The long-term forecasting of energy supply and demand is an extremely important topic of fundamental research in Taiwan … due to Taiwan’s lack of natural resources, dependence on energy imports, and the nation’s pursuit of sustainable … development. In this article, we provide an overview of energy supply and demand in Taiwan, and a summary of the historical …

The areas of energy, water and food policy have numerous interwoven concerns ranging from ensuring access to services …

This article introduces a methodological framework to study institutions in European and Asian energy markets with a … comparative case study on the EU and east Asia. A distinction is made between informal and three types of formal institutions; and … their transaction cost reducing, order creating and ecological/climatic functions. The operation of energy markets is …

themselves to universal access to modern energy services by 2030, and international players such as the International Energy … scaling up rural energy access, drawing among others from over 70 energy access projects implemented by the EASE network of … national energy and development NGOs in eight countries and on experiences combining microfinance and (clean) energy access …

Expanding energy access to the rural population of India presents a critical challenge for its government. The presence … and delivery mechanisms. The framework entails establishment of rural energy access authorities and energy access funds … support of multi-stakeholder partnership. These institutions are expected to design, lead, manage and monitor the rural energy …

The provision of adequate, reliable, and affordable energy has been considered as a cornerstone of development. More … than one-third of the world's population has a very limited access to modern energy services and suffers from its various … negative consequences. Researchers have been exploring various dimensions of household energy use in order to design strategies …

The Indian Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) launched the Village Energy Security Programme (VESP) in 2004 … structured the program so that a village energy committee (VEC) ran a decentralized village program involving biomass gasifiers … produce electricity and thermal energy to meet the “total energy requirements” of rural communities. At the end of January …

In Ethiopia biomass is predominantly utilized for household energy needs often using inefficient rudimentary stoves … household energy use and energy substitution. The analysis applied the ordinary least square in the final stage estimation of … fuelwood and overall biomass energy consumption by using predicted shadow prices. The paper used Tobit model to estimate …

This paper is focused on the renewable energy targets set by China in its 12th National Development Plan 2011–2015. In … priority technologies, in which the country has a level of competitive advantage. For each of these energy sources, four … analyzed for all three energy sources. Both the average annual growth rate (AAGR), and the compound average growth rate (CAGR …

The objective of this study was to estimate the environmental impact of a home energy visit programme, known as RE …:NEW, that was delivered in London, in the United Kingdom. These home energy visits intended to encourage reductions in household … carbon emissions and water consumption through the installation of small energy saving measures (such as radiator panels, in …