Financing large-scale renewable-energy projects in Kenya: investor types, international connections, and financialization

Designing a model for financing renewable energy projects for sustainable economic development with total interpretive structural model

One of the country's issues in the renewable energy sector for sustainable development is their financing. The current research was carried out with the aim of deeply understanding the dimensions, components and indicators of renewable energy financing and explaining the causal relationships between them in order to design a suitable model using a mixed (qualitative-quantitative) approach. In t...

Implications of diurnal and seasonal variations in renewable energy generation for large scale energy storage

Economic Growth and Renewable Energy in Iran

Energy plays an active role in sustainable development in Iran, both in the sustainable and the development aspects. This study aims to estimate the nexus of economic growth and the renewable energy in Iran during 1981-2012. We employ the Auto-Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model to estimate a log-linear equation. The results suggest that renewable energy consumption is an insignificant driv...

A Fuzzy Decision-Making Methodology for Risk Response Planning in Large-Scale Projects

Risk response planning is one of the main phases in the project risk management and has major impacts on the success of a large-scale project. Since projects are unique, and risks are dynamic through the life of the projects, it is necessary to formulate responses of the important risks. The conventional approaches tend to be less effective in dealing with the impreciseness of risk response p...

Coordinated resource scheduling in a large scale virtual power plant considering demand response and energy storages

Virtual power plant (VPP) is an effective approach to aggregate distributed generation resources under a central control. This paper introduces a mixed-integer linear programming model for optimal scheduling of the internal resources of a large scale VPP in order to maximize its profit. The proposed model studies the effect of a demand response (DR) program on the scheduling of the VPP. The pro...