geographical isolation energy is often imported from the mainland. Focusing on local energy use may help islands to identify … sustainable strategies and solutions. Islands in transition towards using more renewable energy sources are part of the project …

energy consumption, pollution emission, and economic growth for Nepal employing time series econometric methodology. Both …Solving the existing energy crisis, alleviating poverty, and mitigating the potential impacts of climate change have … garnered significant attention of policy makers in Nepal. In this context, this paper examines the causal relationships among …

policymakers and scholars concerned about Nepal as well as energy policy more generally. …Nepal has 83,000 MW (megawatts) of exploitable hydropower resources. Yet the country has tapped less than 650 MW of … this potential and hydroelectricity meets less than 1% of total national energy consumption. This article explores why …

-Poly) and single layer of polyethylene (PE), as greenhouse covers, on aubergine growth, productivity and energy requirement were …

Greenhouse gas reduction and energy saving are becoming two important issues in both industrialized and developing … countries, and policymakers are developing means to reduce total domestic energy use. We evaluate and compare the direct and the … indirect energy use both in the People's Republic of China (China) and the United States of America (US) by looking at a series …

cooling along with evaporative aftercooling has an obvious increase in the energy and exergy efficiency compared to the basic …

The advent of distributed renewable energy supply sources and storage systems has placed a greater degree of focus on … for forecasting next day demand in an LV network into a comprehensive distributed energy resource management algorithm. …

As agricultural system comprises natural processes that are ruled by thermodynamics, the energy utilization is well … energy use efficiency of the main crops during the 1992–2005 period in Inland Pampa (Argentina); 2) to evaluate the database … structure in terms of energy allocation; 3) to assess the changes in technical efficiency using frontier analysis and 4) to …

In this paper, energy and exergy analyses of the geothermal-based hydrogen production via thermochemical water … decomposition using a new, four-step copper–chlorine (Cu–Cl) cycle are conducted, and the respective cycle energy and exergy … performance are affected by reference environment temperatures, reaction temperatures, as well as energy efficiency of the …

mathematical model) and analyzed based on the first- and second law of thermodynamics. The energy and exergy analysis were carried …, application of microwave energy during fluidized bed drying enhanced the exergy efficiency of drying process. However, the results … showed that it was more efficient not to apply microwave energy at the first stage of fluidized bed drying process. The …