{"title":"Impact of environmental factors on photovoltaic system performance degradation","authors":"Edgar Hernando Sepúlveda-Oviedo","doi":"10.1016/j.esr.2025.101682","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.esr.2025.101682","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The rapid expansion of photovoltaic (PV) systems underscores the need to understand environmental factors affecting their performance, degradation, and economic viability. This study comprehensively reviews 175 articles, classifying environmental factors such as atmospheric deposits (dust, sea salt, pollen), meteorological conditions (wind, temperature, humidity, rainfall, snowfall, hailstorms), shading, and solar irradiation variability. A novel multilevel classification of degradation modes is introduced, identifying failure mechanisms and their impacts. Key findings reveal performance losses of up to 60%–70% due to combined factors, while mitigation strategies, such as wind-induced cooling, can improve power output by 14.25%, and snow accumulation results in up to 12% annual energy losses. Performance metrics like Performance Loss Rate (PLR) and Degradation Rate (DR) are evaluated to quantify long-term impacts, with economic implications including potential revenue losses and maintenance costs. For instance, addressing dust accumulation in arid regions could save 20%–30% in annual cleaning costs while reducing energy inefficiencies. Recent advancements in AI-driven predictive maintenance are highlighted as pivotal for optimizing system performance and minimizing costs. This integrated analysis provides actionable insights for researchers, engineers, and policymakers, emphasizing the need for tailored strategies to enhance PV resilience and economic sustainability. By addressing the interaction of environmental factors and introducing standardized metrics, this study fills critical research gaps, offering a roadmap for improving PV system reliability, reducing operational costs, and supporting the transition to sustainable energy under diverse environmental conditions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11546,"journal":{"name":"Energy Strategy Reviews","volume":"59 ","pages":"Article 101682"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143642091","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Research on the resilience of petroleum industry chain and supply chain network from the perspective of China","authors":"Minggui Zheng, Jingsheng Ni, Juan Dong","doi":"10.1016/j.esr.2025.101685","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.esr.2025.101685","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The security situation of the global petroleum industry chain and supply chain network has undergone significant changes, especially during events such as the pneumonia pandemic. As a country with significant changes in the petroleum industry and supply chain, studying China is of great significance. At the same time, the overall research on the security of the petroleum industry chain and supply chain is not yet complete. Therefore, starting from node resilience and structural resilience, this study constructs a research system for preparation, stability, resistance, and reconstruction, which can comprehensively study the security of the petroleum industry chain and supply chain. Research has found that: (1) The central countries of the petroleum industry chain and supply chain are relatively fixed, concentrated in countries such as the United States, China, the Netherlands, and Canada. (2) The petroleum industry chain and supply chain network are all heterogeneous networks, and there are significant differences in the countries in the network. (3) In the supply chain network of the petroleum industry chain, the efficiency of the network will sharply decrease before the ratio of node to edge losses reaches a certain value. (4) In the petroleum industry chain and supply chain network, countries located at the hub will prioritize recovery. Research is of great significance for maintaining the security of the petroleum industry chain and supply chain.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11546,"journal":{"name":"Energy Strategy Reviews","volume":"59 ","pages":"Article 101685"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143643051","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Two-step price mechanism using Newton-Raphson method and peer-to-peer mediation for local electricity markets","authors":"Simona-Vasilica Oprea, Adela Bâra","doi":"10.1016/j.esr.2025.101701","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.esr.2025.101701","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Locally trading Renewable Energy Sources (RES) leads to significant cost savings and promotes sector coupling. Local Electricity Markets (LEM) incentivize the deployment of more RES installations, thereby reducing dependency on fossil fuels and lowering carbon emissions. RES have the potential to decarbonize heating and incentivize e-mobility. In this paper, two innovative pricing mechanisms for LEM are proposed. Uniform price (UP) mechanism with price caps & floors and post-auction price adjustment (CUPA-PPA) imposes auction price caps to prevent excessively low or high prices, excluding bids below/above the Feed-in Tariff (FiT)/Time-of-Use (ToU) rates. For any remaining buying quantity, the post-auction prices are adjusted iteratively until equilibrium using the Newton-Raphson method, ensuring transactions occur within the FiT and ToU range. The second mechanism combines UP with a mediating Peer-to-Peer (CUPA-P2P) trading. These mechanisms aim to enhance trading opportunities, increase RES usage and better link electricity, heating and transportation, while ensuring price stability and fairness. They provide a more equitable distribution of savings (as evidenced by the lower Gini index) and greater savings compared to UP, with both metrics showing stronger performance in the summer (0.14/19 %) than in the winter (0.18/4.32 %). Moreover, the traded quantities increase almost three times in both winter and summer months.