energy and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations. The building-energy analysis software eQUEST and weather database … TMY2 were adopted to analyze the electric energy consumed by air conditioners and the analysis results were incorporated …

In this study, the energy utilization and environmental aspects of the rice processing industries in Bangladesh was … analyzed. Rice husk, a milling by-product of rice, is used as a source of thermal energy to produce steam for parboiling of raw … source of primary energy. In Bangladesh, the annual estimated energy used in 2000 for the drying of rice by sunshine was 10 …

industrialization and land urbanization. In the literatures, extensive studies have examined the impact of energy and emissions on the … the energy factors. The basic conclusions obtained are as follows: (1) the land and energy factors do have a statistically … performance in the sample period. The integrated efficiency is dominated by the land factor rather than energy ones; and (2) the …

This paper reviews the literature on the relationship between climate and the energy sector. In particular, we … primarily discuss empirical papers published in peer-reviewed economics journals focusing on how climate affects energy … expenditures and consumption. Climate will affect energy consumption by changing how consumers respond to short run weather shocks …

the properties of the energy industry with new market structures in terms of dynamic efficiency (the ability to ensure …

seen on the demand-side and the supply-side. Main demand-side policies could be the following: energy saving and efficiency … factors that could affect described policies could be the liberalization of international trade even in the energy sector and …

renewed academic interest in energy demand. In this paper we estimate, for the first time in Spain, an energy demand system … in different sub-samples to capture varying responses to energy price changes by households living in rural, intermediate …

Base station sites (BSSs) powered with renewable energy sources have gained the attention of cellular operators during …) of telecom operators due to the possibility of on-site renewable energy harvesting. In this paper, the green BSSs power ….</i> As an example, yearly sensing results for three different BSS configurations powered by solar and/or wind energy are …

<i>Ex-post</i> evaluations of energy policies in Malaysia between 1970 and 2010 were conducted. The developments of … energy policies in Malaysia were traced from the early 1970s with the introduction of the country’s first energy …-related policy all the way to 2010 with the country’s first endeavour towards a biobased energy system. Analyses revealed that many …

This paper extends prior research on energy inefficiency in China by utilizing a unique shadow price framework … allocation in 30 Chinese provinces. We estimate the shadow price for energy input using the framework of production, and use the … ratio of the shadow price to the market price to describe energy utilization. Using Chinese provincial-level data from 1998 …