Sustainable economic development requires the efficient production and use of energy; combined heat and power (CHP) systems contribute to both of these goals. While a recent executive order set a national goal of 40 GW of new industrial CHP by 2020, the deployment of CHP is challenged by financial, regulatory, and workforce barriers. Discrepancies between private and public interests can be min...

as the main actor of implementing energy saving and pollution abatement, corporations and their response to the policy are studied in this paper. we find that corporate properties as scale, ownership, current environmental performance on energy using and pollution, target market and listed situation have impact on the corporate responding conduct and progress. especially, current environmental ...

Improving energy efficiency of datacenters and studies of green energy integration into the datacenters are important research problems. Recent studies include design of power management mechanisms, scheduling policies, and efficient cooling methods. However, deploying a new policy in a datacenter and verifying its effects is time consuming and often infeasible. Therefore, it is important to ef...

In the past decades, the inappropriate subsidy policies in many nations have caused problems such as serious oversupply, fierce competition and subpar social welfare in the photovoltaic (PV) industry in many nations. There is a clear shortage in the PV industry literature regarding how dual supply chains compete and the key decision issues regarding the competition between dual PV supply chains...

The growth of the U. S. and global solar energy industry depends on a strong relationship between science and engineering innovation, manufacturing, and cycles of policy design and advancement. The mixture of the academic and industrial engine of innovation that is Silicon Valley, and the strong suite of environmental policies for which California is a leader work together to both drive the sol...

Recent research has proposed having a die-stacked last-level cache (LLC) to overcome the memory wall. Lately, spin-transfer-torque random access memory (STT-RAM) caches have received attention, since they provide improved energy efficiency compared with DRAM caches. However, recently proposed STT-RAM cache architectures unnecessarily dissipate energy by fetching unneeded cache lines (CLs) into ...