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The German market has seen a plunge in wholesale electricity prices from 2007 until 2014, when base futures prices dropped by more than 40 percent. In this paper we determine the fundamental components of electricity futures prices and quantify their impact on the price drop as well as on...
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and authorization competences and a lack of public acceptance of new grids. As response to these barriers, Germany has …
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In the objective of reaching the “nearly zero-energy buildings” target set by the European Union, municipalities cover a crucial role in advocating and implementing energy-efficient measures on a local scale. Based on a dataset of 322 municipalities in Northern Italy, we carried out a...
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the energy innovation process. Thus, this paper deals with a broad literature review on innovation drivers and barriers …
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innovation and analyze the effects of R&D on product and process innovations in EII in Korea. The Probit model is adopted to … estimate the effects of eight determinants in the Korea Innovation Survey 2008 data. The results of this study demonstrate that … innovation, while another determinant, R&D intensity, only has a strong and positive effect on process innovation in EII. Because …
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The UK energy technology innovation system (ETIS) has undergone wholesale remaking in recent years, in terms of its … influence has grown, the role and style of energy innovation has shifted from long term niches to the shorter term mainstream …
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of the market in which enterprises operate, as well as product and process innovation are factors affecting barriers to …
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's RE technology innovation and problems thereof. It finds that national science and technology programs are the main aspect … of China's RE technology innovation, and most of R&D funds for the RE technology come from China's three main national … programs. Besides, the overall expenditures on RE technology innovation constitute only a small proportion of China's total …
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requires further technology improvements and cost reductions along the value chain. We survey policies in Germany and China and … the industrial actors they can encourage to pursue innovation, including deployment support, investment support for … these nations has not been sufficiently tied to innovation incentives, and R&D support has been comparatively weak. The …
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Europe has played the role of a green hegemon on the global arena for several decades. By exploring its green transition in the electricity industry, the article discusses whether Europe is on track with regard to delivering sustainable development in a core sector at home.
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