The two major pathways for energy utilization from biomass are conversion to a liquid fuel (<i>i.e.</i>, biofuels) or conversion to electricity (<i>i.e.</i>, biopower). In the United States (US), biomass policy has focused on biofuels. However, this paper will investigate three options for biopower: low...

This paper investigates an intergenerational conflict arising from renewable energy support (RES). Using a simple polito-economic overlapping generations (OLG) model, it can be shown that old individuals unambiguously lose from renewable energy support and therefore vote for its minimum level....

The LACCD has a goal of establishing net-zero energy operations across its nine campuses. The project faces many challenges, including limited open areas for installing solar PV, increasing energy consumption challenges associated with campus energy growth and the high cost of installing solar...

We examine the efficiency and distributional impacts of greenhouse gas policies directed toward the electricity sector in a model that links a “top-down” general equilibrium representation of the U.S. economy with a “bottom-up” electricity-sector dispatch and capacity expansion model....

We use a two-period model to investigate intertemporal effects of cost reductions in climate change mitigation technologies for the power sector. The effect of cost reductions for CCS depends on how carbon taxes are set. If there is no carbon tax in period 1, but an optimally set carbon tax in...

Since the end of 1993, when a new administration took the lead of the city of Palermo, the energy and environmental issues started to rank quite high in the priority list.

A nationally consistent wave resource assessment is presented for Australian shelf (300m) waters. Wave energy and power were derived from significant wave height and period, and wave direction hindcast using the AusWAM model for the period 1 March 1997 to 29 February 2008 inclusive. The spatial...

In energy dependent economies, energy consumption is often linked with the growth in Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Energy intensity, defined herewith, as the ratio of the total primary energy consumption (TPE) to the GDP, is a useful concept for understanding the relation between energy demand...

This paper presents a steady-state and transient theoretical exergy analysis of a solar still, focused on the exergy destruction in the components of the still: collector plate, brine and glass cover. The analytical approach states an energy balance for each component resulting in three coupled...

Renewable energy resources can contribute to sustainable development, but important barriers impede the realisation of their potential. In this paper we analyse two significant obstacles in Latinamerica: technology assessment for disconnected energy systems and organisational structures.