Led by energy and environmental policies the EU power sector is undergoing vast changes to achieve a market driven and sustainable future. Market based price discovery and different renewable support schemes are seen as key solutions in achieving the desired future production mix. Most liquid...

New Zealand has one of the highest asthma prevalence rates among developed countries and previous research attributes this partly to poor socioeconomic conditions in certain neighborhoods and to insufficient home heating in particular. International retrospective empirical studies suggest that...

Battery storage is generally considered an effective means for reducing the intermittency of electricity generated by solar photovoltaic (PV) systems. However, currently it remains unclear when and under which conditions battery storage can be profitably operated in residential PV systems...

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...

The cost of energy subsidies is large, and reduces the fiscal space available for public expenditure priorities, including education, health, and infrastructure. Libya’s ample hydrocarbon wealth will allow it to reform subsidies while protecting the poor. A gradual phasing out of...

This paper examines the influence of the cost of natural gas, coal and emission allowances on electricity prices. Quotes from the futures market are used rather than spot quotes, and panel data analysis is applied, with each futures contract being characterised by a given maturity. Data for the...

This paper analyzes the impact of electricity storage on the production cost of a power system and the marginal cost of electricity (electricity price) using a unit commitment model. Also real world data has been analyzed to verify the e®ect of storage operation on the electricity price using...

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...

The Iberian power systems went through important changes at the legal, regulatory and organizational levels in the last 20 years. One of the most relevant ones was the increasing penetration of distributed generation, namely wind parks, together with the development of the common market...

Based on the CGE model, this paper simulates the impact of electricity price adjustment on demand for electricity, and the simulation results show the range of electricity elasticities of different consumers. The elasticities of the high power-consuming sectors are relatively larger. However,...