ENERGY EFFICIENCY FINANCING: INNOVATIVE MODELS AND

The financing of innovative firms

Bronwyn H. Hall ([email protected]) is Professor in the Graduate School, University of California at Berkeley and Professor of Technology and the Economy at the University of Maastricht. She is also a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) in Cambridge (MA) and the Institute for Fiscal Studies, London. To what extent are new and/or innovative firms fundamen...

Energy Efficiency and Innovative Emerging Technologies for Olefin Production

Among the current IPPC installations, steam cracking for olefin production is the single most energy consuming process (ca. 30%) in the chemical industry, accounting for ca. 180 million tons of CO2 worldwide. This paper reviews steam cracking and innovative emerging olefin technologies in terms of energy efficiency. Pyrolysis section alone consumes ca. 65% of the total energy use and ca. 75% of...

Capital Control, Debt Financing and Innovative Activity

The present paper first discusses theoretically the different incentives of managerversus owner-controlled firms for investment into innovative activity. In addition, the role of debt financing is analyzed. Subsequently the results from an empirical study on the determinants of innovative activity measured by patent applications are presented. A sample of German firms covering 2,793 observation...

Energy Efficiency in Wireless Access Networks: Measurements, Models and Algorithms

Models and Control Strategies for Data Center Energy Efficiency

As the foundation of the nation’s information infrastructure, data centers have been growing rapidly in both number and capacity to meet the increasing demands for highlyresponsive computing and massive storage. Data center energy consumption doubled from 2000 to 2006, reaching a value of 60 TWh/year (Tera Watt hour / year). Coupled with increasing power and cooling demands imposed by the Moore...