Renewable energy and geopolitics: A review

Hybrid Renewable Energy System: A Review

Renewable energy technologies are suitable for off-grid services, serving the remote areas without having to build or extend expensive and complicated grid infrastructure. Therefore standalone system using renewable energy sources have become a preferred option. This paper is a review of hybrid renewable energy power generation systems focusing on energy sustainability. It highlights the resear...

Control and Management of Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems: Review and Comparison of Methods

Hybrid renewable energy systems (HRES) have been introduced to overcome intermittent nature of single-source renewable energy generation. In order to utilize HRES optimally, two issues must be considered: optimal sizing and optimal operation. The first issue has been considered vastly in several articles but the second one needs more attention and work. The performance of hybrid renewable energ...

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...

Renewable energy portfolio standards (RPS) and achieving the optimal mix of renewable energy

Global development in terms of increased attention to environmental protection and the finite nature of fossil resources have accelerated the use of renewable energies. Renewable energy portfolio standard (RPS), is a government policy to promote the use of renewable energy in the energy consumption basket.  The RPS stipulates the minimum amount of renewable energy that each electricity supplier...

Energy Sources: Non Renewable and Renewable