PSN: Renewable Resources & Energy (Topic)最新文献

{"title":"Monitoring Program of the First Wind Farm in Bolivia and the German Expertise","authors":"M. López","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2717053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2717053","url":null,"abstract":"The main objective of this Research Project, given its short term schedule, is to establish an approach to the actual stage of the Qollpana project and to determine the conditions under which, this project could be validated into the electricity supply by using the German expertise as an example and its social and economic implications.","PeriodicalId":266711,"journal":{"name":"PSN: Renewable Resources & Energy (Topic)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128685814","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Globalizing Solar: Industry Specialization and Firm Demands for Trade Protection","authors":"Jonas O. Meckling, Llewelyn Hughes","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2638833","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2638833","url":null,"abstract":"Governments are investing billions of dollars in low-carbon energy technologies in order to address climate change. Recently governments have also adopted protectionist measures in low-carbon energy technology sectors. In the solar photovoltaic industry, governments in both Europe and the United States responded to a rise in Chinese module exports through the imposition of tariffs, voluntary export restraints and other measures. The government in Japan, however - another major solar market - has not done so. We hypothesize that the position of firms in global value chains shape their preferences vis-a-vis trade protection. Our findings show the policy positions of the majority of firms align with expectations. In doing so we provide evidence that industry specialization shapes firm demand for trade protection in a major green industry. More generally, our research suggests the globalization and fragmentation of supply chains creates important trade-offs for governments by pitting industrial interests against upstream and downstream firms and environmental interests seeking to maximize market penetration of renewable technologies.","PeriodicalId":266711,"journal":{"name":"PSN: Renewable Resources & Energy (Topic)","volume":"11 8","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131893028","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Shakti Solar Pumps","authors":"Keyur Thaker","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2601327","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2601327","url":null,"abstract":"Shakti Pumps (India) Ltd is a Rs. 300 crores, company, known for manufacturing and exporting world-class energy efficient stainless steel pumps, motors and flow boosters. While pumps were often used in rural areas for irrigation the scarcity or unavailability of electricity posed obvious hindrance in installation and utilization of AC pumps in India. The super star export house decided to launch the solar panel fitted pumps in 2014. The additional cost of solar penal came at about 1.25 lacs per kWh. While the solar pumps saved the fuel cost and had potential to improve crop yield, it required high upfront investment and effective sunlight. With an average energy consumption of pumps at 6-7 kWh in rural areas for irrigation the capital cost of solar penal remained a major hurdle in penetration of such pumps. The cost of electrifying the rural areas- extending grid connection to farmer was high, but with benefits of savings of coal in generation of electricity the management wondered if they could convince government about the larger benefits and seek some support and subsidy. With intense competition in potentially lucrative market Shakti need to articulate an effective strategy to make the product successful. The case discusses various issues and concerns management faced with launch of the solar pumps.","PeriodicalId":266711,"journal":{"name":"PSN: Renewable Resources & Energy (Topic)","volume":"127 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132113398","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Clean Energy -- Bridging to Commercialization: The Key Potential Role of Large Strategic Industry Partners","authors":"Lawrence M. Murphy, Ron Ondechek, R. Bracho, John J. Mckenna","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2520343","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2520343","url":null,"abstract":"This white paper explores a range of potentially attractive partnerships, including those between established US industry members, the entrepreneurial CE (clean energy) community, and the financial industry. These partnerships, include those that can leverage a wide range of entrepreneurial and industry resources that are needed to promote the development and commercialization of innovative new technologies - partnerships that in turn can lead to accelerated, global utilization of CE, as well as US global leadership for the CE industry. The need for these partnerships is discussed within the context of the growing interest in CE, driven in large part by the anticipated strong, global growth in energy demand, as well as by the need for a spectrum of other long term (e.g. environmental) benefits from CE. The impacts of the rapidly changing investment and the market environment for innovative CE technologies, are also explored. The strong need for multifaceted enabling partnerships and resources are found to go well beyond those corresponding to financing, and includes for example, expertise on markets and market creation, and product development. In addition, deep resource levels are often especially needed in the pursuit of high potential, next generation CE innovative supply technologies that require costly technology development. Such is the case for example, where sophisticated manufacturing approaches are needed to exploit promising, and high performance, material combinations along with novel and complex technology based hardware. Further, access to adequate resources for the needed, high cost, technology development is increasingly less likely to be available from traditional partners such as VCs and their limited partners. Of the key potential partners explored, Strategic Industry Partners (SIPs) are found to be particularly intriguing - they have the most robust range of appropriate resources to potentially benefit from these partnerships while also helping to fill the void in the commercialization food chain for technology development, where VC funding is not available. SIPs also play a broad enabling role for the growth of the entrepreneurial US based, CE industry. Moreover, SIPs also have the required stature and influence to impact global markets as well as to promote global US leadership in CE, while also contributing to the dialogue around public-private partnerships. While SIPs have stringent requirements for partnering, as well as intense competition for their resource investments, successfully pursuing mutually attractive partnerships with SIPs should be well worth