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Osmotic energy is one of the renewable energies. This osmotic energy source is easily obtainable all over the world where river water flows into the ocean or sea. In this article, Bahmanshir River in Iran which falls into the Persian Gulf was considered as selected place for modeling and design...
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Wind and solar resources are, by nature, spatially distributed and temporally variable. The process of siting generators that use these renewable resources and integrating them into the electricity system therefore raises different issues than the same process for combustion facilities does. A...
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Russian renewable energy policy has undergone changes following an establishment of targets for installed capacity and power production using renewable energy sources and the introduction of new capacity based support scheme for renewable energy. The forecasted amount of future renewable power...
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For the European Union's Member States 2001/77/EC Directive on the promotion of electricity produced from renewable energy sources in the internal electricity market determined targets for 2010 of 21% share of electricity from renewable energy sources in total electricity consumption. Particular...
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Various mechanisms used to support the wind energy industry around the world are reviewed with an aim to determining their effectiveness. From these results, a number of policies are put forward which aim to provide the most effective form of support for wind energy in the future.
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strategic consumers' behavior under the government's subsidy policies and its impact on the decisions of supply chain … suggest that governments should set appropriate subsidy policy to encourage PV industry development; the polysilicon module …
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Energy saving devices are installed in rural areas of many developing countries with Government subsidy. A linear … programming approach for the installation of these devices is described, either to maximize the energy saved for a given subsidy … amount or to find the minimum subsidy amount to achieve a given target of energy savings. Level of subsidy to be provided for …
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government background of firm executives weakens subsidy effects. In contrast, both key variables, government subsidies and an … manufacturing companies. Following from the empirical analysis, this paper proposes the suggestions: (1) Reform subsidy policies of …
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The Caribbean has the potential for a significant increase in windpowered electricity production. A number of wind farm projects are being implemented, making wind potentially the fastest growing renewable energy technology in the region over the next two decades. Wind promises to provide more...
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Countries around the world meet their electrical energy demand by utilizing fossil fuel based, nuclear or renewable energy sources. In contrary to fossil fuel based and nuclear energy sources which have negative environmental impacts and which increase energy import dependency, renewable energy...
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