{"title":"En Route for the Accomplishment of SDG-7 in South Asian Countries: A Retrospective Study","authors":"V. Katekar, S. Deshmukh","doi":"10.13052/10.13052/spee1048-4236.4031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13052/10.13052/spee1048-4236.4031","url":null,"abstract":"With one-fifth of the world’s population, South Asian nations are home to 37 percent of the world’s poor and 50 percent of the world’s hungry children. This region experiences enormous development and infrastructure challenges. The paper investigates the progress of South Asian countries on Sustainable Development Goal-7, which is associated with access to modern energy to all. The present research also highlights significant issues and challenges behind the slow progress of South Asian countries on SDG-7. This study indicates that Bhutan and India are top-performing countries; however, Pakistan and Afghanistan are lower-performing countries on SDG-7 among all other South Asian countries. It has also been observed that South Asian countries have a narrow focus on renewable energy. South Asian nations will address their energy shortages issue and save a lot of money by using renewable energy instead of importing hydrocarbons. South Asian nations must diversify their main energy consumption patterns to achieve SDG-7. They may address their energy concerns at the policy, economic, technological, and information levels and boost cross-border energy commerce.","PeriodicalId":35712,"journal":{"name":"Strategic Planning for Energy and the Environment","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47352505","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}
M. Ergün, Saliha Memiş, Selçuk Korucuk, Çağlar Karamaşa
{"title":"Rating the Sustainable Energy Problems in Manufacturing Businesses and Selecting the Best Energy Security Policy: The Case of Samsun","authors":"M. Ergün, Saliha Memiş, Selçuk Korucuk, Çağlar Karamaşa","doi":"10.13052/10.13052/spee1048-4236.4025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13052/10.13052/spee1048-4236.4025","url":null,"abstract":"Today, economic development and development are extremely important. With the increasing need for energy in both the world and Turkish economy, the importance of ensuring the sustainability of the energy resources used and the security of energy supply is also increasing. Implementation of a sustainable energy system; It includes important factors such as efficient energy use together with sufficient, economical, safe and environmentally compatible energy supply. Energy is one of the main factors to consider in discussions of sustainable development. The main dimensions of sustainability in energy production are environmental protection and the economically and socially sustainable supply of energy resources in a way that is reliable, sufficient and financially accessible in the long run. For this reason, it is important for Turkey to identify sustainable energy problems and determine the right energy policy. In this study, the determination of sustainable energy problems and the problems of determining the right energy security policy in manufacturing enterprises in Samsun province in Turkey were made with multi-criteria decision making methods. As a result of this research, the most ideal energy security policy was “Resource Sharing” in the selection created by using the degrees of sustainable energy related problems in manufacturing enterprises. On the other hand, the most ideal energy security alternatives were realized as Resource Sharing (A4)>> Source Distribution (A3)>> Resource Diversification (A1)>> Price Security (A2), respectively.","PeriodicalId":35712,"journal":{"name":"Strategic Planning for Energy and the Environment","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66116486","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":"Renewable Energy and Economic Efficiency in the Framework of Sustainable Development: Malmquist Index and Tobit Model","authors":"Eda Bozkurt","doi":"10.13052/10.13052/spee1048-4236.4024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13052/10.13052/spee1048-4236.4024","url":null,"abstract":"Today, energy is as important as labour, capital and technology for the growth of countries. As countries grow economically, they try to achieve the same or more amounts of output with fewer inputs. In other words, countries target efficiency based growth. As the economic growth of countries increases, their energy requirements also increase. Regarding countries that are not rich in domestic resources, this increase, imposes significant costs. On the other hand, the finite energy supply in countries rich in domestic resources is an important problem. That is why the phenomenon of renewable energy has become a trend all over the world. In addition to reducing import dependence on energy, new policies are required to reduce the effects of climate changes and to protect natural resources. That is why; renewable energy and economic efficiency are an attractive research area. In the study, efficiency scores were obtained by calculating the Malmquist total factor productivity index in the period 1992–2018 for 10 countries among the N11 countries. Then, the efficiency values obtained by using the two stage estimation method were used as the dependent variables. The test results based on Tobit regression indicated that the increase in the supply of renewable energy positively increases economic efficiency. It can be said that the supply of renewable energy will lead to economic efficiency in the future.","PeriodicalId":35712,"journal":{"name":"Strategic Planning for Energy and the Environment","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48442182","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":"PEST Analysis of Sports Characteristic Town Construction Under the Background of “Healthy China”","authors":"Mengnan Xie","doi":"10.13052/10.13052/spee1048-4236.4023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13052/10.13052/spee1048-4236.4023","url":null,"abstract":"Sport is psychoactive and work, other than for professional sport, is generally not taken into account. The important distinctive defining feature of sport is that competition must