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1. Ambitious mitigation scenarios for Germany: A participatory approach

Author:
Schmid, Eva; Knopf, Brigitte
Source:
Energy policy 2012 v.51 pp. 662-672
ISSN:
0301-4215
Subject:
carbon dioxide,   etc   ; electricity; energy; engineering; greenhouse gas emissions; models; politics; pollution control; society; stakeholders; Germany;     Show all 11 Subjects
Abstract:
... This paper addresses the challenge of engaging civil society stakeholders in the development process of ambitious mitigation scenarios that are based on formal energy system modeling, allowing for the explicit attachment of normative considerations to technology-focused mitigation options. It presents the definition and model results for a set of mitigation scenarios for Germany that achieve 85% C ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.enpol.2012.09.007

2. A roadmap towards a low-carbon society in Japan using backcasting methodology: Feasible pathways for achieving an 80% reduction in CO₂ emissions by 2050

Author:
Ashina, Shuichi; Fujino, Junichi; Masui, Toshihiko; Ehara, Tomoki; Hibino, Go
Source:
Energy policy 2012 v.41 pp. 584-598
ISSN:
0301-4215
Subject:
carbon dioxide,   etc   ; energy; greenhouse gas emissions; markets; models; Japan;     Show all 6 Subjects
Abstract:
... The purpose of the study is to analyze feasibility and a roadmap of a low-carbon society in Japan by 2050, while satisfying required demands. Future technology roadmaps, CO₂ emission pathways and energy mix transitions leading Japan are calculated using the AIM/Backcasting Model based on backcasting methodology with taking into consideration that one of the keys for technological market penetratio ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.enpol.2011.11.020

3. Assessing the potential of hybrid energy technology to reduce exhaust emissions from global shipping

Author:
Dedes, Eleftherios K.; Hudson, Dominic A.; Turnock, Stephen R.
Source:
Energy policy 2012 v.40 pp. 204-218
ISSN:
0301-4215
Subject:
carbon dioxide,   etc   ; batteries; energy; energy requirements; energy use and consumption; fuel oils; gas emissions; industry; shipping;     Show all 9 Subjects
Abstract:
... The combination of a prime mover and an energy storage device for reduction of fuel consumption has successfully been used in automotive industry. The shipping industry has utilised this for conventional submarines. The potential of a load levelling strategy through use of a hybrid battery–diesel–electric propulsion system is investigated. The goal is to reduce exhaust gas emissions by reducing fu ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.enpol.2011.09.046

4. Benefits and cost implications from integrating small flexible nuclear reactors with off-shore wind farms in a virtual power plant

Author:
Shropshire, David; Purvins, Arturs; Papaioannou, Ioulia; Maschio, Isabella
Source:
Energy policy 2012 v.46 pp. 558-573
ISSN:
0301-4215
Subject:
carbon dioxide,   etc   ; European Union; energy; nuclear power; power generation; power plants; wind; wind farms; wind power; North Sea;     Show all 10 Subjects
Abstract:
... Nuclear power currently supports the goals of the European Union low-carbon society by being a dependable source of energy, while emitting no CO₂. In the future, more flexible nuclear systems could enable wind to achieve a 50% share of the renewable contribution to the energy mix. Small and medium-sized reactors (SMRs) could provide firming power generation to back-up the supply from renewable res ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.enpol.2012.04.037

5. Can a wind farm with CAES survive in the day-ahead market?

Author:
Mauch, Brandon; Carvalho, Pedro M.S.; Apt, Jay
Source:
Energy policy 2012 v.48 pp. 584-593
ISSN:
0301-4215
Subject:
carbon dioxide,   etc   ; air; capital; carbon markets; economic sustainability; electric power; electricity; energy; income; market prices; models; profit maximization; risk reduction; wind; wind farms; wind power;     Show all 16 Subjects
Abstract:
... We investigate the economic viability of coupling a wind farm with compressed air energy storage (CAES) to participate in the day-ahead electricity market at a time when renewable portfolio standards are not binding and wind competes freely in the marketplace. In our model, the CAES is used to reduce the risk of committing uncertain quantities of wind energy and to shift dispatch of wind generatio ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.enpol.2012.05.061

