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Estimating technological progress of emerging technologies such as renewables and clean coal technologies becomes important for designing low carbon energy systems in future and drawing effective energy policies. Learning curve is an analytical approach for describing the decline rate of cost...
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Torrefied biomass represents a high quality renewable energy commodity that can be used to substitute fossil fuels such as coal. However, densification processes such as pelletisation is necessary to improve the tradability of “low-dense” torrefied biomass. In this work, two process pathways...
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Decentralized electrification using local resources can reduce regional disparity in rural and remote areas in terms of supply reliability and cost, as well as promote income generation. In this research an optimization energy model is introduced for designing decentralized energy systems using...
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This study examines the economics of energy-efficiency strategies for reducing CO2 emissions in the residential sector in Japan from the perspective of regional characteristics. For this study, the residential sector in Iwate prefecture was selected as representative of rural areas in Japan. In...
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This study examines the economics of energy-efficiency strategies, for reducing CO2 emissions in a residential sector in Japan, from the perspective of regional characteristics. For this study, the residential sector in the Iwate prefecture was selected as representative of rural areas in Japan....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008913580