing dangerous levels of climate change.

TL;DR: Suggestions for future development of the open source energy system model Balmorel are outlined, such as including transport of local biomass as part of the optimisation and speeding up the model.

TL;DR: The PyPSA-Eur dataset as mentioned in this paper is the first open model dataset of the European power system at the transmission network level to cover the full ENTSO-E area, which contains 6001 lines (alternating current lines at and above 220kV voltage level and all high voltage direct current lines), 3657 substations, a new open database of conventional power plants, time series for electrical demand and variable renewable generator availability, and geographic potentials for the expansion of wind and solar power.

TL;DR: Key steps to consider when opening code and data are discussed, including determining intellectual property ownership, choosing a licence and appropriate modelling languages, distributing code andData, and providing support and building communities.

TL;DR: The Open Energy Modelling Framework (oemof) as discussed by the authors is an approach to energy system modelling, representation and analysis that provides a toolbox to construct comprehensive energy system models and has been published open source under a free licence.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors employ the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis in studying the impact of energy consumption, economic growth, and urbanization on carbon emissions in developing economies.

TL;DR: This paper provides an in-depth review of systematic techniques that address uncertainties for ESOMs: Monte Carlo analysis, stochastic programming, robust optimization, and modelling to generate alternatives to provide extra policy insights.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a set of scenarios quantified by the PRIMES energy systems model that have provided input to the Impact Assessment work accompanying the “Clean Energy for all Europeans” package, brought forward by the European Commission in November 2016.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare satellite-derived natural gas (gas) flaring data with the greenhouse gas reduction targets presented by those countries in their nationally determined contributions (NDC) under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Paris Agreement.

TL;DR: In the last decades, energy modelling has supported energy planning by offering insights into the dynamics between energy access, resource use, and sustainable development as mentioned in this paper, and especially in recent yea...

TL;DR: In this article, the impact of economic growth on energy intensity in European countries was analyzed and the empirical analysis showed that energy intensity is significantly reduced in response to economic growth even when the former is de-trended.

TL;DR: A mid-2017 survey shows that 28 energy system modeling projects have made public their source code, up from six in 2010, and none in 2000; three distinct yet overlapping drivers can explain this shift in paradigm towards open methods.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose an integrated model to represent distributed generation and demand, operations of electricity grids, infrastructure investments and generation dispatch, and macroeconomic interactions, and discuss methodologies for linking different type of models.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate the energy management in South Asia (SA) region, as it houses one-fourth of the world's total population with India, Pakistan and Bangladesh being the most populous countries.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors acknowledge C-EERNG and Cambridge Econometrics for general academic and technical support, and also acknowledge the UK's research councils: JFM, HP, PS, JV, NRE and PH acknowledge funding from the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) grant no NE/P015093/1.

TL;DR: In this article, the design and testing of coherent strategies for sustainable development is proposed based on six such models, with the aim to support the design, testing, and evaluation of coherent solutions for the sustainable development.

TL;DR: In this paper, a detailed economic feasibility analysis is conducted using a discounted cash flow economic model that considers current Turkish renewable energy support schemes under various discount rates, and the results of various model runs are compared to determine the best options for the proposed OWF investments to be profitable.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper developed two scenarios for this sector's energy consumption and CO2 emissions up to 2050 by inputting China's current macroeconomic, industrial de-capacity, energy efficiency, and policy requirements into a modified global change assessment model.

TL;DR: The FORECAST model as mentioned in this paper is a bottom-up simulation model used to develop long-term scenarios for the future energy demand of industry, services and household sectors, which can support strategic decision-making and can help to manage an efficient transition to a low-carbon energy system.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a cost-optimal car mix in France and Germany, based on their cost assumptions, grid-connected electric vehicles play no major role in the analyzed scenarios until 2030 but reach high market shares (over 90%) under stringent greenhouse gas mitigation targets until 2050.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the interrelationships among renewable energy and agricultural economics over the last decades, through a literature review, identifying, as a base for the future, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.

TL;DR: The implication of RE intermittency in system operation and also their impact on long-term planning is discussed and recent planning approaches from literature which aim to address these issues have been highlighted and a critical discussion regarding their usefulness is presented.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used time series data and employing the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) bounds test and Granger causality test based on Vector Error Correction Model (VECM), the results show that there are positive elasticities of coal, oil and natural gas consumption with respect to GDP and carbon intensity in long run.

TL;DR: A review of the challenges and opportunities for a nascent biojet fuel sector in Europe and options to stimulate the sector is presented in this article, where a clear and stable policy landscape for bio-jet fuel can help mitigate some of these issues.

TL;DR: In this article, the hydropower potential in Malaysia, current and future prospects of large and small-scale hydro-power development, and issues and challenges related to hydro power development are described.

TL;DR: It is concluded that bottom-up approaches, system-dynamics and agent-based models seem appropriate approaches to forecast the evolution of the demand for energy in the long-term; their potential capability to tackle the context-specific complexities of rural areas and the nexus causalities among energy and socio-economic dynamics is analyzed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on cost data in the US to identify the structure of shale gas costs, their evolution and drivers, with the conclusion that shale production costs are expected to remain relatively moderate until 2040, whereby the role of technological progress is deemed to be crucial.

TL;DR: The methodology serves as an integrated framework towards the evaluation of energy security, which directly refers to energy system resilience, and provides an energy security metric, whose main goal is to quantitatively estimate energy security for future development scenarios or pathways of the energy system in terms of its resilience.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the prospects for large-scale hydropower deployment in Ethiopia and investigate two distinct modeling approaches, and they find high projections for future hyd power generation: between 71 and 87 TWh/yr by 2050 in a stringent climate change control scenario in which Ethiopia contributes substantially to global efforts to reach the 2 C target of the Paris Agreement.

TL;DR: Improveing the tendency towards a versatile presentation of models, where the same set of information is available for all users while the way it is presented can be customised according to the background and interests of several stakeholder groups is thought to be a potentially significant contribution to the scientific work in the field of energy system analysis.