Solar Energy, Public Utilities, and Economic Efficiency

economic optimization and energy consumption in tray dryers

دراین پروژه به بررسی مدل سازی خشک کردن مواد غذایی با استفاده از هوای خشک در خشک کن آزمایشگاهی نوع سینی دار پرداخته شده است. برای آنالیز انتقال رطوبت در طی خشک شدن به طریق جابجایی، یک مدل لایه نازک برای انتقال رطوبت، مبتنی بر معادله نفوذ فیک در نظر گفته شده است که شامل انتقال همزمان جرم و انرژی بین فاز جامد و گاز می باشد. پروفایل دما و رطوبت برای سه نوع ماده غذایی شامل سیب زمینی، سیب و موز در طی...

Evaluation of European lighting programmes Utilities finance energy efficiency

The beginning of least-cost utility planning in Europe is marked by 42 recent programmes offering financial incentives to encourage the use of energy-efficient compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs). Programmes have been conducted in six countries and manufacturers, retailers, and governments played active roles. Most of the programmes targeted residential consumers, but eight were available to comme...

The California Public Utilities Commission's Pilot Program to Exploit the Nexus of Energy Efficiency and Water Conservation

Economic Structure and Energy Savings from Energy Efficiency in Households

When an energy efficiency improvement occurs at the household level, several mechanisms, grouped under the name of the rebound effect, increase the available income and consumption, increasing the total energy consumption of the economic structure. The present research analyses the links between energy efficiency improvements in households, consumption, and the economic structure in an input-ou...

Restructuring Public Utilities for Competition

This report on restructuring public utilities draws on both submissions prepared by the countries themselves and from a large body of work by the OECD on regulatory reform – including the sectoral reviews carried out by the Competition Committee, the publications of the OECD’s Regulatory Reform Project, the work of the OECD’s TISP Committee in telecommunications, work by the International Energ...