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Techno-economic analysis for the role of single end energy user in mitigating GHG emission

Households, as end energy users, consume grid electricity to meet their energy demands. However, grids across the globe for energy production are majorly based on fossil fuel technology and make the highest co...

Authors: Waqas Ahmed, Jamil Ahmed Sheikh, Muhammad Nouman, Mian Farhan Ullah and M. A. Parvez Mahmud

How does satisfaction of solar PV users enhance their trust in the power grid? - Evidence from PPAPs in rural China

Photovoltaic Poverty Alleviation Projects (PPAPs) have been implemented in Chinese rural areas since 2014. As a new energy policy, PPAPs have played an important role in alleviating rural poverty. However, the...

Authors: Liping Ding, Yin Shi, Chenchen He, Qiyao Dai, Zumeng Zhang, Jiaxin Li and Ling Zhou

Renewable energy and population growth for sustainable development in the Southeast Asian countries

The energy–environment–growth nexus has been examined for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) region, mainly using time series data. However, the important role of renewable energy and populatio...

Authors: Duc Hong Vo and Anh The Vo

Who buys certified firewood? Individual determinants of clean fuel adoption for promoting the sustainable energy transition in southern Chile

Temuco and Padre Las Casas, Chile, have severe problems of air pollution due to the extensive use of firewood for heating. The local authorities have made various efforts to improve fuel quality and introduce ...

Authors: Boris Álvarez, Àlex Boso, Ignacio Rodríguez, Álvaro Hofflinger and Arturo Vallejos-Romero

Towards sustainable energy culture in the industrial sector: introducing an interdisciplinary method for understanding energy culture in business industries

There have been numerous research papers focusing on improving energy consumption and energy behaviour in domestic and residential contexts. However, workplaces and especially industry settings have gained les...

Authors: Virpi Oksman, Francesco Reda, Sami Karjalainen, Hassam ur Rehman and Zarrin Fatima

Powering jobs: the employment footprint of clean cooking solutions in Kenya

The delivery of clean cooking access to the 1.2 billion people who cook with charcoal, kerosene, and firewood may have a strong localized employment impact. With the challenge of a rapidly expanding youth popu...

Authors: Chih-Jung Lee, Rebekah Shirley, Maureen Otieno and Hope Nyambura

Information flow to increase support for tidal energy development in remote islands of a developing country: agent-based simulation of information flow in Flores Timur Regency, Indonesia

Public awareness is crucial for successful deployment of tidal energy, a renewable energy source that can provide clean electricity to remote islands. However, considering public attitudes on tidal energy are ...

Authors: Rohit Ramachandran, A. H. T. Shyam Kularathna, Hirotaka Matsuda and Ken Takagi

Linking qualitative scenarios with quantitative energy models: knowledge integration in different methodological designs

Linking qualitative scenarios with quantitative models is a common approach to integrate assumptions on possible future societal contexts into modeling. But reflection on how and to what degree knowledge is ef...

Authors: Sigrid Prehofer, Hannah Kosow, Tobias Naegler, Thomas Pregger, Stefan Vögele and Wolfgang Weimer-Jehle

Trends and dynamics of material and energy flows in an urban context: a case study of a city with an emerging economy

Currently, most of the world’s population lives in cities, and the rapid urbanization of the population is driving increases in the demand for products, goods and services. To effectively design policies for u...

Authors: Clara Inés Pardo Martínez, William Alfonso Piña, Angelo Facchini and Alexander Cotte Poveda

Technical reliability of shipboard technologies for the application of alternative fuels

Naval traffic is highly dependent on depleting fossil resources and causes significant greenhouse gas emissions. At the same time, marine transportation is a major backbone of world trade. Thus, alternative fu...

Authors: Lukas Popp and Karsten Müller

The intention of households in the Daklak province to instal smart grid rooftop solar electricity systems

Smart grid rooftop solar electricity is a useful power resource and a viable alternative to conventionally generated energy. In the context of Vietnam, it could help people control their own source of electric...

Authors: Tran Thi Lan, Sopin Jirakiattikul, Le Duc Niem and Kuaanan Techato

Correction to: The incandescent light bulb phase-out: exploring patterns of framing the governance of discontinuing a socio-technical regime

An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

Authors: Peter Stegmaier, Vincent R. Visser and Stefan Kuhlmann

Managing sustainability risks of bioenergy in four Nordic countries

Bioenergy plays a key role in the transition to a sustainable economy in Europe, but its own sustainability is being questioned. We study the experiences of Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Norway, to find out whe...

