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This paper analyzes the effects of providing feedback on electricity consumption in a field trial with more than 1500 households in Linz, Austria. Participation in the pilot group was random, but households could choose between two feedback types: access to a web portal or written feedback by post. Results from cross section OLS regression suggest that feedback provided to the pilot group results...
European Union (EU) regulations and economic trends are shaping the future of customer-focused energy policies. Regulations encourage utilities to introduce new energy technologies and increase energy efficiency for their customers. At the same time, consumers are becoming more conscious of various opportunities in energy markets, and new technologies are driving new products and services to the energy...
Global warning has emerged as the most prominent problem of our times. As such reducing GHG emissions have become the centre of environmental policies across the globe. The EU wants to play a leading role to the direction of alleviating climate change and for that purpose has set targets to reduce GHG by 20% and raise the share of renewable energy to 20% by 2020. Regulation to promote RES is considered...
To improve the energy utilization efficiency of power systems and solve the bottleneck problem of wind power development, the combined operation mode of wind power and pumped storage power could be adopted where there were some water resources. Based on the analysis the impact of large-scale wind power farm on the grid and the necessity of combined operation, considering the current price mechanism...
In 2005 Kempton and Tomic laid out a vision for V2G which presumed that use of V2G technology could provide a high revenue stream to early plug-in electric vehicles, enabling market penetration of relatively high cost early-to-market electric drive vehicles. To assure access to the presumed revenue streams vehicles must be plugged in at a location which provides the V2G interconnect that enables the...
This paper presents the work program of DESIMAX, a collaborative research project looking at wide-scale implementation of demand side management (DSM) within electricity networks. To fully understand the implications of extended use of DSM, it is important to develop multi-scale models that will be able to capture, predict and demonstrate the response of the power system at time scales ranging from...
Based on Tapio decoupling elasticity factor, this paper studies the relationships among growth rates of the industrial added value, materials consumption and waste discharge in Panzhihua, the purpose is to assess the dematerialization situation of industrial system. Results illustrate that both industrial material consumption and waste discharge were in the status of Strong and Weak Decoupling except...
Low-carbon economy is characterized by low energy consumption, low pollution and low emission. Such kind of economic development mode has brought great challenge to Chinese economy. It is unavoidable that heavy chemical industrial based Chinese industry has to consume large quantity of energies and resources during its progress, resulting in the unprecedented environmental pressure, resource pressure...
In this paper, with the application of energy consumption data in Xinjiang since 1952, carbon emissions over the years in Xinjiang are calculated according to IPCC carbon emissions calculation guidelines, the changes of total carbon emission and carbon emission structure and carbon emission intensity in Xinjiang are systematically analyzed. It is thought that the irrational energy consumption structure,...
Based on energy consumption changes from 1978 to 2008, The relationship among energy consumption, economic growth, CO2 emission and regional air quality is discussed in all of industries and different areas in China. They are related. The reduction potentials of CO2 and air Particulate Matter emission in these provinces and industries are caculated. Technology progress, the industry structure and...
This paper takes the recent process towards standardizing the mobile phone charger in the EU as a starting point to consider the role that compatibility standards might play in mitigating the negative impact of ICT on the environment. Building on insights gained from the economics of standards literature, we explore how the inherent effects of compatibility standards - such as reducing variety, avoiding...
The rapid growth of economy and improvement in living level of households in China require more input of energy, while more energy consumption causes severe environment pollution, which in turn affects environmental quality and economic development. Using grey relevancy analysis and these data about consumption of industrial energy and environmental quality from Henan province, we studied the impact...
This paper conducts a questionnaire survey of energy consumption in cold rural areas of northern china. It explains and analyses the main factors affecting energy consumption from several aspects: the residential building envelope, heating and air conditioning usage, lighting, cooking energy, renewable energy and economic issues. According to the research conclusion, put forward strategies for the...
Transportation is one of major sources of carbon emissions, and the study of relationship between carbon emissions and transportation is the hot topic in current. By improving the method to calculate carbon dioxide from IPCC, projected carbon dioxide emissions from China's railway transport during the period of 1998–2008, then use Tapio decoupling indicators to empirical analysis between turnover...
The application of renewable energy in electric power system is growing fast. There is an increasing need for economic evaluation to inform the photovoltaic (PV) allocation decisions of a range of decision-makers. For economical operation and control purposes, electric power users with PV systems are interested in the availability and the effects of these systems. This paper presents an evaluation...
With the continuous development of human society and energy consume, pollution of the environment, ecological environment deterioration and global greenhouse effect are increasing, energy-saving and emission-reduction has become the inevitable choice of economic sustainable development. Based on the analysis and summary procedure of energy conservation and emission reduction of four developed countries...
Economic development needs massive energy. Energy consumption elasticity coefficient can directly reflect the relationship between economic development and energy consumption. This paper analyzed historical data of the energy consumption elasticity from 1984 to 2009 of Hebei, made a gray prediction based on wavelet denoising, and got forecast data for the next decade. And the results showed that,...
As one of the important economic provinces in China, Shandong province plays an important role in energy production and energy consumption. Based on the revised time-series data of the energy production and supply in 1985-2009 in Shandong province, this study has established a grey forecasting model GM (1, 1) and made the accuracy checking for it. Smoothing test and exponential test are employed here...
The low carbon economy is one of the best economic models for the human society's sustainable development. The coal industry emission plays an important role in the development of low carbon economy. The coal industries also occupy significant position in the energy consumption in China. This paper introduces the connotation of low carbon economy, origin, related theory and the path of implementing...
In order to fully evaluate and understand the environmental pollution situation, and find out the distribution of regional environmental pollution and the gap, we use the Theil coefficient to analyze the regional sulfur dioxide emissions in Henan Province, which will provide a theoretical decision-making for government to further deploy environmental pollution control measures and develop differentiated...
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