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Showing 1 to 20 of 229 for “"Energy technologies"”.
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Metal oxide electrocatalysts for alternative energy technologies
… with varying applications for alternative energy technologies. Interest in utilizing clean, renewable and sustainable sources of energy for powering the planet in the future has received much attention. This will address the growing concern of the need to reduce our dependence on fossil …
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New venture commercialization of clean energy technologies
Clean energy technologies lower harmful emissions associated with the generation and use of power (e.g. CO2) and many of these technologies have been shown to be cost effective and to provide significant benefits to adopters. Examples of clean energy technologies include renewable and/or efficient …
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Water desalination and purification using renewable energy technologies
… the globe but are extremely large consumers of energy. There are several options available today which can reduce this energy demand and bring the desalination process down to a financially reasonable level. To this end, leading technologies have been explored in order to develop the best fit …
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Greenhouse gas equivalency metrics for evaluating energy technologies
… a long-standing question about how to compare energy technologies that emit different types of climate forcers during their life cycles. This problem is challenging because these forcers have dissimilar lifetimes in the atmosphere, ranging from days (black carbon) to decades (methane, CH 4) to …
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Development and Deployment of Renewable and Sustainable Energy Technologies
… are one of the most rapidly growing renewable energy sources, and is regarded as an appealing alternative to conventional power generated from fossil fuel. This is leading to significant levels of distributed renewable generation being installed on distribution circuits. Although renewable …
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Renewable energy technologies : analysis and policy tools for utility integration
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1994.
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Application of optimal control for power systems considering renewable energy technologies
Dissertation submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Engineering in Electrical Power Engineering, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2021.
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Design studies of infrastructural development for applications of hydrogen energy technologies
… around the world are trying to reduce their energy consumption, fossil fuel usage, and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. According to the International Energy Outlook 2012 released by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), the estimated fuel economy and greenhouse gas emissions …
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Modeling barriers to cost change in solar and nuclear energy technologies
… more rapidly than other electricity production technologies, while nuclear plant costs have risen. Changing costs have contributed to global energy transitions in the past, and our capacity to decarbonize the electricity sector will depend on the cost of low-carbon electricity production …
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General equilibrium impacts of new energy technologies on sectoral energy usage
… significantly. A common hypothesis is that technologies that increase substitutability or complementarity between fuels are the source of the price linkage. However, empirically measuring the effects of a gradually-penetrating technology across narrow time frames is not possible due to …
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Renewable energy technologies assessment in providing sustainable electricity to Nigerian rural areas.
… aims to investigate the viability of renewable energy technologies (RETs) and to develop a RETs implementation framework for providing sustainable electricity to Nigerias rural areas. As a result of electricity supply deficiency in Nigeria, rural communities have been negatively affected in …
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THE SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT OF RENEWABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES IN KYRGYZSTAN WITH THE MCDM MODEL.
… significant hydro, solar, wind, thermal, and bioenergy resources, one of Central Asia's renewable energy-rich countries. Despite this, Kyrgyzstan has not successfully deployed renewable energy technologies and heavily relies on fossil fuel (55%) imports (Baybagyshov & Degembaeva, 2019). …
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A methodology for decision making applied to new and renewable energy technologies in India
… need to look for new and renewable sources of energy to replace the depleting fossil-based resources has given rise to research in several prospective areas. While hydro power and bio energy has been with us long now, success and commercial viability is being achieved in solar energy …
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A review of appropriate energy technologies for household use in underdeveloped areas in South Africa
The development of technologies and structures providing energy for household use in South Africa have for many years been dominated by the needs of "white" households. While these needs have been comprehensively met through cheap and efficient energy supplies, the needs of those in the "homelands" …
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Are distributed energy technologies a viable alternative for institutional settings? : lessons from MIT Cogeneration Plant
During the last decades, distributed energy (DE) resources received considerable attention and support because of the confluence of technology development - particularly gas turbines - and deregulation - which would allow access to the distribution systems. DE was seen as addressing numerous …
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The diffusion of modern energy technologies in low-income settings - evidence from rural sub-Saharan Africa
… collection of three chapters responds to today’s energy challenges. It explores innovative policy aimed to equip the energy poor with access to improved cooking energy and electricity, looking both at the demand and supply side of modern energy technologies. Concretely, it discusses mechanisms to …
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A techno-economic study of energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies for supermarkets in South Africa
… a techno-economic analysis for the use of both energy efficient and renewable energy technologies in supermarkets to determine the best options to implement to reduce grid electricity consumption, and its resulting carbon emissions in a cost-effective way.
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Business & technology strategies to promote the development and commercialization of alternative energy technologies like fuel cells
… expansion around the globe, there is a greater energy demand to sustain this growth. Increasing energy demand has resulted in increase in energy prices and increase in emission levels. While conventional energy technologies have advantage in terms of established infrastructure and lower cost, …
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Copper(I) phenanthroline complexes and supramolecular systems containing fullerenes: Photophysics, photochemistry and potential applications in sustainable energy technologies.
… to modify our inefficient and fossil-fuel based energy system. The present work was motivated by the search for efficient photoactive materials to be employed in the context of the energy problem: materials to be utilized in energy efficient devices and in the production of renewable electricity …
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