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Governments everywhere would like to cut red tape, reduce bureaucracy, and speed the delivery of services. But constituents are still often frustrated by mounds of paperwork and the snail-like pace of official business. Could a blockchain help? Just as blockchains have shaken up the financial industry and changed our perception of money, some government agencies now believe the technology could rejuvenate...
This paper presents a collaboration between the University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez (UPRM) and a community to establish Puerto Rico's first solar community in the southern part of the Island. This community-university collaboration is leveraging on well-organized community leadership and their efforts towards community self-reliance. Electrical engineering capstone design projects have been used as...
The article presents the history of centralised district heating systems in Moldova, evolution, current state and prospects for short-term investments financed by raising funds from external creditors.
The paper focuses on the potential of the Russian Federation that has been ‘ordained’ by its advantageous location and geographical position to play the role of the international transport transit corridor. To solve this fundamental task the authors suggest creating a unified integral transit transport system. On the basis of optimal transport multimodality and the concept of high-speed trans- and...
The article presents an approach for the building of institutional and organizational fundamentals of a regional marine transportation system strategic development by means of adaptation of a modern vision of the cluster functional purpose and formalization of a structural and logical model of the regional marine transport and logistics cluster model.
The article focuses on the issue of the substitution policy's implementation in Russia. Treatments of this concept in books and papers on economics are reviewed. Measures to implement this strategy, its first results in various sectors are presented. The advantages of this strategy, prospects for further development in today's environment are assessed, and the necessity to make it export-oriented...
This paper presents a conceptual scientific approach, blending the elements of the project management theory, i.e. three selected schools of the Perspectives on Projects (Turner, Huemann, Anbari & Bredillet, 2010), pragmatic institutional economics, and reasoned action approach, to local economy development by way of projectized household asset building activities in the case of a depressed Russian...
Engineering education is undergoing a restructuring driven by the needs of an increasingly multidisciplinary engineering profession. At the same time, power systems are transitioning toward future smart grids that will require power engineers with skills outside of the core power engineering domain. Since including new topics in the existing curriculum while maintaining the existing requirements is...
Scenario analysis is an effective way to evaluate and identify regional disaster risk. This paper focuses on the construction of regional disaster scenario, in order to adapt to the inference of disaster evolution paths and risk identification. Disaster scenario can be described through disaster consequence and evolution trends of disaster consequence. Since the states of elements at risk (EARs) directly...
There is widespread consensus in the climate research community that households show different attitudes toward the broad spectrum of technologies and policy instruments implemented to reduce CO2 emissions. The aim of this paper is to investigate the monetary aspect of socio-economic acceptability of four sustainable green technologies development: green electricity, energy savings in residential...
HEART - an innovative EU H2020 funded project - recently took off with the goal of concretely tackling technical, economic and social aspects related to climate change and building energy consumptions.
The focus of the research is the low voltage electrical system of buildings, where the main switch is up to 2500 A. This paper describes simple calculation of the payback of innovations using a simple model of electrical system of buildings without the use of complex computer programs. For using this method, it is sufficient to have conventional engineering knowledge. The proposed model considers...
The residential personal camps of South Pars Gas Complex are one of the few places where electric energy is used for the bath water heating. The widespread use of these devices is the main source for the high peak of the electricity demand in the residential sector. In an attempt to deal with this issue, to reduce the electricity usage for the hot water, as an option, solar hot water systems have...
This paper presents a mixed integer linear program based model to optimize smart community energy systems, based upon physical models of buildings, energy storage, and energy conversion devices. Using a level-of-aggregation approach, the model can accommodate different price components at the relevant aggregation level. Community energy systems with various characteristics have been assessed considering...
The article deals with the creation of a complex technique for positioning of solar and wind power objects in the residential areas in order to increase the efficiency of municipal power supply facilities. It was reached by development of comprehensive assessment for the environment climatic parameters considering environmental aspects of alternative energy installations. Environmental and economical...
Change is inevitable in most construction projects due to uniqueness of projects and limited resources. Previous studies revealed that design changes are accountable for 78% of the total cost deviation in construction projects. Design Freeze (DF) is one method used during design development stage to mitigate the risks associated with change. This organizes and complies the design process, control...
In the era of Internet of Things (IoT), we face the challenges of integrating new IoT systems with the existing systems, which are in services for large scale and economic implementations. In this paper, we explore an approach for integrate wired-wireless systems based on industrial standards, such as Zigbee and DALI for optimizing the energy use as well as timely communicating the vital signals to...
Demand response is an effective measure to balance the load and generation. In this paper, time elasticity of load is proposed to evaluate the time selection of power consumption. It is obtained according to similarity between sampling load curve and typical load curve, smoothness of load curve, loss cost of load shift and proportion of load shift. Quantitative analysis of time elasticity of load...
This paper investigates alternative ways to construct a decision tool intended to help the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission (DVRPC) region to meet or exceed the goal of 80% reduction in the emission of Green House Gas (GHG) by 2050. The goal is to explore and build several pre-prototypes to evaluate the value of the role for ABM, alternative data sources (Census, energy reports, DVRPC...
The Discovery Learning Libraries of Bangkok Metropolitan Administration have been examined in terms of energy performance. There are eight libraries with the same shape but located in different districts. The average energy intensity of the building is 183.03 kWh/m2. EnergyPlus was used to simulate the energy performance of the buildings, to examine the energy saving measures and to assess the energy...
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