Clean Energy System for Sustainable Growth

Hybrid Energy System Simulation for Sustainable Energy Utilization

Complex power generation scheduling, correlated uncertainties, environmental issues and hybrid energy system modeling have become very important research topics due to rapid growth of large-scale distributed renewable energy system, deregulated electric power markets and responsive demand. The intermittent nature of the primal energy sources (i.e. wind, sun, water) increases uncertainty as well...

A Technical and Distributed Management Basis for an Environmentally Clean and Sustainable Energy Supply

Rising market prices for energy, an apparent future shortage in fossil fuels, and alarming reports on pollution through CO2 are causing a world-wide trend towards renewable and ecologically clean forms of energy. We report about ongoing work in the R&D project DEZENT establishing renewable electric energy supply and eventually replacing fossil energy sources. Producers are at the same time also...

Environment, energy and sustainable economic growth

Sustainable energy utilization and environmental protection are important to sustainable economic growth. In this paper, we develop an endogenous economic growth model and discuss the optimal path of sustainable economic growth with the constraints of energy and environment. We find that sustainable economic growth can be achieved only when the relative contribution rate of environment protecti...

Energy, complexity and sustainable long-term growth

We introduce the concept of product complexity in an endogenous growth model with renewable energy and expanding product variety à la Grossman-Helpman (1991). We describe the complexity of a product as an increasing function of the variety of inputs it consists of. Considering that energy is necessary to all human activities (including research), we highlight what type of long run growth path i...

Materials for Clean Energy Conversion