The electricity markets have undergone significant changes during the last years. On the one hand, the market deregulation has increased significantly the uncertainty on future electricity prices. On the other hand, the Kyoto protocol and the establishment of emission restrictions, as well as the development of emission trading systems has added another expense stream for conventional fuel elec...

renewable energy sources (res), especially wind power plants, have high priority of promotion in the energy policies worldwide. an increasing share of res and distributed generation (dg), should, as has been assumed, provide improvement in reliability of electricity delivery to the customers. paper presented here concentrates on electricity storage systems technologies and applications pinpoint...

Computable general equilibrium (CGE) models are ubiquitous in energy and environmental economics research. Recent technological advancements in electricity fuels, generation technologies, and environmental policies which target specific generation technologies (e.g., emission regulations) have motivated detailed CGE modeling of the electricity sector. Modeling these issues requires distinct ele...

Energy resources are classified as renewable and non-renewable in general. Non renewable energy resources have been exhausted gradually. Renewable energy resources such as wind power, hydropower, geothermal power, solar power and photovoltaic power have importance more than ever before. But, researchers are looking for selections of renewable electricity generation as it is a technological prob...

Abstract Buildings are responsible for over 40% of total primary energy consumption in the US and EU therefore improving building efficiency has significant potential obtaining net-zero buildings reducing consumption. The concurrent demands environmental comfort need to improve both new existing have motivated research into finding solutions regulation incoming solar radiation, as well ensuring...

Photovoltaic (PV) technologies have shown remarkable progress recently in terms of annual production capacity and life cycle environmental performances, which necessitate timelyupdatesofenvironmental indicators.BasedonPVproduction data of 2004–2006, this study presents the life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions, criteria pollutant emissions, and heavy metal emissions from four types of major comme...

Photovoltaic (PV) technologies have shown remarkable progress recently in terms of annual production capacity and life cycle environmental performances, which necessitate timely updates of environmental indicators. Based on PV production data of 2004-2006, this study presents the life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions, criteria pollutant emissions, and heavy metal emissions from four types of majo...

This paper introduces the application of mean-variance portfolio theory to portfolios generating multiple forms of energy such as electricity, heating or cooling power. Portfolio theory has already been successfully applied to several cases of electricity generation planning. A general extension of this method to an arbitrary number of output energies will be developed in this paper. Instead of...

Remarkably higher expected shares of variable renewable energy sources for electricity generation (RES-Electricity) than those available today will be a great challenge for the European power system. Bulk electricity storage technologies— that is, pumped hydro energy storage—are considered a key component while facing these future challenges. The conducted analysis is based on the modeling resu...