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11546,"journal":{"name":"Energy Strategy Reviews","volume":"59 ","pages":"Article 101701"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143636411","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How growth, urbanization, and energy consumption affect CO2 emissions in Saudi Arabia (1970–2020)? An ARDL and NARDL approach to investigate the eco-environmental challenge","authors":"Haykel Tlili , Samer Alhamad , Hager Turki","doi":"10.1016/j.esr.2025.101691","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.esr.2025.101691","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Reconciling economic growth with environmental sustainability is a pressing challenge for resource-dependent economies such as Saudi Arabia. This study analyzes five decades (1970–2020) of data, applying ARDL and NARDL models to evaluate the relationship between economic growth and carbon emissions. Key findings reveal that oil-driven growth intensifies emissions, with an elasticity of 1.34 in the long term, while non-oil activities reduce emissions by 0.86 %. Positive energy consumption shocks amplify emissions by 1.87 %, whereas efficiency gains reduce them by 1.00 %. Urbanization shows mixed effects: increasing emissions in the short term but contributing to sustainability in the long term with proper urban planning. Policy recommendations include accelerating renewable energy projects like solar and wind initiatives, promoting compact urban designs, and expanding energy storage infrastructure to stabilize renewable energy systems. The study also underscores the importance of economic diversification, public awareness campaigns for energy-saving practices, and leveraging international collaborations to achieve meaningful decoupling. These findings align with Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 and provide actionable insights for integrating sustainability into economic strategies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11546,"journal":{"name":"Energy Strategy Reviews","volume":"59 ","pages":"Article 101691"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143620802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pathways for reducing carbon emissions in county-level transportation: A life cycle perspective and multi-scenario analysis","authors":"Xiaohuan Xie , Yuelin Zhong , Shengyuan Li , Zhonghua Gou","doi":"10.1016/j.esr.2025.101678","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.esr.2025.101678","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Energy-related carbon emissions from the transportation sector are one of the major obstacles to achieving global carbon reduction targets. Current research on transportation energy mainly focuses on the energy end-use stage, with a lack of simulations covering both the front-end and end-use stages of transportation energy. This study, from a life-cycle perspective, conducts a carbon emission simulation for county-level transportation. Based on the 2019 transportation data of Huadu District, Guangzhou, the study combines life-cycle assessment (LCA) with the Low Emission Analysis Platform (LEAP) to simulate changes in transportation carbon emissions from 2020 to 2050. The results indicate that: (1) The Energy-Saving scenario has the greatest carbon reduction potential, capable of reducing carbon emissions by 75 %. (2) Energy efficiency factors have the most significant carbon reduction effect in transportation. (3) There is a carbon transfer phenomenon from \"Tank-to-Wheel\" to \"Well-to-Tank\" in transportation energy. (4) Embodied carbon accounts for 40 %, while operational carbon accounts for 60 % of the entire transportation energy life cycle. Based on the above results, the study suggests that the government should increase policy support and technological innovation, invest in public transportation infrastructure, and strengthen carbon management throughout the entire lifecycle to comprehensively enhance the carbon emission reduction effects of transportation energy.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11546,"journal":{"name":"Energy Strategy Reviews","volume":"58 ","pages":"Article 101678"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143527266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"EU's and Japan's strategies for energy transition enhancement in Central Asia: Exploring comparative and synergic perspectives","authors":"Elena Shadrina","doi":"10.1016/j.esr.2025.101658","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.esr.2025.101658","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In their pursuit of energy transitions, Central Asian emerging economies face limitations in technology and financing, which they address through international cooperation. Research about the engagement of the European Union (EU) and Japan, both relatively new non-regional actors in the Central Asian landscape, in renewable energy (RE) development in the region is limited. The contribution of this study is threefold: it (1) introduces a concept of Strategy for Energy Transition Enhancement (SETE) and operationalises it to (2) comparatively analyse the EU’s and Japan’s SETEs, and (3) explore avenues for cooperation to facilitate energy transitions in Central Asia. SETE is a multifaceted framework built upon the (Supra)National Energy Transition Strategy (NETS), elaborated through the channels of Energy Transition Diplomacy (ETD) and configured to fit global, regional, and host country contexts. The study demonstrates that SETE is driven by a pursuit of energy security and enabled by competitive advantages crucial for energy transition. It shows that despite the distinct approaches of the EU and Japan, driven by their respective energy security needs, technological priorities, institutional preferences, and growing global normative ambitions, both declare a greater interest in engaging in energy transition in Central Asia. The study uncovers an increasing synergy between the EU’s and Japan’s SETEs in Central Asia, which may help foster energy transition in the region.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11546,"journal":{"name":"Energy Strategy Reviews","volume":"58 ","pages":"Article 101658"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143611729","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Can digitalization promote cities' low-carbon development: Insights from local and neighboring regions","authors":"Weijian Du , Yuhuan Fan , Nini Yuan , Mengjie Li","doi":"10.1016/j.esr.2025.101680","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.esr.2025.101680","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Despite the widespread recognition of the importance of carbon reduction and the increasing prevalence of digital technologies, the exact nature of the relationship between digitalization and carbon emissions at the local and regional levels remains poorly understood. This lack of understanding hinders the development of targeted policies for achieving low-carbon urban development. This study aims to address the questions of whether digitalization can effectively contribute to carbon reduction and how digitalization impacts carbon emissions in different regions. Using panel data from 247 prefecture-level Chinese cities, we examine the synergistic effect of digitalization on carbon emissions in local and surrounding regions, as well as the underlying mechanisms involved. This benchmark research reveals that digitalization promotes low-carbon development through geographical spillover effects, in addition to facilitating low-carbon growth in local regions. The mechanistic analysis results indicate that digitalization promotes low-carbon growth via improvements in the energy structure and the stimulation of green technologies. According to the horizontal and vertical aspects of each region, heterogeneity analysis indicates that digitalization notably influences the reduction in urban carbon emissions in the central, western, and northern regions. This article offers policy proposals for accomplishing dual carbon goals and developing a new growth pattern, along with empirical data demonstrating that digitalization facilitates low-carbon urban development.