TL;DR: In this paper, two national energy systems are modelled, one for Denmark, including combined heat and power (CHP) and the other a similarly sized country without CHP (the latter being more typical of other industrialized countries).

TL;DR: In this article, King et al. identify challenges facing hydrogen and fuel cell technologies that must be overcome before these technologies can make a significant contribution to cleaner and more efficient energy production processes.

TL;DR: Carbon capture and storage (CCS) covers a broad range of technologies that are being developed to allow carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from fossil fuel use at large point sources to be transported to safe geological storage, rather than being emitted to the atmosphere.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse the impact of renewable electricity generation on the electricity market in Germany and show that the financial volume of the price reduction is considerable, which gives rise to a distributional effect which creates savings for the demand side by reducing generator profits.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider the way in which community has become attached to renewable energy projects in the UK, both in grassroot action and in mainstream energy policy, and identify a diversity of understandings and interpretations that revolve around questions of both process and outcome.

TL;DR: The use of exergy is described as a measure for identifying and explaining the benefits of sustainable energy and technologies, so the benefits can be clearly understood and appreciated by experts and non-experts alike as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the daily price fundamentals of European Union Allowances (EUAs) traded since 2005 as part of the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) are analyzed. And the results extend previous literature by showing that EUA spot prices react not only to energy prices with forecast errors, but also to unanticipated temperatures changes during colder events.

TL;DR: In this paper, the interactive relationship between oil price shocks and Chinese stock market using multivariate vector auto-regression was investigated, and it was shown that oil price volatility may increase the speculations in mining index and petrochemicals index, which raise their stock returns.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the key scientific advances required in order to successfully develop energy-storage technologies generally represent realistic goals that may be achieved by 2050, given the appropriate research effort, the main barriers to overcome with regard to the development of SMES technology are those related to high-temperature superconductors.

TL;DR: In this paper, three barriers to fossil fuel energy conservation are discussed: insufficient knowledge of effective ways to reduce household energy use, the low priority and high costs of energy savings, and the lack of feasible alternatives.

TL;DR: The authors found that around one third of China's CO 2 emissions were due to production of exports, and this proportion has risen from 12% (230 Mt) in 1987 and only 21% (760 Mt), as recently as 2002, indicating that consumption in the developed world is driving this trend.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors screen 103 lifecycle studies of greenhouse gas-equivalent emissions for nuclear power plants to identify a subset of the most current, original, and transparent studies.

TL;DR: In this paper, a socio-psychological approach to investigate the social factors relevant to the formation of public acceptance towards renewable energies in four different regions, recommendations for the further implementation of renewable energy systems were derived.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared the household energy transitions in India and China through the analysis of both aggregate statistics and nationally representative household surveys and found that Indians derive a slightly larger fraction of their total household energy needs from liquid and grid sources of energy than Chinese with comparable incomes.

TL;DR: In this paper, an energy-economic model was developed to analyze the possibility of electrification through dissemination of electric lighting appliances as well as applied multiple regression analysis to estimate the socioeconomic condition, a literacy rate above 6 years old, in the areas.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine insights from the social sciences in this extensive field and point out the need for more deliberation and better communication between decision-makers, technical experts, other stakeholders and the public to take account of the physical, social, cultural and institutional contexts that shape and constrain people's choices.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore patterns of UK household energy use and associated carbon emissions at national level and also at high levels of socio-economic and geographical disaggregation, showing that different segments have widely differing patterns of consumption.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse the energy transition project carried out by the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, and present generic dilemmas for transitions approaches in the context of socio-technical multi-level theory that informs transition management.

TL;DR: In this article, a broad view is taken of what the meaning of community-owned production and use might constitute, as there are different models of community ownership, different notions of community and different degrees of connection or disconnection between produce and use.

TL;DR: The Generation-IV consortium seeks to develop a new generation of nuclear energy systems for commercial deployment by 2020-2030 as discussed by the authors, which include both the reactors and their fuel-cycle facilities.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented several DEA-type linear programming models for measuring economy-wide energy efficiency performance, which treated different energy sources as different inputs so that changes in energy mix could be accounted for in evaluating energy efficiency.

TL;DR: In this article, the results of a mail survey of 855 Swedish household consumers showed that willingness to pay for green electricity increased with a positive attitude towards green electricity and decreased with electricity costs.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored one rural community's response to a proposed sustainable energy project and found that there was widespread support for local generation and use of renewable energy, with respondents expecting benefits from a project in terms of increased community spirit and conservation of natural resources.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an analytical framework for the analysis of future cost development of new energy technologies for electricity generation; the analytical framework is based on an assessment of available experience curves, complemented with bottom-up analysis of sources of cost reductions and, for some technologies, judgmental expert assessments of long-term development paths.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine any causal effects between electricity consumption and real GDP for 30 OECD countries using a bootstrapped causality testing approach and unravel evidence in favour of electricity consumption causing real GDP in Australia, Iceland, Italy, the Slovak Republic, Czech Republic, Korea, Portugal, and the UK.

TL;DR: In this article, local, state, and regional policy actions in the US are inventoried and analyzed as to their potential effect on national emissions, and the realization of all existing sub-national initiatives, as of September 2007, could stabilize US emissions at 2010 levels by the year 2020.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the social, economic and environmental benefits of refurbishment compared with demolition, and discuss the issues in order to clarify the scale of the challenge and the relative value of demolition or renovation.

TL;DR: In this article, an Input-Output-Vector for the renewable energy sector was developed based on the results of more than 1000 interviews with an extensive questionnaire, and gross and net effect of two different policy scenarios for Germany until 2030 were calculated.

TL;DR: In this paper, the estimation of global solar radiation (GSR) in future time domain using artificial neural network method was made using three combinations of data sets namely: (i) day of the year and daily maximum air temperature as inputs and GSR as output.