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We study systemic risk and dependence between oil and renewable energy markets using copulas to characterize the dependence structure and to compute the conditional value-at-risk as a measure of systemic risk. We found significant time-varying average and symmetric tail dependence between oil...
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The renewable energy sector has accomplished remarkable growth rates over the last decade. This paper examines the dynamics of excess returns for the WilderHill New Energy Global Innovation Index, which lists firms in the renewable energy sector and is used as a global benchmark. We propose a...
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This paper presents a review of the optimization techniques and strategies applied to wind turbine performance optimization. The topic is addressed by identifying the most significant objectives, targets and issues, as well as the optimization formulations, schemes and models available in the...
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renewable sources and to utilise the scarce biomass resources as efficiently as possible. Using the advanced energy systems … to district heating systems is most feasible in terms of total socioeconomic costs and biomass consumption. It is … socio economy and business economy as well as an unsustainable level of biomass consumption. Therefore, the regulatory …
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Recent reports published by the International Energy Agency and U.S. Department of Energy, regarding the global energy outlook for the first three decades of the XXI century, warns of global trends on energy demand, increasing dependence on energy imports, coal use and volume emissions of...
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Purpose Emergency humanitarian medical cold chains (HMCCs) depend heavily on their supporting energy services due to end-to-end temperature requirements in volatile disaster situations. Most energy sources powering emergency HMCCs are fossil-based due to well established processes, regardless of...
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Purpose – This teaching case seeks to explain the main aspects of Acciona's sustainability strategy and the process of transformation of the company after the new CEO took office in 2004. It also aims to present some possible difficulties of maintaining such strategies in the new economic and...
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Purpose – The Government's aim to curb CO 2 emissions from energy production has resulted in the growth of a new environmental feature; the wind turbine. Whilst this may help tackle climate change, there is concern that the visual and aural presence of these turbines could have a negative...
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