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addition, this study has compiled a list of sustainability indicators which may be of use for policy makers and designers while …Any hydropower project whether mega, large or small is to be weighed for sustainability at the time of its inception …. Without proper sustainability assessment, the project may face many problems during its construction or/and operational phase …
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number of sustainability criteria covering these issues have been developed. However, there has been little effort given to … the development of a mechanism to evaluate compliance of biofuel systems with the sustainability criteria available … paper intends to extend the existing discussions on the sustainability of biofuels by providing a critical review of …
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identify and prioritize the indicators to develop a decision-support framework for the sustainability assessment in energy … indicators and twenty-five indicators for assessing the sustainability in energy planning and management. In second phase, fuzzy … Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) is used for prioritizing of indicators to develop an integrated sustainability assessment …
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robust information. Energy access indicators enable measurement and monitoring of the progress of energy access expansion … constitute energy access and energy access indicators. The paper further reviews briefly the different types of energy access … indicators and analyses access to modern energy in Ghana as measured using the energy access indicators employed in Ghana. The …
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This paper introduces a method for evaluating the sustainability performance of energy technologies applied in rural … electrification, using the multivariate technique called Principal component analysis (PCA).The sustainability is assessed in terms of … energy technology sustainability index (ETSI). The ETSI has been used for assessing the sustainability performance of ten …
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The paper provides a comprehensive empirical assessment of American stimulus policies aimed at renewable energy (RE) technologies. We use an indicator-based methodology to assess progress with respect to energy, environmental and socio-economic issues resulting from RE stimulus programs linked...
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Multi-criteria analyses (MCAs) are often applied to assess and compare the sustainability of different renewable energy … sustainability assessments, which typically involve a range of conflicting criteria featuring different forms of data and information … develop and apply a MCA for a national-scale sustainability assessment and ranking of eleven renewable energy technologies in …
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Energy is the building block of modern civilization and a prerequisite for sustainable development. Global energy consumption will increase by 36% with an annual growth of 1.6% from year 2011 to 2030, comprising 88% fossil fuel share. Bangladesh is a developing country in the Southeast Asia,...
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sustainability in building industry. …
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The large-scale deployment of renewable energy sources (RES) is an important aspect of decarbonising the energy supply, and represents a key part of the German Energiewende. However, significantly increasing the share of renewable power in the energy mix implies coping with the natural...
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