Journal: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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Renew. sustain. energy rev.

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Elsevier

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1364-0321

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  • Rural electrification through village grids
    Item type: Journal Article
    Blum, Nicola U.; Wakeling, Ratri Sryantoro; Schmidt, Tobias (2013)
    Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
  • Reviewing two decades of energy system analysis with bibliometrics
    Item type: Review Article
    Dominković, Dominik F.; Weinand, Jann M.; Scheller, Fabian; et al. (2022)
    Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
    The field of Energy System Analysis (ESA) has experienced exponential growth in the number of publications in the last two decades. This paper presents a comprehensive bibliometric analysis on ESA by employing different statistical techniques to investigate the underlying science's structure, characteristics, and patterns. The focus of results is on quantitative indicators relating to the number and type of publication outputs, collaboration links between institutions, authors and countries, and dynamic trends within the field. The five and twelve most productive countries have 50% and 80% of ESA publications, respectively. The dominant institutions are even more concentrated within a small number of countries. A significant concentration of published papers within countries and institutions was also confirmed by analysing collaboration networks. These show dominant collaboration within the same university or at least the same country. There is also a strong link among the most successful journals, authors and institutions. Within the field, the Energy journal has had the most publications, its editor-in-chief is the author with both the highest overall number of publications and the most highly cited publications. In terms of the dynamics within the field in the past decade, recent years have seen a higher impact of topics related to flexibility and hybrid/integrated energy systems alongside a decline in individual technologies. This paper provides a holistic overview of two decades' research output and enables interested readers to obtain a comprehensive overview of the key trends in this active field.
  • Thermal manikins controlled by human thermoregulation models for energy efficiency and thermal comfort research - A review
    Item type: Review Article
    Psikuta, Agnes; Allegrini, Jonas M.; Koelblen, Barbara; et al. (2017)
    Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
  • The impact of local content requirements on the development of export competitiveness in solar and wind technologies
    Item type: Journal Article
    Scheifele, Fabian; Bräuning, M.; Probst, Benedict (2022)
    Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
    Governments across the globe are implementing targeted industrial policies to reap the socio-economic benefits of renewable power deployment for their local industries. Here, we analyse local content requirements, a specific type of industrial policy that incentivizes local manufacturing through requiring minimum shares of locally produced inputs in renewable energy projects. Local content requirements are one of the most prominent industrial policy tools, with more than 140 applications across different sectors since 2008, yet their impact on industrial development is not well established. We create a panel dataset from 1995 to 2017 of 124 countries, among which 17 introduced local content requirements in wind and solar PV, to analyze the policies’ impact on exports. We employ synthetic control methods to create country-specific counterfactuals. For most countries, local content requirements have not led to a significant increase in exports of solar and wind energy components. The exceptions are China and Spain, which built significant export capacities in wind energy. A central reason for the limited impact of local content requirements is likely that countries target wind and solar components that are too far away from their existing industrial structures. We show that countries that have succeeded in breaking into solar or wind exports have already exhibited export capabilities in related industries before the introduction of local content requirements, such as electronics for solar PV. Policymakers should carefully consider the potential of existing industrial structures before introducing local content requirements.
  • Don't just follow the sun
    Item type: Review Article
    Lang, Tillmann; Gloerfeld, Erik; Girod, Bastien V.S. (2015)
    Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
  • Measuring the heat transfer coefficient (HTC) in buildings: A stakeholder's survey
    Item type: Journal Article
    Deb, Chirag; Gelder, V.L.; Spiekman, Marleen; et al. (2021)
    Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
    The heat transfer coefficient (HTC) is a very important factor influencing the energy performance of a building. Recent studies have shown the importance of on-site measurements of the HTC in reducing the performance gap in buildings. However, its measurement setup and calculation procedures are known to be intense and complex. Due to this, many stakeholders in the building industry find it impractical and insufficient for their needs. This paper presents the results of an international survey that targets such stakeholders with the aim to get their perspectives on HTC measurements on-site. Several stakeholders from 14 countries in Europe participated in the survey. The survey is categorized into four parts: a) basic data about the participants, b) their interest in methods for measured energy performance, c) their views on the characteristics of such a methodology and d) their concerns and opportunities. The results reveal that the stakeholders are highly interested in measuring the HTC on-site. The results also provide interesting insights on the aspects relevant for them and their customers. In particular, we elaborate on their perspective on the time to conduct the measurement, the cost of the setup, the measurement duration and the acceptable error. The assimilated understanding from the survey will help the building and the construction industry to identify opportunities for a progressive assessment campaign involving on-site measurements. This study is part of the International Energy Agency's Energy in Buildings and Communities Programme (IEA EBC) Annex-71 project titled ‘Building energy performance assessment based on optimized in-situ measurements’.
  • Liquidity in green power markets – An international review
    Item type: Review Article
    Frei, Fanny; Loder, Allister; Bening, Catharina R. (2018)
    Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
  • Experimental data supported techno-economic assessment of the oxidative dehydrogenation of ethane through chemical looping with oxygen uncoupling
    Item type: Journal Article
    Luongo, Giancarlo; Donat, Felix; Krödel, Maximilian; et al. (2021)
    Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
    Ethylene is an essential building block in the petrochemical industry and it is almost exclusively produced via ethane steam cracking, a well-established albeit highly energy and carbon dioxide intensive process. The oxidative dehydrogenation of ethane is a promising alternative to steam cracking reactions due to its exothermic nature, which decreases the overall energy requirements and carbon footprint. The need of a capital intensive air separation unit for producing oxygen limits its potential for industrial application. The current study investigates an alternative route, i.e. the production of oxygen via chemical looping, where oxygen is released in-situ by suitable oxygen carriers. The chemical looping oxidative dehydrogenation, supported by original experimental data, and the steam cracking processes are simulated with ASPEN Plus®. A comprehensive analysis of the energy requirements and an economic assessment are carried out for both processes. Compared with state-of-the-art ethane steam cracking, the proposed process provides ~28% energy savings per tonnes of ethylene produced and ~21% reduction in the resulting ethylene price. Sensitivity analysis show that the economy of the chemical looping oxidative dehydrogenation process is strongly sensitive to the feedstock price.
  • Is it only CO2 that matters?
    Item type: Review Article
    Saner, Dominik; Juraske, Ronnie; Kübert, Markus; et al. (2010)
    Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
  • Economic evaluation of Miscanthus production – A review
    Item type: Journal Article
    Witzel, Carl-Philipp; Finger, Robert (2016)
    Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
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