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•Malaysia launched the feed-in tariff (FiT) scheme in December 2011.•The one year progress is evaluated in terms of installation and economical aspects.•The uptake for renewable energy installations has been extremely high.•Investment related to renewable sectors has increased significantly.•More ‘green’ jobs have been created in the country.
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•We develop a diffusion model incorporating the competition among renewables.•A price function and a diffusion model are used in 2-step forecasting procedure.•The annual demand through 2035 for five renewables in South Korea is forecasted.•Wind power will maintain the largest market share in the electric power sector.•The supply of geothermal energ...
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•We analyze schemes used to induce owners of distributed assets to make them available for electricity generation.•We show that power purchase agreements used in solar PV “misallocate” electricity price risk to owners/consumers.•We propose new contracts forms that shift price risk from consumers to parties that are better able to manage it.•Full-fl...
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•We investigate the impact of high renewables on customer economics of solar.•We model three types of residential retail electricity rates.•Based on the rates, we calculate the bill savings from photovoltaic (PV) generation.•High renewables penetration can lead to lower bill savings with time-varying rates.•There is substantial uncertainty in the f...
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•Total energy demands (operational & embodied) of 5 Austin settings were studied here.•Suburban settings consume much more energy than densely developed neighborhoods.•Transportation sources make up 44 to 47% of the total energy demands tallied.•Operational energy use comprised 83–92% of total energy use in these neighborhoods.•Higher population de...
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•We adopt a time-varying model to test the weak-form efficiency of crude oil markets.•Weekly oil returns series have been extremely efficient during the past decade.•Daily oil returns series have presented intermittent and inconsistent efficiency.•Oil markets react asymmetrically to different information shocks.•Policy recommendations are proposed ...
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•A long-term relationship of electricity demand in nonmetallic minerals industry is established.•Determinants of the sectoral electricity consumption are specified.•The sectoral electricity demand and saving potential are analyzed using scenarios analysis.•Electricity saving potential will be 48.34–136.24billionkWh under the high-growth scenario.
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•Firms are more positively valued with lower carbon-intensities of production.•Firms are more negatively valued with smaller holdings of allowances.•The stock market does not value the firms׳ allowance trade activity.•The stock market does not seem to value the pass-through of carbon costs in product prices.
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•The total emergy input and energy output of the study system increased from 1991 to 2008.•The change of each emergy index was more evident after the GFGP launched in 2001.•The increase in input of non-renewable purchased resources will gradually reduce the function of the GFGP in West China.•Agricultural development in West China should be based o...
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•UK is world leader in offshore wind deployment.•Article explains boom in deployment by looking at the politics of renewable energy policy.•Offshore wind is supported by a variety of actors with aligned political and economic interests.•Analysis highlights the importance of a system builder.