occur against, or against, an opponent. In order to remain competitive, an activity must be declared a victor by one of the participants. The activity is simply stress free without competition. This paper analyzes the macro environment of the construction of small towns with Chinese sports characteristics by literature study, logical analysis and PEST analysis. The results are as follows: the political environment: national policies and regulations are clear, and local governments can actively promote and carry out the construction of small towns with sports characteristics; the economic environment: the sports industry will be the pillar industry of stable economic growth, and the construction of small towns with sports contains huge economy consumption potential; social environment: people have a strong interest in sports culture, and national health has become a national strategy; technology environment: “Internet plus” and science & technology can provide huge technical support for the construction of sports featured towns. Optimization path: improve policies and government supervision, and plan reasonably; strengthen environmental protection, and carry forward traditional sports culture; create “sports plus” industrial ecosystem, and enhance regional economic development; innovate scientifically and cultivate construction talents.","PeriodicalId":35712,"journal":{"name":"Strategic Planning for Energy and the Environment","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48938191","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":"Evaluation of Digital Rural Development from the Perspective of Rural Revitalization – Take Zhejiang Province as an Example","authors":"Songyan Zhang, Simin Wu","doi":"10.13052/10.13052/spee1048-4236.4022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13052/10.13052/spee1048-4236.4022","url":null,"abstract":"The construction of the digital village is a combination of the concept of digital economy and the strategy of rural revitalization, which requires a correct understanding and scientific evaluation. Taking Zhejiang Province as the research object, based on the actual situation and the connotation of digital villages, a digital village indicator system was constructed from the two dimensions of digital village development capacity and development effectiveness, and the relative entropy TOPSIS method was used to analyze the digital villages in Zhejiang Province from 2016 to 2019. Compare and evaluate the development level. The results show that the development of digital villages in Zhejiang Province has achieved remarkable results, and the development level of digital villages has been improved year by year. Among them, the index scores of industry digitalization, governance digitalization, service digitalization, digital life, agricultural production, farmers’ prosperity, and rural prosperity have achieved stable or rapid growth. The close value of TOPSIS is increasing year by year. Finally, it puts forward countermeasures and suggestions to promote the development of digital villages across the country.","PeriodicalId":35712,"journal":{"name":"Strategic Planning for Energy and the Environment","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46081251","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":"Asta-Ja and Energy Security in Nepal","authors":"D. Poudel","doi":"10.13052/spee1048-4236.4021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13052/spee1048-4236.4021","url":null,"abstract":"Energy independence and sustainable renewable energy sources are the two main components of energy security for Nepal. More than 2/3rd of energy consumed in Nepal comes from biofuels and waste and about 1/4th of energy consumed comes from coal and petroleum products. With increasing number of motor vehicles and rising demand for cooking gas, Nepal’s coal and petroleum import bills in recent years have reached over Rs. 200 billion. With its vast water resources, Nepal has a great potential for energy independence and sustainability and achieve energy security. Nepal’s current 1,689 MW hydroelectricity capacity is expected to reach over 5,000 MW in next three to five years, which means Nepal will have a large amount of clean energy in the market. This increased hydropower production will also require an increased domestic consumption by making hydroelectricity affordable, reliable, and high-quality energy by improving its distribution system. Nepal also has a very high potential for solar power, which need to be harnessed and brought to the national grid. Nepal needs to harness all energy sources, which consist of hydropower, solar power, wind power, biofuels, and biogas, in a sustainable way for its energy independence and security. Because Nepal is in a geologically active and natural disasters prone area, it is critical to ensure ecological balance of Asta-Ja elements, Nepali letter, Jal (water), Jamin (land), Jungle (forest), Jadibuti (medicinal and aromatic plants), Janashakti (manpower), Janawar (animal), Jarajuri (crop plants) and Jalabayu (climate) while developing energy resources. Asta-Ja Framework serves as the connecting bridge between the energy resources and the end users. Strategic planning for comprehensive energy development considering ecological balance of Asta-Ja resources, decarbonization and electrification of energy end uses, improvement of energy infrastructures, continuous monitoring and evaluation of energy sector, and development of hydropower plants and alternative energy sources such as solar and wind is suggested for energy security in Nepal.","PeriodicalId":35712,"journal":{"name":"Strategic Planning for Energy and the Environment","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47395295","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}
N. Vukovic, Ulyana Koriugina, Daria Illarionova, Daria Pankratova, Polina Kiseleva, A. Gontareva