Authors: Anders Chr. Hansen, Nicholas Clarke and Atle Wehn Hegnes

Policy-relevant insights for regional renewable energy deployment

The paper explores how regional actors engage with energy systems, flows and infrastructures in order to meet particular goals and offers a fine-tuned analysis of how differences arise, highlighting the policy...

Authors: Carla De Laurentis and Peter J. G. Pearson

Correction to: Governing sustainability of bioenergy, biomaterial and bioproduct supply chains from forest and agricultural landscapes

An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

Authors: Inge Stupak, C. Tattersall Smith and Nicholas Clarke

Editorial Expression of Concern: Brette Pearl Spar Mable (BPSM): a potential recoverable catalyst as a renewable source of biodiesel from Thevetia peruviana seed oil for the benefit of sustainable development in West Africa

An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

Authors: T. F. Adepoju, B. E. Olatunbosun, O. M. Olatunji and M. A. Ibeh

Household willingness to adopt a single-stage solar-supported hyper-thermophilic anaerobic biogas digester in Ghana

Sustainability of energy is key for quality life; thus, the use of clean energy at the household level warrants moving from fossil-based energy to modern forms like biogas. However, the joint interactive effec...

Authors: Isaac Mbir Bryant and Abdul-Rahaman Afitiri

Analyzing German consumers’ willingness to pay for green electricity tariff attributes: a discrete choice experiment

In order to achieve an environmentally friendly and sustainable energy supply, it is necessary that this goal is supported by society. In different countries worldwide it has been shown that one way consumers ...

Authors: M. Danne, S. Meier-Sauthoff and O. Musshoff

The incandescent light bulb phase-out: exploring patterns of framing the governance of discontinuing a socio-technical regime

This paper aims at a better understanding of the governance of the abandonment of socio-technical regimes through the example of the incandescent light bulb phase-out in the European Union and in the Netherlan...

Authors: Peter Stegmaier, Vincent R. Visser and Stefan Kuhlmann

Combining the worlds of energy systems and material flow analysis: a review

Recent studies focusing on greenhouse gas emission reduction strategies indicate that material recycling has a significant impact on energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. The question arises how the...

Authors: Felix Kullmann, Peter Markewitz, Detlef Stolten and Martin Robinius

Governing sustainability of bioenergy, biomaterial and bioproduct supply chains from forest and agricultural landscapes

Authors: Inge Stupak, C. Tattersall Smith and Nicholas Clarke

Correction to: Effects of the German Renewable Energy Sources Act and environmental, social and economic factors on biogas plant adoption and agricultural land use change

An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

Authors: Xueqing Yang, Yang Liu, Daniela Thrän, Alberto Bezama and Mei Wang

Sustainable forest biomass: a review of current residue harvesting guidelines

Forest biomass harvesting guidelines help ensure the ecological sustainability of forest residue harvesting for bioenergy and bioproducts, and hence contribute to social license for a growing bioeconomy. Guide...

Authors: Brian D. Titus, Kevin Brown, Heljä-Sisko Helmisaari, Elena Vanguelova, Inge Stupak, Alexander Evans, Nicholas Clarke, Claudia Guidi, Viktor J. Bruckman, Iveta Varnagiryte-Kabasinskiene, Kęstutis Armolaitis, Wim de Vries, Keizo Hirai, Lilli Kaarakka, Karen Hogg and Pam Reece

Good living of communities and sustainability of the hydropower business: mapping an operational framework for benefit sharing

The negative impact of hydropower companies is cushioned frequently through compensation that is proportional neither to the needs of communities nor to the energy business. Considering the dependence of hydro...

Authors: Indira Jiménez-Inchima, Jorge-Andrés Polanco and Manuela Escobar-Sierra

Energy planning for an eco-city based on a distributed energy network

In China, traditional energy planning is subordinate to city planning, with a primary purpose of meeting the energy demand in urban areas by planning and designing an energy system. However, most of the curren...