6. Changes in CO₂ emission intensities in the Mexican industry

Author:
González, Domingo; Martínez, Manuel
Source:
Energy policy 2012 v.51 pp. 149-163
ISSN:
0301-4215
Subject:
carbon dioxide,   etc   ; cement; econometric models; emissions factor; energy; greenhouse gas emissions; industry; iron; steel; Mexico;     Show all 10 Subjects
Abstract:
... A CO₂ emission intensity analysis in the Mexican industry from 1965 to 2010 is carried out by taking into consideration four stages: 1965–1982, 1982–1994, 1994–2003, and 2004–2010. Based on the LMDI decomposition methodology, three influencing factors are analyzed: energy intensity, CO₂ coefficient, and structure in terms of their contributions of each individual attributes to the overall percent ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.enpol.2012.08.058

7. China's growing methanol economy and its implications for energy and the environment

Author:
Yang, Chi-Jen; Jackson, Robert B.
Source:
Energy policy 2012 v.41 pp. 878-884
ISSN:
0301-4215
Subject:
carbon dioxide,   etc   ; coal; emissions; energy; gasoline; industry; methanol; methanol fuels; octane; prices; researchers; sustainable development; water shortages; China;     Show all 14 Subjects
Abstract:
... For more than a decade, Nobel laureate George Olah and coworkers have advocated the Methanol Economy – replacing petroleum-based fuels and chemicals with methanol and methanol-derivatives – as a path to sustainable development. A first step to this vision appears to be occurring in China. In the past five years, China has quickly built an industry of coal-based methanol and dimethyl ether (DME) th ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.enpol.2011.11.037

8. CO₂ emissions and economic development: China's 12th five-year plan

Author:
Meng, Ming; Niu, Dongxiao; Shang, Wei
Source:
Energy policy 2012 v.42 pp. 468-475
ISSN:
0301-4215
Subject:
carbon dioxide,   etc   ; cities; coal; economic development; economic policy; energy; greenhouse gas emissions; least squares; simulation models; China;     Show all 10 Subjects
Abstract:
... For the period of the 12th Five-Year Plan (2011–2015), the Chinese government has decided to reconsider and adjust its policies on economic development because of the pressures of CO₂ emissions and fossil energy consumption. The current paper adopts the logarithmic Stochastic Impacts by Regression on Population, Affluence, and Technology (STIRPAT) model to simulate the relationship between CO₂ emi ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.enpol.2011.12.013

9. CO₂ emissions, energy consumption, trade and income: A comparative analysis of China and India

Author:
Jayanthakumaran, Kankesu; Verma, Reetu; Liu, Ying
Source:
Energy policy 2012 v.42 pp. 450-460
ISSN:
0301-4215
Subject:
carbon dioxide,   etc   ; biosphere; burning; climate change; energy; fossil fuels; greenhouse gas emissions; international agreements; per-capita income; trade; world markets; China; India;     Show all 13 Subjects
Abstract:
... In order to prevent the destabilisation of the Earth's biosphere, CO₂ emissions must be reduced quickly and significantly. The causes of CO₂ emissions by individual countries need to be apprehended in order to understand the processes required for reducing emissions around the globe. China and India are the two largest transitional countries and growing economies, but are in two entirely different ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.enpol.2011.12.010

10. Distributed cogeneration for commercial buildings: Can we make the economics work?

Author:
Siler-Evans, Kyle; Morgan, M. Granger; Azevedo, Inês Lima
Source:
Energy policy 2012 v.42 pp. 580-590
ISSN:
0301-4215
Subject:
carbon dioxide,   etc   ; buildings; electricity; electricity costs; energy; fuels; greenhouse gas emissions; income; markets; prices; risk; tariffs; uncertainty; United States;     Show all 14 Subjects
Abstract:
... Although the benefits of distributed cogeneration are widely cited, adoption has been slow in the United States. Adoption could be encouraged by making cogeneration more economically attractive, either by increasing the expected returns or decreasing the risks of such investments. We evaluate the expected returns from demand response, capacity markets, regulation markets, accelerated depreciation, ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.enpol.2011.12.028

