The continuing increase in global greenhouse gas emissions and the likelihood that targets to limit the temperature increase to 1.5o above the level seen at the start of the industrial revolution will be missed has resulted in a growing focus on the development of all forms of carbon-free...

Given the frequent observation that the Philippine energy sector is complex, this study provides a structured review of issues in the sector. The structured review method is usually employed to systematically introduce readers to the complexities of a broad topic, such as the convolutions of a...

Electricity from renewable sources often cannot be generated when and where it is needed. To deal with these temporal and spatial discrepancies, one frequently proposed approach is to expand storage capacities and transmission grids. It is often argued that the two technologies substitute each...

Dem Projekt der Energiewende widmete sich die öffentliche Vortragsreihe des Hanse-Wissenschaftskollegs im Jahre 2012. Unter der Überschrift "Zukunftwerkschaft Deutschland: Die Energiewende" spannten die Referenten einen weiten Bogen von einer skeptischen Gesamtbetrachtung unserer...

Stromsteuer, der Emissionshandel sowie das Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz: Umweltpolitisch motivierte Gesetze bürden den Stromverbrauchern nicht unerhebliche Kosten auf. Dieser Beitrag greift die wichtigsten Diskussionen über Regulierungen der Stromwirtschaft auf. Dazu werden die Hauptmerkmale...

Energy security is a comprehensive concept and pursuing it as a developmental goal entails first and foremost a clearer understanding of what it means. This study proposes six broad elements in assessing energy security, namely, sufficiency, reliability, resilience, affordability, accessibility,...