Exploring pathways for transitioning to clean energy to achieve climate change mitigation goals is essential. Addressing the economic impact of decarbonization options requires strategic planning to determine cost-effective CO2 mitigation strategies. The assessment of marginal CO2 abatement cost...

The Campania Region has one of the highest renewable energy potentials in Italy. Despite this high potential, the lack of an integrated energy strategy has allowed for deregulated exploitation of the resources of the territory, e.g. surplus of wind energy occurs in Campania due to the large wind...

Most publicly available wind data are aggregated to a temporal resolution of 30 or 60 min. This is adequate for some purposes, such as large-scale wind integration studies. However, the consequent loss of high-frequency power fluctuations from the data can significantly impact analysis on local...

The transition towards more sustainable energy systems poses new requirements on energy system models. New challenges include representing more uncertainties, including short-term detail in long-term planning models, allowing for more integration across energy sectors, and dealing with increased...

This work presents an Integrated Assessment Model (IAM) developed for Ecuador, the so-called Ecuador Land Use and Energy Network Analysis model (ELENA). This model includes six distinctive sectors of the economy and displays the four geographic regions composing the country. The model enables to...

Clean energy technological innovations are widely acknowledged as a prerequisite to achieving ambitious long-term energy and climate targets. However, the optimal speed of their adoption has been parsimoniously studied in the literature. This study seeks to identify the optimal intensity of...

The East African Community EAC (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and South Sudan) is still challenged by energy poverty for its socio-economic development. A continuous and fast growing energy demand is expected in this region due to varied factors, such as; high population growth-rate,...

Companies in the manufacturing, service and transport infrastructure sectors will play a key role in the sustainable transition of the energy system implementing innovative technologies at full industrial scale. However, developing long-term investment plans is a challenging task, complicated by...

The goal of this research is supporting strategic decision makers from countries that share and/or are impacted by cross-border energy generation projects. The methodology includes a case study of the energy surplus not used within the international agreement between two countries in...

This paper surveys the literature relevant for comparing centralized and decentralized wholesale electricity markets. Under a centralized design, producers submit detailed cost data to the system operator the day before delivery, who then decides how much to produce for each generation unit....