11. Effects of decoupling of carbon dioxide emission by Chinese nonferrous metals industry

Author:
Ren, Shenggang; Hu, Zhen
Source:
Energy policy 2012 v.43 pp. 407-414
ISSN:
0301-4215
Subject:
carbon dioxide,   etc   ; energy; greenhouse gas emissions; industry; metals; China;     Show all 6 Subjects
Abstract:
... We adopted the refined Laspeyres index approach to explore the impacts of industry scale, energy mix, energy intensity and utility mix on the total carbon dioxide emissions from the Chinese nonferrous metals industry for the period 1996–2008. In addition, we calculated the trend of decoupling effects in nonferrous metals industry in China by presenting a theoretical framework for decoupling. As th ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.enpol.2012.01.021

12. Energy and environmental impacts of alternative pathways for the Portuguese road transportation sector

Author:
Baptista, Patrícia C.; Silva, Carla M.; Farias, Tiago L.; Heywood, John B.
Source:
Energy policy 2012 v.51 pp. 802-815
ISSN:
0301-4215
Subject:
carbon dioxide,   etc   ; carbon monoxide; electricity; energy; energy use and consumption; environmental impact; fuels; greenhouse gas emissions; hydrocarbons; hydrogen; infrastructure; issues and policy; land transportation; politics; taxes; Portugal;     Show all 16 Subjects
Abstract:
... This study presents a methodology to develop scenarios of evolution from 2010 to 2050, for energy consumption and emissions (CO₂, HC, CO, NOₓ, PM) of the road transportation sector (light-duty and heavy-duty vehicles). The methodology is applied to Portugal and results are analyzed in a life-cycle perspective. A BAU trend and 5 additional scenarios are explored: Policy-based (Portuguese political ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.enpol.2012.09.025

13. Energy consumption and CO₂ emission impacts of vehicle electrification in three developed regions of China

Author:
Wu, Ye; Yang, Zhengdong; Lin, Bohong; Liu, Huan; Wang, Renjie; Zhou, Boya; Hao, Jiming
Source:
Energy policy 2012 v.48 pp. 537-550
ISSN:
0301-4215
Subject:
carbon dioxide,   etc   ; cities; coal; electricity; energy; greenhouse gas emissions; industry; oils; petroleum; transportation; vehicles (equipment); China;     Show all 12 Subjects
Abstract:
... Vehicle electrification has been seriously considered as an industry revolution to achieve sustainable transportation in China. Hybrid electric vehicles (HEV), plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) and pure electric vehicles (EV) are being demonstrated in scores of large cities. We select three well-developed regions (Jing-Jin-Ji, Yangtze-River-Delta and Pearl-River-Delta) to explore regional gr ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.enpol.2012.05.060

14. Energy consumption and CO₂ emissions in China's cement industry: A perspective from LMDI decomposition analysis

Author:
Xu, Jin-Hua; Fleiter, Tobias; Eichhammer, Wolfgang; Fan, Ying
Source:
Energy policy 2012 v.50 pp. 821-832
ISSN:
0301-4215
Subject:
carbon dioxide,   etc   ; best available technology; cement; economic development; energy; energy conservation; energy use and consumption; greenhouse gas emissions; infrastructure; issues and policy; manufacturing; China;     Show all 12 Subjects
Abstract:
... We analyze the change of energy consumption and CO₂ emissions in China's cement industry and its driving factors over the period 1990–2009 by applying a log-mean Divisia index (LMDI) method. It is based on the typical production process for clinker manufacturing and differentiates among four determining factors: cement output, clinker share, process structure and specific energy consumption per ki ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.enpol.2012.08.038

15. Energy consumption, carbon emissions and economic growth nexus in Bangladesh: Cointegration and dynamic causality analysis

Author:
Jahangir Alam, Mohammad; Ara Begum, Ismat; Buysse, Jeroen; Van Huylenbroeck, Guido
Source:
Energy policy 2012 v.45 pp. 217-225
ISSN:
0301-4215
Subject:
carbon dioxide,   etc   ; carbon; economic development; economic factors; electricity; energy; greenhouse gas emissions; issues and policy; models; pollution; renewable energy sources; Bangladesh;     Show all 12 Subjects
Abstract:
... The paper investigates the possible existence of dynamic causality between energy consumption, electricity consumption, carbon emissions and economic growth in Bangladesh. First, we have tested cointegration relationships using the Johansen bi-variate cointegration model. This is complemented with an analysis of an auto-regressive distributed lag model to examine the results' robustness. Then, the ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.enpol.2012.02.022

