In the past few years, social research has been examining what contributes to the attitude-behaviour gap in people's responses to large-scale renewable energy technologies. The NIMBY explanation for the gap has long dominated that area of research, but has also been criticised. Alternative proposals to NIMBY were advanced, but it is still evident that some of those maintain presuppositions of N...

The growth of population, rising fossil fuel prices (limited and decreasing day by day), pollution problem due to use of fossil fuels and increasing electrical demand are important factors that encourage the use of green and renewable energy technologies. Among the different renewable energy technologies, hydro power generation (large and small scale) is the prime choice in terms of contributio...

This paper compares planning results of the electricity and water generation inventory up to year 2030 in the State of Kuwait. Currently, the generation inventory consists of oil and gas fired technologies only. The planning study considers two main cases. The first case, Reference case, examines a generation inventory based on oil and gas fired generation technologies only. The second case exa...

Much attention in recent years has turned to the potential of behavioural insights to improve the performance of government policy. One behavioural concept of interest is the effect of a cash transfer label on how the transfer is spent. The Winter Fuel Payment (WFP) is a labelled cash transfer to offset the costs of keeping older households warm in the winter. Previous research has shown that h...

*Correspondence: Peter R. Nuttall, Sustainable Sea Transport Research Programme, Pacific Centre for Environment and Sustainable Development, University of the South Pacific, Private Bag, Laucala Bay, Suva, Fiji e-mail: [email protected] The role of financing and policy in research, development, trialing and introduction of renewable energy technologies in the Pacific maritime sector is co...

The objective of this study was to analyse the feasibility of adopting renewable energy technologies such as Solar PV systems and improved wood-fuel stoves in rural households and the role of such technologies on sustainable energy use and rural development in Tanzania. To reach this objective, the study analysed the current status of energy supply and energy use in rural Tanzania. Furthermore,...

The development and rapid consumer adoption of energy efficiency products and renewable energy systems are key elements of UK and EU carbon reduction strategies to meet the challenge of climate change. Many such technologies are available for domestic use, but despite government incentives to meet carbon reduction targets consumer adoption has been slow. This Open University research with 111 i...

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NOTICE This report was prepared as an account of work sponsored by an agency of the United States government. Neither the United States government nor any agency thereof, nor any of their employees, makes any warranty, express or implied, or assumes any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information, apparatus, product, or process disclosed, o...

ii Acknowledgments The authors wish to acknowledge the extensive contributions of the following people to this report. iii Preface Now is the time to begin planning for the integration of significant quantities of distributed renewable energy onto the electricity grid. Factors such as growing concern about climate change, adoption of state-level renewable portfolio standards and incentives, and...