Authors: Xiaojun Zhu, Jianhua Zhu, Bencheng Wu, Minsheng Liu, Guoqing Wang, Zhenqi Zhu, Zhongxue Gan, Jing Zhang and Chuizhou Meng

Central versus wellhead power plants in geothermal grid electricity generation

The long gestation period, high upfront costs and the risks in the development of central geothermal power plants are the main reasons for the slow rate of geothermal electricity growth and its contribution to...

Authors: Moses Jeremiah Barasa Kabeyi and Oludolapo A. Olanrewaju

Effects of the German Renewable Energy Sources Act and environmental, social and economic factors on biogas plant adoption and agricultural land use change

The German energy transition strategy calls for a reform of the German energy sector. As a result, the German Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG) passed in 2000 is widely regarded as successful legislation for ...

Authors: Xueqing Yang, Yang Liu, Daniela Thrän, Alberto Bezama and Mei Wang

Conceptual framework for increasing legitimacy and trust of sustainability governance

While the quantity of sustainability governance initiatives and systems has increased dramatically, crises persist over whether specific governance systems can be trusted as legitimate regulators of the sustai...

Authors: Inge Stupak, Maha Mansoor and C. Tattersall Smith

Competing socio-technical narratives in times of grid capacity challenges: the representative case of Sweden

Around the globe the electricity sector is strikingly similar, as regardless of nation it is structured around centralized large-scale power production. However, these centralized systems are currently experie...

Authors: Frans Libertson

Transnational sustainability certification for the bioeconomy? Patterns and discourse coalitions of resistance and alternatives in biomass exporting regions

The bioeconomy is nowadays widely proclaimed by governments and corporations around the world as a new paradigm for a sustainable economy. Essentially, it broadly denotes the promotion, development and establi...

Authors: Thomas Vogelpohl

Multilevel governance energy planning and policy: a view on local energy initiatives

A sustainable energy system based on renewables, energy-efficiency, decentralisation of energy generation and synergies between different sectors requires new energy planning methods and policies. Energy trans...

Authors: Viktorija Dobravec, Nikola Matak, Christian Sakulin and Goran Krajačić

Embedding the United Nations sustainable development goals into energy systems analysis: expanding the food–energy–water nexus

There have been numerous studies that consider the nexus interactions between energy systems, land use, water use and climate adaptation and impacts. These studies have filled a gap in the literature to allow ...

Authors: Taco Niet, Nastaran Arianpoo, Kamaria Kuling and Andrew S. Wright

Energy landscapes of today and tomorrow

Authors: Daniela Thrän, Erik Gawel and Dagmar Fiedler

Temporal and spatial availability of cereal straw in Germany—Case study: Biomethane for the transport sector

By 2030, the German transport sector needs to achieve additional greenhouse gas savings of 67 million tonnes CO₂-eq. and further progress requires swiftly implementable solutions. The fermentation of cereal straw...

Authors: André Brosowski, Ralf Bill and Daniela Thrän

A consolidated potential analysis of bio-methane and e-methane using two different methods for a medium-term renewable gas supply in Germany

The German energy transition has entered a new phase and one important aspect is the question, to what degree the gas sector could be supplied with so-called “green” gases, i.e., gases from renewable sources. ...

Authors: Patrick Matschoss, Michael Steubing, Joachim Pertagnol, Yue Zheng, Bernhard Wern, Martin Dotzauer and Daniela Thrän

Heat consumption scenarios in the rural residential sector: the potential of heat pump-based demand-side management for sustainable heating

Poor air quality and inadequate domestic heating sources are tightly connected problems in the Eastern-European countryside. There are a few alternatives to comprehensively solve these problems with an emphasi...

Authors: José Campos, Csaba Csontos, Ádám Harmat, Gábor Csüllög and Béla Munkácsy

Valorization of organic waste fractions: a theoretical study on biomethane production potential and the recovery of N and P in Austria

Due to climate change and the rising world population, sustainable energy and fertilizer production faces many challenges. The utilization of organic waste fractions is one possible solution for promoting sust...

Authors: Daniel C. Rosenfeld, Johannes Lindorfer and Markus Ellersdorfer

Transitioning to a sustainable development framework for bioenergy in Malaysia: policy suggestions to catalyse the utilisation of palm oil mill residues

The global commitment to climate change mitigation enforces the worldwide development of renewable energy sources. Therefore, various studies have investigated the growth of renewable energy in Malaysia, most ...