16. Energy consumption, economic growth and CO₂ emissions in Middle East and North African countries

Author:
Arouri, Mohamed El Hedi; Ben Youssef, Adel; M'henni, Hatem; Rault, Christophe
Source:
Energy policy 2012 v.45 pp. 342-349
ISSN:
0301-4215
Subject:
carbon dioxide,   etc   ; econometrics; economic development; energy; greenhouse gas emissions; income; time series analysis; Africa; Middle East;     Show all 9 Subjects
Abstract:
... This article extends the recent findings of Liu (2005), Ang (2007), Apergis et al. (2009) and Payne (2010) by implementing recent bootstrap panel unit root tests and cointegration techniques to investigate the relationship between carbon dioxide emissions, energy consumption, and real GDP for 12 Middle East and North African Countries (MENA) over the period 1981–2005. Our results show that in the ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.enpol.2012.02.042

17. Energy technology patents–CO₂ emissions nexus: An empirical analysis from China

Author:
Wang, Zhaohua; Yang, Zhongmin; Zhang, Yixiang; Yin, Jianhua
Source:
Energy policy 2012 v.42 pp. 248-260
ISSN:
0301-4215
Subject:
carbon dioxide,   etc   ; carbon; energy; fossil fuels; greenhouse gas emissions; gross domestic product; issues and policy; patents; China;     Show all 9 Subjects
Abstract:
... Energy technology innovation plays a crucial role in reducing carbon emissions. This paper investigates whether there is relationship between energy technology patents and CO₂ emissions of 30 provinces in mainland China during 1997–2008. Gross domestic product (GDP) is included in the study due to its impact on CO₂ emissions and energy technology innovation, thus avoiding the problem of omitted va ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.enpol.2011.11.082

18. Energy-water nexus of wind power in China: The balancing act between CO₂ emissions and water consumption

Author:
Li, Xin; Feng, Kuishuang; Siu, Yim Ling; Hubacek, Klaus
Source:
Energy policy 2012 v.45 pp. 440-448
ISSN:
0301-4215
Subject:
carbon dioxide,   etc   ; carbon; electricity; energy; energy policy; greenhouse gas emissions; households; life cycle assessment; power generation; wind power; China;     Show all 11 Subjects
Abstract:
... At the end of 2010, China's contribution to global CO₂ emissions reached 25.1%. Estimates show that power generation accounts for 37.2% of the Chinese CO₂ emissions. Even though there is an increasing number of studies using life cycle analysis (LCA) to examine energy consumption and CO₂ emissions required by different types of power generation technologies, there are very few studies focusing on ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.enpol.2012.02.054

19. Experience curve analysis on South Korean nuclear technology and comparative analysis with South Korean renewable technologies

Author:
Kim, Dong Wook; Chang, Hyun Joon
Source:
Energy policy 2012 v.40 pp. 361-373
ISSN:
0301-4215
Subject:
carbon dioxide,   etc   ; climate change; economic development; electricity; energy; fossil fuels; greenhouse gas emissions; industry; issues and policy; nuclear power; risk; sustainable technology; South Korea;     Show all 13 Subjects
Abstract:
... Increasing awareness on environmental damage and climate change has induced many nations to engage in green growth. South Korea, as one of the largest consumers of energy, is no exception and has shown its determination to pursue green growth in the future. In order to do so, South Korea plans to substitute fossil fuel with alternative sources in electricity generation. However, the key constraint ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.enpol.2011.10.021

20. Fulfilling the Kyoto protocol in Spain: A matter of economic crisis or environmental policies?

Author:
Zafrilla, Jorge Enrique; López, Luis Antonio; Cadarso, María Ángeles; Dejuán, Óscar
Source:
Energy policy 2012 v.51 pp. 708-719
ISSN:
0301-4215
Subject:
carbon dioxide,   etc   ; coal; combustion; construction industry; energy; environmental policy; greenhouse gas emissions; models; petroleum; prices; Spain;     Show all 11 Subjects
Abstract:
... In 2008, Spain exceeded by 20.9% the CO₂ emissions allowed by the Kyoto Protocol for 2012. The financial and economic crisis has transformed these figures: as production fell so did energy demand and with it CO₂ emissions. Will the Spanish economic crisis allow Spain to fulfill its commitments? With this in mind, we have developed an extended input–output model able to forecast energy demand and c ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.enpol.2012.09.011