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Most commentators expect improved energy efficiency and reduced energy demand to provide the dominant contribution to tackling global climate change. But at the global level, the correlation between increased wealth and increased energy consumption is very strong and the impact of policies to...
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A critical review of the literature highlighted the need for a new taxonomy encompassing the most relevant barriers … stemmed from previous studies, and accounting for interactions and independences of the barriers to avoid overlaps and … implicit interactions. Based on an extensive literature review the paper provides a novel approach for barriers to the adoption …
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This paper presents a mapping of knowledge management in renewable energy (RE) promoted through international and regional organizations with emphasis on gap analysis for the purpose of increasing RE deployment in developing countries. The knowledge mapping showed that most efforts are focused...
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This paper provides a review of funding needs and financing mechanisms for energy access in general and off-grid electrification in particular to find whether the funding for these activities has been adequate, whether sufficient funding is likely to be available to meet the needs of universal...
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technologies (LWT) for design and construction in terms of their implementation level and barriers in application on site. Through …
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, regulatory, and business barriers. Certain governments, most notable California, are making concerted efforts to overcome these … barriers in order to ensure distributed generation plays a part as the country meets demand while shifting to cleaner sources …
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Energy is directly related to the most critical social issues which affect sustainable development. Today there is a great incentive for countries to exploit renewable energies in order to slow down the changes in environment and to guard against future trends. This paper presents a review of...
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commercial growth. The main aim of this research is to identify the common barriers and ultimate success factors to implementing … optimization goals, which cause them to experience different types of challenges and barriers. However, the most common barriers … literature and overlying patterns recognized amongst the thirteen case studies. The most common technical barriers include …
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) region as a study area. The progress of implementation, barriers, and effective promotion models are discussed. Furthermore …
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better understanding the broad effect of imperfections and barriers that may alter the acceleration of such technologies. In … barriers have implications for energy policy and presents some lessons and potential actions that can aid policy makers, market …
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