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Extending the exergy concept to practitioners and policy makers is still a major challenge. Recently the “Canton of Geneva” in Switzerland introduced a new law governing the procedures of attribution of building permits for new or retrofitted city areas. Authorities were asked to define a...
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Adequate supply of cleaner, affordable, and reliable electricity is critical for the growth and prosperity of any economy. The Government of Ontario, Canada's largest province both by population and by electricity generation capacity, has enacted a long-term energy plan in 2007 to ensure...
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Renewable energy is defined as the contribution of renewables to total primary energy supply (TPES). Renewables include the primary energy equivalent of hydro (excluding pumped storage), geothermal, solar, wind, tide and wave sources. Energy derived from solid biofuels, biogasoline, biodiesels,...
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The present study examines the consequences of the planned coal phase-out in Germany according to various phase … as in the rest of Germany. The combination of two economic models offers the advantage of considering the phase-out from … other areas in Germany and demographic changes will partially compensate for increasing unemployment, but support from …
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the share of combined heat and power generation (CHP) in Germany from currently about 13% to 25% by 2020. In order to … Germany that a large portion of additional new CHP capacity will probably be built in the industrial sector. …
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The on-going energy transition in Germany aims at a power system dominated by RES (renewable energy sources) with more …
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This paper models the allocation of energy inputs in the US petroleum and coal products industry by allocating combustible fuel and renewable energy inputs among generic end-uses, including intermediate conversions through onsite power and steam generation. This analysis, called an energy...
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