A multiple perspectives view of the market case for green energy

Renewable Energy in the Context of Sustainable Development

“…However, nonrenewable power generation technologies remain more economically viable than RE in many contexts (van Alphen et al, 2007;Cowan et al, 2009). This is particularly the case for most large grid-connected applications, even with increases in oil price forecasts (ESMAP, 2007) and when likely RE technology cost reductions over the next 20 years are considered (Deichmann et al, 2011).…”

“…Path dependencies may lock in societies into energy or infrastructure options that may be inferior in terms of cost efficiency or accumulated social costs in the long term (Unruh, 2000). In many cases, internalization of environmental externalities has considerable effects for the levelized costs of RE technologies (Cowan et al, 2009;Harmon and Cowan, 2009;Fahlen and Ahlgren, 2010) and subsequently their non-inclusion presents a barrier for RE deployment. Internalization of damage costs resulting from combustion of fossil fuels into the price of the resulting output of electricity could, for example, lead to a number of renewable technologies being financially competitive with generation from coal plants (Owen, 2006;see Section 10.6).…”

Building scenarios with Fuzzy Cognitive Maps: An exploratory study of solar energy

“…She therefore represented a group of people who would usually not be included in a scenario study, even though their views could be more indicative of public opinion than the views of more informed and experienced respondent. The second stakeholder group, manufacturers, were represented by a graduate student of engineering management who is knowledgeable in the field due to his previous employment at the Department of Energy through several academic studies [46,47]. He was furthermore knowledgeable in FCM modeling and involved in the research.…”

Environmentally Sustainable Supply Chain Practices, Organisation Culture on Firm Performance. A Mediation Approach

“…On performance measures, the researcher adopted the questionnaire from Zailani, Jeyaraman, Vengadasan, and Premkumar (2012). who adopted it from Harmon and Cowan (2009) questionnaire model for measuring the performance of manufacturing firms in relation to sustainable supply chain practices. The researcher did not alter the questionnaire.…”