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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"Renewable energy technology"”.
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Research and development in novel alternative renewable energy technology.
Fossil fuels have become the main energy source for human after the Industrial Revolution. However, with ever-increasing energy consumption, they are not sustainable in terms of their finite reserves, pollutions to the environment and contributions to climate change. Driven by these problems, the …
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Implementing Climate Policy and Renewable Energy Technology – The Role of Lobbying
… Understanding how to effectively implement renewable energy technology and climate policy will be vital for moving climate legislation forwards in coming years. This thesis analyzes the role that fossil fuel companies play in lobbying on climate legislation, and uses theoretical models of …
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Incorporating the Delphi Technique to investigate renewable energy technology transfer in Saudi Arabia
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Cost-effective allocation of public funding to promote the commercialization of renewable energy technology
The need for new Renewable Energy Technologies (RETs) is growing with the challenge of providing affordable electricity under increasing environmental and public health constraints while promoting energy security and improved energy access. Governments have chosen to intervene in the …
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A machine learning approach to evaluating renewable energy technology : an alternative LACE study on solar photo-voltaic (PV)
Currently, renewable technologies are often evaluated using the Levelized cost of electricity (LCOE), which is a measure of building and operating a generating plant over an assumed αnancial life and duty cycle. Naturally, instead of only measuring the cost, a more holistic approach would be to …
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Achieving grid parity for large scale photovoltaic systems in New Jersey
… today's world, it is an inevitability that this renewable energy technology becomes more competitive from a price standpoint. Explored in this thesis are several engineering optimization and cost reduction methods that will enable large scale PV system costs to achieve grid parity in the next few …
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Nanorod solar cell
… has heightened the need for an eco-friendly and renewable energy technology. Solar cells, with their ability to convert the free and gigantic energy supply of the sun into electricity, are one such attractive choice. In this thesis, a study of the use of new technologies for enhanced solar cell …
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Improving the concentrated solar power plant through connecting the modular parabolic solar trough
… solar power (CSP) stands as a promising renewable energy technology with the ability to contribute towards global reduction of carbon emissions. A major obstacle to increased adoption of CSP plants has to do with their high initial investment cost; consequently, there is a powerful desire …
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RENEWABLE ENERGY IN MONTANA: SYSTEM APPLICATIONS AND TECHNLOGY
Energy is a critical topic of debate today, and much interest has turned to renewable energy forms. The negative implications of fossil fuel use are outweighing their benefits, as the twenty-first century has seen environmental, economic, and social consequences unfold. Montana is in a unique …
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RENEWABLE ENERGY IN MONTANA: SYSTEM APPLICATIONS AND TECHNLOGY
Energy is a critical topic of debate today, and much interest has turned to renewable energy forms. The negative implications of fossil fuel use are outweighing their benefits, as the twenty-first century has seen environmental, economic, and social consequences unfold. Montana is in a unique …
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Dislocation density reduction in multicrystalline silicon through cyclic annealing
… silicon solar cells are an important renewable energy technology that have the potential to provide the world with much of its energy. While they are relatively inexpensive, their efficiency is limited by material defects, and in particular by dislocations. Reducing dislocation …
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Electrical Power Generation in Microbial Fuel Cells Using Carbon Nanostructure Enhanced Anodes
… have been suggested as a means to harness energy that is otherwise unutilized during the wastewater treatment process. MiFCs have the unique ability to treat influent waste streams while simultaneously generating power which can offset energy associated with the biological treatment of …
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The impacts of cleaner energy policies on coal-dependent Appalachia and our response options
… Appalachian residents, and surveying the energy and employment landscapes both regionally and nationally, this thesis aims to shed light on the effect cleaner energy policies have on employment in the Appalachian region. Most importantly, it aims to explain how we as a nation can help …
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Control of power converter for grid integration of renewable energy conversion and STATCOM systems
Investment in renewable energy is rapidly increasing worldwide. This is in response to a number of global challenges and concerns, including climate change, increasing energy demand, and energy security. The investment is widely spread over the leading renewable energy technology sectors: wind, …
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Efficient Utilization of Solar Energy in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells and in the Photocatalytic Reduction of Carbon Dioxide
… dissertation describes efforts to utilize solar energy to improve renewable energy technology in two ways: First, through the improvement of dye sensitized solar cells by theimprovement of D-π-A dye subunits, the development of practical sensitizers, and progress towards stable, tunable redox …
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Co-optimizing silicon solar cell processing for efficiency and throughput
Crystalline silicon solar cells are a proven renewable energy technology, but they have yet to reach low costs commensurate with subsidy-free, grid-scale adoption. To achieve the widespread adoption of photovoltaics, the cost per unit of electricity must be reduced by increasing solar cell …
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Phycoremediation using botryococcus sp. as nutrients removal in organic wastewaters coupled with hydrocarbon production
… fuels. In response to the problems, new technology via phycoremediation to reduce the wastewater contamination coupled with production of sustainable hydrocarbon has received much interest worldwide. Thus, the aim of the study is to produce the hydrocarbon from microalgae, Botryococcus …
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The application and assessment of active network management techniques for distribution network power flows
The UK Government regards renewable energy technology deployment to be crucial in successfully meeting reduced greenhouse gas emission targets. As such, incentives promoting the connection of clean energy sources to the UK's electricity infrastructure are influencing a significant increase of …
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Profitable thermal renovation of hotels to combat climate change and depletion of fossil fuels: the case of Cyprus
Hotel buildings were identified as significant energy consumers. Within the theoretical framework of the thesis it was argued that climate change and increasing energy prices due to depletion of fossil fuels would cause pressure on hotel operations in Cyprus by increasing their cooling loads and …
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