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11546,"journal":{"name":"Energy Strategy Reviews","volume":"58 ","pages":"Article 101680"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143552837","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Do renewable energy sources and energy infrastructure contribute to mitigating energy poverty? Exploring uncharted dynamics","authors":"Yeliyya Kolati , Chandrashekar Raghutla","doi":"10.1016/j.esr.2025.101687","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.esr.2025.101687","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Energy poverty remains a crucial yet often overlooked issue in the energy sector. Tackling this challenge requires a shift to renewable energy sources, which can alleviate energy poverty and advance sustainable development goals. This research explores how renewable energy can help reduce energy poverty by examining factors such as energy infrastructure, energy-related uncertainty, energy intensity, and urbanization. The study also specifically analyzes the effects of individual renewable energy sources, namely, wind, solar, and hydro on energy poverty, focusing on the top ten countries ranked by the Renewable Energy Country Attractive Index (RECAI). The study used the Two-Step Systems Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) and Method of Moments Quantile Regression (MMQR) econometric techniques. The results demonstrate that renewable energy consumption and energy-related uncertainty promote energy poverty. It has been found that energy infrastructure can worsen energy poverty, whereas energy intensity and urbanization help reduce energy poverty. Notably, solar and wind energy positively impact energy poverty, while hydro energy has the converse effect. The study identifies bidirectional causality between renewable energy and energy poverty, as well as between energy-related uncertainty and energy poverty. The research results offer more suitable insight for policymakers to concentrate on the advancement of renewable energy for the reduction of energy poverty.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11546,"journal":{"name":"Energy Strategy Reviews","volume":"58 ","pages":"Article 101687"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143552841","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Revamping energy markets for green recovery: Reshaping the energy industry resource efficiency with energy reforms","authors":"Ran Wei , Eugene Yin Cheung Wong , Ali Raza","doi":"10.1016/j.esr.2025.101661","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.esr.2025.101661","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This research aims to inquire about the influence of energy markets on reshaping green recovery by studying the role of energy resource efficiency in energy reforms in China. Data was obtained from 2012 to 2019 to test the findings of this data envelopment analysis (DEA) technique. The study findings showed that China has implemented extensive market reforms in its power industry to create a more sustainable future. There has been an uptick in energy resource efficiency since 2016, but there are still problems, especially with the dependability of electricity production. Notably, energy reforms have a significant influence on energy resource efficiency. Extending it, energy resource efficiency also enhances green recovery significantly. This research further shows increased variety within the energy resource industry, enhancing our knowledge of market changes' implications. The study recommends numerous policy implications for policymakers, including revamping energy markets with more green recovery initiatives, advancing energy resource efficiency with accurate technical support, implementing electrical grid modernization in China, and attempting to resolve regional energy resource efficiency discrepancies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11546,"journal":{"name":"Energy Strategy Reviews","volume":"58 ","pages":"Article 101661"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143509317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zheng Wang , Yuchu Huang , Keyin Zhou , Yuan Zeng , Xiang Tang , Bo Bai
{"title":"Techno-economic assessment of wind and solar energy: Upgrading the LCOE model and enhancing geographical granularity","authors":"Zheng Wang , Yuchu Huang , Keyin Zhou , Yuan Zeng , Xiang Tang , Bo Bai","doi":"10.1016/j.esr.2025.101686","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.esr.2025.101686","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Wind and solar (W&S) energy are pivotal to China's energy transition, yet traditional models for calculating the Levelized Cost of Electricity (LCOE) inadequately account for regional and temporal variability. Enhancing the LCOE model will provide a more precise and reliable assessment of the economic costs of W&S resources, facilitating the transition to a more sustainable energy future. This study reviews existing LCOE methodologies, identifying critical limitations, and underscores the necessity for high-precision economic assessments. Results show that current LCOE models can be improved from five geographic perspectives, i.e. natural, transportation, social, policy and economic. Based on these factors, an advanced China-based LCOE model is proposed incorporating spatio-temporal granularity, significantly enhancing the accuracy of economic evaluations of W&S projects, offering a refined approach to assess economic costs and support detailed planning for renewable energy development. This paper highlights the need for refinement of LCOE models, with future research focusing on geographic heterogeneity, variability impacts, and the influence of dynamic pricing and policy variations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11546,"journal":{"name":"Energy Strategy Reviews","volume":"58 ","pages":"Article 101686"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143593668","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}