{"title":"Towards Smart Green Cities: Analysis of Integrated Renewable Energy Use in Smart Cities","authors":"N. Vukovic, Ulyana Koriugina, Daria Illarionova, Daria Pankratova, Polina Kiseleva, A. Gontareva","doi":"10.13052/SPEE1048-5236.4015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13052/SPEE1048-5236.4015","url":null,"abstract":"This study aims to estimate and explore the experience of introducing renewable energy use in the context of the world’s smart cities. In this regard, the study points out that the use of green energy is an important part of sustainable development. Environmental problems are a matter of global concern. Hence sustainable development is one of the approaches to end the harmful anthropogenic impact. The work includes quantitative assessment methods, for example, statistics, quantitative analysis, analogy, and synthesis. As a result, the analysis confirms that the effective development of a smart green city is impossible without the introduction of several renewable energy sources, the integrated use of which will reduce the likelihood of problems with the city’s energy supply. Likewise, the outcome accentuates that the desire to fully switch to renewable energy sources (RES) can be accompanied by several problems as the creation of RES technologies does not always take the risk of abnormal situations into account. In conclusion, the research findings are recommended to be taken into consideration by researchers in the field of smart and sustainable cities development, as well as urbanists and economists for designing future smart green cities based on renewable energy sources.","PeriodicalId":35712,"journal":{"name":"Strategic Planning for Energy and the Environment","volume":"362 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41274366","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":"Setting Up Optimal Meteorological Networks: An Example From Italy","authors":"R. Aromolo, V. Moretti, T. Sorgi","doi":"10.13052/SPEE1048-5236.4013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13052/SPEE1048-5236.4013","url":null,"abstract":"A permanent assessment of climate regime in forest sites has a key role in forest resource conservation and preservation of ecosystem services, biodiversity and landscape multi-functionality, informing sustainable forest management. In this view, time-series of meteorological data relative to several monitoring sites from the ICP-Forest network in Italy, were analyzed with the aim to define the number of site-specific observations, which can be considered adequate for further analysis on forest resource management. The relative importance of each factor accounted in our analysis (season, year, variable, plot, sampling proportion) was investigated comparing results through the use of descriptive statistics.","PeriodicalId":35712,"journal":{"name":"Strategic Planning for Energy and the Environment","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44860293","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":"Real Power Loss Reduction by Cinnamon ibon Search Optimization Algorithm","authors":"L. Kanagasabai","doi":"10.13052/SPEE1048-5236.4014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13052/SPEE1048-5236.4014","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper Cinnamon ibon Search Optimization Algorithm (CSOA) is used for solving the power loss lessening problem. Key objectives of the paper are Real power Loss reduction, Voltage stability enhancement and minimization of Voltage deviation. Searching and scavenging behavior of Cinnamon ibon has been imitated to model the algorithm. Cinnamon ibon birds which are in supremacy of the group are trustworthy to be hunted by predators and dependably attempt to achieve a improved position and the Cinnamon ibon ones that are positioned in the inner of the population, drive adjacent to the nearer populations to dodge the threat of being confronted. The systematic model of the Cinnamon ibon search Algorithm originates with an arbitrary individual of Cinnamon ibon. The Cinnamon ibon search algorithm entities show the position of the Cinnamon ibon. Besides, the Cinnamon ibon bird is supple in using the cooperating plans and it alternates between the fabricator and the cadger. Successively the Cinnamon ibon identifies the predator position; then they charm the others by tweeting signs. The cadgers would be focussed to the imperilled regions by fabricators once the fear cost is more than the defence threshold. Likewise, the subterfuge of both the cadger and the fabricator is commonly used by Cinnamon ibon. The dispersion of the Cinnamon ibon location in the solution area is capricious. An impulsive drive approach was applied when dispossession of any adjacent Cinnamon ibon in the purlieu of the present population. This style diminishes the convergence tendency and decreases the convergence inexorableness grounded on the controlled sum of iterations. Authenticity of the Cinnamon ibon Search Optimization Algorithm (CSOA) is corroborated in IEEE 30 bus system (with and devoid of L-index). Genuine power loss lessening is attained. Proportion of actual power loss lessening is amplified.","PeriodicalId":35712,"journal":{"name":"Strategic Planning for Energy and the Environment","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45353388","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":"Adaptive Dragonfly Optimization Based Placement of Capacitor Banks for Voltage Stability Enhancement in Distribution Networks","authors":"B. Babu","doi":"10.13052/SPEE1048-5236.4012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13052/SPEE1048-5236.4012","url":null,"abstract":"The present day ever escalating power demand moves the operating point of the distribution networks in the vicinity of the voltage stability boundaries. Any small reactive power unbalance between the generation and demand may trigger voltage instability, which makes the voltage magnitude to fall slowly until a rapid change occurs. This paper presents an adaptive dragonfly optimization based method for placement of shunt capacitor banks with a view of improving the voltage stability besides enhancing the voltage profile and lowering the network losses. Simulation results on 33 and 69-node distribution networks exhibit the greater performances of the suggested algorithm.","PeriodicalId":35712,"journal":{"name":"Strategic Planning for Energy and the Environment","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43476513","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}