Authors: Siti Fatihah Salleh, Mohd Eqwan Mohd Roslan, Adlansyah Abd Rahman, Abdul Halim Shamsuddin, Tuan Ab Rashid Tuan Abdullah and Benjamin K. Sovacool

Correction to: A review of the trends in Ghana’s power sector

An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

Authors: Maame Esi Eshun and Joe Amoako-Tuffour

Stakeholder perceptions about sustainability governance in the German biogas sector

Since the steady growth of the German biogas sector, its sustainability is subject to constant scrutiny, especially economic and environmental sustainability. Public concerns about sustainability of biogas sta...

Authors: Thomas Horschig, Kay Schaubach, Catharina Sutor and Daniela Thrän

Exploring the influencing factors of continuous crop residue supply: from the perspective of a sustainable and bioenergy-oriented crop cultivation

Crop residues are an important raw material for bioenergy. There is, however, obvious seasonality in crop harvests, and thus, a continuous supply of crop residues and its respective influencing factors should ...

Authors: Xin Long Xu, Hsing Hung Chen and Yi Li

Deep learning-based estimation of PV power plant potential under climate change: a case study of El Akarit, Tunisia

Several climatologists and experts in the renewable energy field agree that GHI and DNI calculation models must be revised because of the increasingly unpredictable and powerful climatic disturbances. The cons...

Authors: Afef Ben Othman, Ayoub Ouni and Mongi Besbes

Energy efficiency in an integrated agro-ecosystem within an acidic soil area of the Mekong Delta, Vietnam

Both exergy and energy analysis methodologies are used for analysing energy efficiencies in various processes, including agriculture. This study focuses on the connection of three main process components (husb...

Authors: Nguyen Thi Thu Thao, Tra Van Tung, Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao, Son Le Thanh, Sibylle Braunegg, Gerhart Braunegg, Hans Schnitzer and Le Thanh Hai

Renewable energy consumption in Africa: the role of economic well-being and economic freedom

This study investigates the role of economic well-being and economic freedom as drivers of renewable energy consumption using the share of renewables in total energy consumption in Africa. To achieve this, the...

Authors: Anthony Amoah, Edmund Kwablah, Kofi Korle and Daniel Offei

Market development and consequences on end-of-life management of photovoltaic implementation in Europe

The 2018 European Renewables Directive sets a binding target of 32% of renewable energy generation by 2030. Free-field photovoltaic plants are characterised by significant land use and material flows. Although...

Authors: Manuela Franz and Gerhard Piringer

Assessment of a decentralized grid-connected photovoltaic (PV) / wind / biogas hybrid power system in northern Nigeria

Electricity is considered a fundamental service which is highly correlated with sustainable development. Nigeria will serve as a case study that has been experiencing an energy deficit, and severely needs a st...

Authors: Ismail Abubakar Jumare, Ramchandra Bhandari and Abdellatif Zerga

Energy decisions within an applied ethics framework: an analysis of five recent controversies

Everywhere in the world, and in every period of human history, it has been common for energy decisions to be made in an ethically haphazard manner. With growing population pressure and increasing demand for en...

Authors: Jacob Bethem, Giovanni Frigo, Saurabh Biswas, C. Tyler DesRoches and Martin Pasqualetti

Stakeholders’ satisfaction as a key determinant of critical success factors in renewable energy projects

Renewable energy projects (REPs) are critical to providing a clean and sustainable environmental perspective alongside the economic prosperity of any country. Unfortunately, recent trends in renewable energy p...

Authors: Rashid Maqbool, Xiaomei Deng and Yahya Rashid

Cultivation of microalgae for biofuel production: coupling with sugarcane-processing factories

Despite their potential as biofuel resources, large-scale production of biofuels from microalgae is still uncertain primarily due to a lack of feasibility of the process and that it proves to be capital and en...

Authors: Deribew Tefera Zewdie and Abubeker Yimam Ali

The energy potential of soft rush (Juncus effusus L.) in different conversion routes

Rushes are prominent wetland plants that are well adapted to conditions of waterlogging. Tall rushes like soft rush (Juncus effusus L.) tend to dominate the vegetation and offer a great biomass potential. Removin...

Authors: Jürgen Müller, Christian Jantzen and Denny Wiedow