the required effort.","PeriodicalId":266711,"journal":{"name":"PSN: Renewable Resources & Energy (Topic)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114057208","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Energy Subsidies and WTO Dispute Settlement: Why Only Renewable Energy Subsidies are Challenged","authors":"H. Asmelash","doi":"10.1093/JIEL/JGV024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/JIEL/JGV024","url":null,"abstract":"Over the past few years, renewable energy subsidies have become one of the main sources of trade disputes at the WTO. A total of six cases have been initiated against renewable energy subsidy programmes since the first of such disputes was brought by Japan against Canada’s Feed-in Tariff (FIT) Program in 2010. Yet not even a single case has so far been initiated against the much larger and environmentally harmful fossil fuel subsidies. The main objective of this article is to examine what makes renewable energy subsidies vulnerable to WTO dispute, as compared to fossil fuel subsidies.","PeriodicalId":266711,"journal":{"name":"PSN: Renewable Resources & Energy (Topic)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122020700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Interdependencies between Technology and Capacity Investments in the Solar Technology Sector","authors":"F. Schock, Jan Mutl, Florian A. Täube, Paschen von Flotow","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2501857","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2501857","url":null,"abstract":"The impact of venture capital (VC) investment on innovation and technology commercialization as well as the influence of market capacity on venture capital firm decision-making has been extensively covered by the existing literature. However, the interdependency between investment that drives technology and investment that drives market capacity has received relatively little attention. Whereas literature suggests that VC investment in technology companies strengthens technology and/or manufacturing efficiency, asset finance investment drives capacity growth and volume in certain technology sectors. We examine interdependencies in investment in technology and capacity by analyzing the relationship between VC investment in solar technology firms and asset finance investment in solar power infrastructure capacity in the US. We find that investment in solar technology drives investment in solar capacity; however, we find no evidence that market growth caused by solar capacity investment induced follow-on investment by solar technology venture capitalists in the US.","PeriodicalId":266711,"journal":{"name":"PSN: Renewable Resources & Energy (Topic)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126659743","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Energy Market Liberalization and Renewable Energy Policies in OECD Countries","authors":"F. Vona, F. Nicolli","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2471001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2471001","url":null,"abstract":"We analyse the impact of market liberalisation on renewable energy policies in OECD countries. To this end, we first develop an aggregated indicator of renewable energy policies using principal components analysis and then examine its determinants through panel datatechniques. Our resultsare consistent with the predictions of political-economy models of environmental policies, as brown lobbying, proxied by entry barriers in the energy sector, and citizens' preferenceshave the expected effectson policy. Brown lobbying has a negative effect on the policy indicator, evenwhen accounting for endogeneity in its effects in a dynamic panel specification and using different policy indicators. Reducing income inequality, the ratification of the Kyoto protocol and stronger green parties all positively affect the approval of more ambitious policies but with less robust results.","PeriodicalId":266711,"journal":{"name":"PSN: Renewable Resources & Energy (Topic)","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121570032","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Simultaneous Supplies of Dirty and Green Fuels with Capacity Constraint: Is There a Green Paradox?","authors":"M. Gronwald, Ngo van Long, L. Ropke","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2317224","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2317224","url":null,"abstract":"This paper contributes to the green paradox literature by using a resource extraction framework with heterogeneous energy sources. A key feature of the model is a capacity constrained green backstop resource, which implies the simultaneous use of the expensive backstop resource and the cheaper exhaustible resources, over some interval of time. Two dirty exhaustible resources are considered, reflecting cost structure and carbon content heterogeneities of energy sources. The policies under consideration are taxation of the dirty resources and the promotion of the green resource via subsidies or capacity-increasing measures. The key findings, compared to a baseline scenario without policy intervention, are that (1) expanding the capacity of the green sector can decrease social welfare, (2) both green energy promotion measures lead to increases in short-term emissions, and (3) none of the analyzed policy measures leads to a decrease in the aggregate duration of the extraction of the exhaustible resources.","PeriodicalId":266711,"journal":{"name":"PSN: Renewable Resources & Energy (Topic)","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129719216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Analysis of Co-Pyrolysis of Wood Sawdust and Peanut Shell Mixtures as a Renewable Energy Combination","authors":"Yazhou Nie, Mengsi Deng, M. Shan, Xudong Yang","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3934303","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3934303","url":null,"abstract":"Five mixture samples of wood sawdust (WS) and peanut shell (PS) were prepared using five different mixing ratios (WS:PS=10:0, 7:3, 5:5, 3:7, and 0:10). Co-pyrolysis experiments were conducted using a thermogravimetric analyzer and Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy. Compared with WS and PS alone, W3P7 (WS:PS=3:7) increased the comprehensive pyrolysis index by 15.0–27.8 %, 20.8–96.1 %, and 17.9–88.0 % at heating rates of 10, 20, and 30 K/min, respectively. In the pyrolysis of the five samples, the reaction mechanism during the rapid mass loss period was most likely random nucleation and subsequent growth. Combined with the results of the thermodynamic and kinetic analyses, W3P7 had the best pyrolysis performance. This study can deepen the understanding of the thermochemical reaction of mixtures composed of forestry residue and crop residue, which will be helpful for further modeling and simulation of co-pyrolysis of PS and WS in the future.","PeriodicalId":266711,"journal":{"name":"PSN: Renewable Resources & Energy (Topic)","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115115075","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}