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Green energy
Olteanu, Victor - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Strategic plans in the energy sector have the overall objective of the use of renewable energy, especially wind power, hydroelectricity, biomass intending a considerable increase in the share it has in total energy production. Thus, chase is moving towards an economy based on low carbon...
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Looming Power Crisis in Andhra Pradesh
Motkuri, Venkatanarayana; Bhagavatula, Sridhar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Andhra Pradesh has been experiencing increasing energy deficits since 2004-05. Energy deficit has increased from a negligible 0.7% in 2004-05 to 6.6% in 2009-10 and to a whopping 22.8% in 2012-13 (as per load generation balance report 2012-13, Central Electricity Authority, 2013). On the whole,...
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Critical Analysis of Stakeholders Involvement and Environmental Impact: Conversion of Crude Oil Based Auto Rickshaws to CNG in Ahmedabad
Sapovadia, Vrajlal; Patel, Sweta; Patel, Akash - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
increasing mobility for all residents while reducing transportation greenhouse and air pollution emissions and improving safety …
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Do production subsidies have a wage incidence in wind power?
Silva, Dakshina G. De; McComb, Robert P.; Schiller, Anita R. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Employment in electricity generation from renewable resources has expanded rapidly in the US and in Texas during the last decade. Availability of the Production Tax Credit has been an important driver of this growth. Using a fully-disclosed establishment-level employment and payroll data set for...
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Does the price of oil interact with clean energy prices in the stock market?
Managi, Shunsuke; Managi, Shunsuke; Okimoto, Tatsuyoshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
In this paper, we analyze the relationships among oil prices, clean energy stock prices, and technology stock prices, endogenously controlling for structural changes in the market. To this end, we apply Markov-switching vector autoregressive models to the economic system consisting of oil...
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A Contribution of Foreign Direct Investment, Clean Energy, Trade Openness, Carbon Emissions and Economic Growth to Energy Demand in UAE
Sbia, Rashid; Shahbaz, Muhammad; Hamdi, Helmi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper investigates the relationship between foreign direct investment, clean energy, trade openness, carbon emissions and economic growth in case of UAE covering the period of 1975Q1-2011Q4. We have tested the unit properties of variables in the presence of structural breaks. The ARDL...
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Assessing Impact of Large-Scale Distributed Residential HVAC Control Optimization on Electricity Grid Operation and Renewable Energy Integration
Corbin, Charles - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Demand management is an important component of the emerging Smart Grid, and a potential solution to the supply-demand imbalance occurring increasingly as intermittent renewable electricity is added to the generation mix. Model predictive control (MPC) has shown great promise for controlling HVAC...
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Maternal prenatal substance use and behavior problems among children in the U.S.
Sen, Bisakha; Swaminathan, Shailender - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Prenatal exposure to smoking and alcohol-use is found to be correlated with various adverse consequences for children … Longitudinal Survey (CNLSY). Specifically, we investigate whether prenatal cigarette use and alcohol-use affect children’s behavior … behavior problems are driven by underlying confounding factors, but prenatal alcohol-use may indeed cause behavior problems in …
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VIH/Aids and alcohol: re-examination of the relation from african data
Kodila-Tedika, Oasis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This article re-examines the relationship alcohol and VIH/Aids, while resorting to another methodological approach that … utilized by Fisher et al., (2007) and Kalichman et al. (2007). We confirm a direct relation of alcohol to the AIDS. …
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Alcohol and corruption
Azia-Dimbu, Florentin; Kalonda-Kanyama, Isaac; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This study had for objective to measure the link which exists between the alcohol and the corruption, or more exactly …
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