In recent years, due to the rise in petroleum prices and greenhouse gas emissions, renewable energy has been recommended as a power source for different types of facilities. For the period 2010 to 2020 the European Commission has established three key objectives related to climatic change and energy sustainability, such as reductions of CO2 emissions, increases in the use of renewable energy, a...

Many countries have been triggered to provide a new energy policy which promotes renewable energy applications because of public awareness to reduce the global warming and rising in fuel prices. Renewable energy sources such as solar energy are green and promising energy in the future for widespread use. Combining renewable energy sources with battery makes electricity supply more economical an...

DFID Using AMCs to promote green mini-grids in Tanzania ii Executive Summary This annex considers how Advance Market Commitments (AMCs) might be used to promote the development of green mini-grids in Tanzania. It is one of two case studies Vivid Economics has undertaken to complement its report on the economics of AMCs. The second case study concerns the development of micro-Concentrated Solar ...

This article presents the results of the first large-scale mail survey of non-residential green power customers in the United States. The survey explored the motivations, attitudes, and experiences of 464 business, non-profit, and public-sector customers that have voluntarily opted to purchaseFand frequently pay a premium forFrenewable electricity. Particular attention in this article is paid t...

Harvesting energy from nature (solar, wind etc.) is envisioned as a key enabler for realizing green wireless networks. However, green energy sources are geographically distributed and the power amount is random which may not enough to power a base station by a single energy site. Burning brown energy sources such as coal and crude oil, though companied with carbon dioxide emission, provides sta...

renewable energy sources (res), especially wind power plants, have high priority of promotion in the energy policies worldwide. an increasing share of res and distributed generation (dg), should, as has been assumed, provide improvement in reliability of electricity delivery to the customers. paper presented here concentrates on electricity storage systems technologies and applications pinpoint...

Decarbonizing the electricity system has become one of the most important and urgent societal challenges for the coming years. Germany’s so-called Energiewende, the energy transition from fossil to renewable energy sources, is well advanced. However, experience show that there is both an urgent and probable long-lasting need for cooperation between disciplines such as economics, engineering, so...

Seawater reverse osmosis desalination (SWRO) requires less energy compared with the distillation method and thus is an important technology except Middle Eastern countries whereenergy costs are higher. Recently, even Middle Eastern countries where the distillation method is still a major technology, have begun adopting the RO method in new desalinationplants in line with government ...