Assessing energy sustainability of rural communities using Principal Component Analysis

Evaluating Renewable Energy Sustainability by Composite Index

“…However, the issue of index construction has been widely researched in different topics, such as sustainable economic welfare [20], responsible investment [21], sustainability measurement [22], quality of life [23], assessment of air quality [24], and energy sustainability of rural communities [25]. Also, renewable energy was a key sector for designing indexes identified in literature as FFSI [26], AESPI [27], RECAI [28], EPI [29], RERII [21], SSEI [30], and GSI [31].…”

Three blind men and an elephant: The case of energy indices to measure energy security and energy sustainability

“…In addition to the disaggregated indicators, there are a large number of energy security indices which are available in literature, such as diversity based index [40], Energy Security Index (ESI price and ESI volume ), IEA [41], 'willingness to pay function' for security of supply proposed by Bollen [42], OVI (Oil Vulnerability Index), Gupta [43], Vulnerability index, Gnansounou [44], Geopolitical energy security measure [45], Risky external supply index [27], Economic and Socio-political risk index under project REACCESS (Risk of Energy Availability: Common Corridors for Europe Supply Security) [46], Energy affinity index [47], Energy development index, IEA [48], Energy sustainability index, Doukas et al [49], AESPI (Aggregated Energy Security Performance Indicator) proposed by Martchamadol and Kumar [25], amongst many others.…”

Analyzing the effects of Energy Action Plans on electricity consumption in Covenant of Mayors signatory municipalities in Andalusia

“…Marinakis et al (2015b) analyzed the local communities' needs in order to identify the parameters that should be taken into consideration during the development of the SEAPs in rural communities from Austria, Croatia, Greece and Portugal. Also referring to rural communities, Doukas et al (2012) assessed communities' energy sustainability using the Principal Component Analysis on mountainous and agricultural communities and islands. Oliver-Solà et al (2013) focused on analyzing the energy consumption and emissions of the municipal service facilities in Barcelona in 2005, with the goal of compiling the actions that the municipalities should undertake in order to fulfill their SEAP pledges.…”

“…For example, Lybaek and Kjaer (2015) highlight the role of local authorities as facilitators to support biogas. Likewise, Doukas et al (2012) consider that renewable energies are the key to achieving the targets of CM signatory municipalities, especially for most rural communities which have large unexploited renewable energies potential. Nevertheless, as stated in Rivas et al (2015), only 15% of total energy reduction relies on renewable electricity production, when looking at data in terms of population, and even less when considering data by number of signatories.…”