The paper presents the results of the European EIE project “Realising the potential for small scale renewable energy sources in the home – Kyotointhehome”. The project's global aim is to inform and educate teachers, students and their families so that they can realise the need and can assess the potential for energy efficiency (EE) measures and renewable energy sources (RES) in their homes. The...

Renewable sources are not used to their full potential for electricity generation. Unpredictability of solar and wind power forces renewable generators to bid conservative generation amounts in a dayahead market in order to avoid fees for failure to provide generation. In this paper we propose an approach to increase the use of renewable sources, which allows renewable generators to hedge again...

abstract intensive and inefficient use of energy leads to degradation of natural resources and environmental problems. this study evaluated the relationship between the energy of consumed inputs and yield of tomato, cucumber and melon using the cobb–douglas production function. the data were collected from 90 farmers in firoozabad using a questionnaire. the farmers were chosen by simple random ...

In recent years energy shortage and environmental impacts due to consuming fossil fuels have led to developing renewable energy sources systems. Since these sources are not reliable and are usually time dependent, an energy storing system like hydrogen production is required. In this regard, PEM electrolyzer can be efficiently used to decompose liquid water into hydrogen and oxygen. Because of ...

(c) (d) Photovoltaic solar cells tap into sunlight—the most abundant renewable energy source on the Earth—for electricity. Our planet receives ~1.2×1017 W of solar power, while the rate of current worldwide energy consumption is ~10,000 times smaller at ~1.3×1013 W.1 This means that the Earth receives more solar energy in an hour than the total energy it consumes in an entire year. Solar energy...

In recent years, several countries and organisations increased their e↵orts on the use of renewable energy and electromobility [1]. Reaching the goal of a more environmentfriendly energy production together with less expensive transportation by using electromobility concepts is much more complicated as expected. Energy from renewable energy sources (e.g., wind or water) have the disadvantage of...