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Electricity is perhaps the most versatile energy carrier in modern economies, and it is therefore fundamentally linked … to human and economic development. Electricity growth has outpaced that of any other fuel, leading to ever …. Electricity therefore deserves particular attention with regard to its contribution to global greenhouse gas emissions, which is …
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Recent statistics indicate that in 2005 the world consumed about 0.5 ZJ (ZJ = 10<sup>21 </sup>Joules) of energy. If one assumes that the future world population stabilizes at 10 billions, and the people consume a similar amount of energy per capita to that of the people in the presently developed...
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electricity markets. Electricity price forecasting is necessary for all market participants to optimize their portfolios. In this … paper we propose a hybrid method approach for short-term hourly electricity price forecasting. The paper combines … statistical techniques for pre-processing of data and a multi-layer (MLP) neural network for forecasting electricity price and …
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This study examines fuel switching in electricity production following the introduction of the European Union … examines 12 European countries using monthly data on fuel use, prices, and electricity generation during the first phase of the …
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California economy. A baseline scenario in which California relies on imported electricity to meet future demand is then compared …
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overcome this problem, generators are used in self-generation of energy, but this leads to an increase of electricity …-related expenses. This article assesses the impact of electricity self-generation on Cameroonian industrial companies. The model … electricity in industrial companies in Cameroon have increased five times due to electricity rationing and untimely power cuts …
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As part of its climate strategy, the EU aims at increasing the share of electricity from renewable energy sources (RES …-E) in overall electricity generation. Attaining this target poses a considerable challenge as the electricity sector is … “locked” into a carbon-intensive system, which hampers the adoption of RES-E technologies. Electricity generation …
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/support schemes: a constant feed-in tariff, a premium on top of the electricity market price (either a fixed premium or a variable … electricity with ever longer maturities enable market-based valuations to be undertaken. The model considers up to three sources … of uncertainty: the electricity price, the level of wind generation, and the certificate (ROC) price where appropriate …
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Transmission investments are currently needed to meet an increasing electricity demand, to address security of supply …
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using representative technologies in electricity generation, with a more detailed analysis on wind power, where … intermittence and stochastic availability of hard-to-store electricity will be factored into theoretical returns. …
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