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...

We present a bilevel optimization approach to designing effective and efficient incentive policies for promoting renewable energy. The effectiveness of an incentive policy is its capability to achieve a goal that would not be achievable without it. Renewable portfolio standard is used in this thesis as the policy goal. The efficiency of an incentive policy is measured by the amount of intervent...

In this paper, we analyse the financial viability and economic sustainability implications of government programs for the development of renewable energy sources, explicitly considering that consumers take environmental issues into account. We envisage a broad policy strategy for the future, which we label the “World Sustainable Scenario”, and we quantify the inter-temporal resource requirement...

This study investigates the dynamic impact of green energy investment and consumption on carbon emissions in China from 1995 to 2020. It employed Bootstrap Autoregressive Distributed Lag method examine short long-run relationship. The findings indicate that renewable decrease emissions, whereas non-renewable economic growth increase shorter longer periods. long-term reduction may imply transiti...

Article history: Received 1 April 2011 Received in revised form 21 June 2012 Accepted 12 August 2012 Available online 30 August 2012 Notwithstanding their many environmental, economic and social advantages, renewable energy technologies (RE) account for a small fraction of the world's primary energy supply. One possible cause for this limited diffusion is that private investments in the RE sect...

Community-owned Renewable Energy (CORE) in Australia is still in its infancy, but has grown rapidly in recent years, particularly in rural areas; allowing the benefits from renewable energy projects to be widely shared. However, significant barriers stand in the way of many projects getting off the ground: such as finding suitable sites and getting a fair price for electricity. This paper aims ...

The high prices currently achieved in the acquisition of nonrenewable energy for electricity production and the low levels of energy efficiency in the housing sector are the national situation, which leads the Portuguese government to encourage the acquisition, the installation and the use of technologies which exploit indigenous and renewable energy. This study presents an application that was...