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Grid integration and smart grid implementation of emerging technologies in electric power systems through approximate dynamic programming
Xiao, Jingjie - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
A key hurdle for implementing real-time pricing of electricity is a lack of con-sumers’ responses. Solutions to overcome the hurdle include the energy management system that automatically optimizes household appliance usage such as plug-in hybrid electric vehicle charging (and discharging with...
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Modelling Renewable Energy Economy in Ghana with Autometrics
Ackah, Ishmael; Asomani, Mcomari - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
Renewable energy consumption has been identified as a potential solution to the intermittent power supply in Ghana. Recently, a Renewable Energy Act has been passed which has a target of 10% of renewable energy component in Ghana’s energy mix by 2020. Whilst effort is been made to enhance...
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Looming Power Crisis in Andhra Pradesh
Motkuri, Venkatanarayana; Bhagavatula, Sridhar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Andhra Pradesh has been experiencing increasing energy deficits since 2004-05. Energy deficit has increased from a negligible 0.7% in 2004-05 to 6.6% in 2009-10 and to a whopping 22.8% in 2012-13 (as per load generation balance report 2012-13, Central Electricity Authority, 2013). On the whole,...
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The economics of U.S. ethanol import tariffs with a consumption mandate and tax credit
de Gorter, Harry; Just, David R. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This paper analyzes the impact of an ethanol import tariff in conjunction with a consumption mandate and tax credit. A … tax credit alone acts as a subsidy to ethanol producers, equally benefiting exporters like Brazil. If an import tariff is … imposed to offset the tax credit, world prices of ethanol decline by less than the tariff (unless oil prices are unaffected …
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An Expose of Bioenergy and its Potential and Utilization in Turkey
Erdogdu, Erkan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Turkey is heavily dependent on expensive imported energy resources (oil, gas and coal) that place a big burden on the economy. Air pollution is also becoming a great environmental concern in the country. In this regard, renewable energy resources appear to be one of the most efficient and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008557075
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Taxing CO2 and subsidising biomass. Analysed in a macroeconomic and sectoral model
Klinge Jacobsen, Henrik - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1999
objective of the study is to compare recycling of a CO2 tax revenue as a subsidy to biomass use as opposed to traditional … effect of a CO2 tax in combination with using the tax revenue for subsidies to biomass. The energy supply model is linked to … expansion technologies have been regulated. It is shown how a relatively small CO2 tax of 15 USD/tCO2 and subsidies to biomass …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113834
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The Market Impact and the Cost of Environmental Policy: Evidence from the Swedish Green Car Rebate
Huse, Cristian; Lucinda, Claudio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
switch between petrol (gasoline) and ethanol, we also account for fuel choice, which increases the cost of the program …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109735
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Sources of energy and the environment
Spash, Clive L.; Young, Andrew - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1994
Energy from fossil fuels have become dominant in the industrialised and industrialising economies of the world. However, fossil fuels are also recognised as heavily polluting and responsible for a range of modern environmental and health problems. Nuclear power is a similar conventional energy...
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Barriers and Incentives to Potential Adoption of Biofuels Crops by Smallholder Farmers in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa
Cheteni, Priviledge; Mushunje, Abbyssinia; Taruvinga, Amon - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The main objective of this study was to identify barriers and incentives that influence the potential adoption of biofuel crops by smallholder farmers. The study utilized a semi-structured questionnaire to record responses from 129 smallholder farmers that were identified through a snowballing...
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Estimating the value of additional wind and transmission capacity in the rocky mountain west
Godby, Robert; Torell, Greg; Coupal, Roger - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The expansion of wind-generation in the United States poses significant challenges to policy-makers, particularly because wind’s intermittency and unpredictability can exacerbate problems of congestion on a transmission constrained grid. Understanding these issues is necessary if optimal...
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