process of Europeanization, identifying caveats in the security of energy supply. It then proposes a solution to the main …For decades after founding the ECSC (1951) the member states have relegated the issue of joint supranational energy …, European states gradually consolidated their position in favour of supranational energy policy development. This paper presents …

by analysing the consequences of becoming an exporter on a firm's energy consumption. We show both theoretically and … relatively large quantities of fuel decrease their energy use after exporting, perhaps by adopting more fuel-effcient technology …

export destinations of Europe and rest of the world (ROW) to establish whether a firm adjusts its energy use in response to a … decision to start exporting to a more (Europe) or a less (ROW) regulated destination. Although on average, no energy … adjustments are found for these destinations, focusing on the most polluting industries or the most energy-intensive firms reveals …

environmental policies that affect prices and energy demand are mainly effective in directing innovation by small specialized firms …

This paper describes the energy sector in the Mediterranean and MENA (Middle East and North Africa) countries. It first … analyses the production of energy by fossil and renewable sources and discusses the increasing demand in the area and its … consequences. It describes the policy frameworks to promote renewable energy as well as fossil-fuel subsidies, which are still …

Consumption of energy in the large computing system is an important issue not only because energy sources are depleting … computing platform which consumes enormous energy in the task execution. Energy-aware job scheduling, in the computational grid … energy concern, it is possible to save the energy consumed by the system in the task execution. The prime objective, in this …

energy consumption stills a critical element with limited-energy batteries, and the most principal cause of energy … conserve a good level of energy consumption and network lifetime. Therefore, it proposes a novel mechanism of locality …

the patient body and are used to monitor medical signs and forward them to medical servers. Proficient energy and Quality … the QoS requirements and the energy consumption. Their approach operates in an efficient computation way, where the sink … device manages the routing paths avoiding the sensors to be involved in computation and consequently on the energy …

The aim of the study was to investigate as to whether piezoelectric energy harvesting could be a viable contributor to … a source of renewable energy for the future. Here, a keyboard usage study was conducted using a data gathering computer … found it was capable of producing 650 µJ of energy per keystroke. The results from this study suggest piezoelectric …