Recent years have seen the successful development and deployment of a range of small scale renewable energy systems. Driven in part by improving technical capability and by ambitious carbon emissions reduction targets, there has been the beginning of a shift towards a more distributed energy...

Energy is directly related to the most critical social issues which affect sustainable development. Today there is a great incentive for countries to exploit renewable energies in order to slow down the changes in environment and to guard against future trends. This paper presents a review of...

The majority of our energy demand is satisfied by the combustion of fossil fuels, such as coal, oil and gas. This has resulted in our fossil fuel resources being vastly reduced and has increased the carbon dioxide content in the atmosphere which is causing global warming. The 2020 European Union...

This review deals with the state-of-the-art of waste tyre pyrolysis for the first time in literature. Pyrolysis has been addressed as an attractive thermochemical process to tackle the waste tyre disposal problem while allowing energy recovery. Pyrolysis enables the separation of carbon black...

In a world where fossil fuel prices are subject to steep price hikes and where green house emissions are endangering the planet, dependence on non-renewable energy sources becomes more urgent. In this paper a technical feasibility and economic viability study of a new technology that utilizes...

In this article, the possibility to increase the use of renewable energy for the production of heat, electricity, the use of biofuels for transport and energy policy is analyzed. In Lithuania the energy demand is constantly increasing, the increase in traditional fuels for energy generation...

Renewable energy technologies׳ systems are major components of the strategy to reduce harmful emissions and deal with depleting energy resources. It is necessary to deploy renewable energy sources in the best possible way such that cost is minimized and generation is maximized. In this paper,...

The objective of this research is to analyze the effectiveness of wind power and solar energy to supply electricity to the grid during peak demand periods in the Northeast of Brazil. To achieve this objective, a comparative analysis is performed between the electricity load curve for a typical...

The benefits of promoting renewable energy are regularly claimed to be energy security, climate change mitigation and job creation. While the first two benefits are generally accepted, the impact of renewable energy on employment is still disputed. This paper presents a discussion of the various...

Energy is essential to life and human society cannot surviva without a continuous supply of energy. However, although energy has brought about significant changes in standards and life-styles, its generation, processing and consumption is also a source of both localized pollution and a major...