Job Jolt: The Economic Impacts of Repowering the Midwest: [PDF]
Implementing the Repowering the Midwest Clean Energy Development Plan would create more than 200,000 new jobs across the 10-state Midwest region by 2020, up to $5.5 billion in additional worker income, and up to $20 billion in increased economic activity.
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Microgrid can realize energy saving and emission reduction and multi‐energy complementation, but the fluctuation of renewable energy output and the error of day‐ahead scheduling will threaten the stability of microgrid operation.
Ruimiao Wang +5 more
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Economic Evaluation of Wind Power Development in Iran Considering the Effect of Energy Price Liberalization Policy [PDF]
development of wind power usage in Iran. The economics of energy production from wind and gas power plants are compared. The Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE) is used as an index to compare the plants’ cost of electricity production.
sayed AliAkbar Motahary +3 more
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Toward a sustainable global energy supply infrastructure : net energy balance and density considerations [PDF]
This paper complements previous work on the economics of different energy resources by examining the growth potential of alternative electricity supply infrastructures as constrained by innate physical limits.
Kessides, Ioannis N., Wade, David C.
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Design and economic analysis of solar home system for urban areas of Mogadishu using homer software [PDF]
In this century of enhanced progress by various spaces, some African states are still challenging lack of energy due to scarcity in some places. The most used energy (generation of electricity) is hydropower because heat and fuel are still on some scale.
Samatar, Abdullahi Mohamed
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Renewable energy integration into the Australian National Electricity Market: Characterising the energy value of wind and solar generation [PDF]
This paper examines how key characteristics of the underlying wind and solar resources may impact on their energy value within the Australian National Electricity Market(NEM).
Boerema, Nicholas +2 more
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Zambia's infrastructure : a continental perspective [PDF]
Infrastructure improvements contributed 0.6 percentage points to Zambia's annual per capital GDP growth over the past decade, mostly because of exponential growth in information and communication services. The power sector, by contrast, pulled the growth
Dominguez, Carolina, Foster, Vivien
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Comprehensive comparison between photothermal power generation and photovoltaic power generation
Photovoltaic power generation and photothermal power generation are two forms of solar power generation. The development cost of photovoltaic is relatively lower than photothermal, but a certain proportion of energy storage and distributed synchronous ...
LI Fuchun +5 more
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Optimizing plug-in electric vehicle charging in interaction with a small office building [PDF]
This paper considers the integration of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) in micro-grids. Extending a theoretical framework for mobile storage connection, the economic analysis here turns to the interactions of commuters and their driving behavior with ...
Beer, Sebastian +4 more
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China’s Electricity Market Reform and Power Plants Efficiency [PDF]
In the past three decades, Chinese electricity industry has experienced a series of regulatory reforms serving different purposes at different stages. In 2002, the former vertically integrated electricity utility - the State Power Corporation (SPC) – was
Ma, Chunbo +3 more
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