Decarbonization of industry: Guidelines towards a harmonized energy efficiency policy program impact evaluation methodology

Andrei, Mariana; Thollander, Patrik; Pierre, Inge; Gindroz, Bernard; Rohdin, Patrik

doi:10.1016/j.egyr.2021.02.067

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“…As a result of the increasing influence of climate change, green development has become an important trend. As a concept of economic growth and social development aiming at efficiency and sustainability, green manufacturing is an integral part of green development [1]. Green manufacturing involves the entire process of production, such as renewable energy power generation, saving raw materials, reducing energy consumption, green product redesign, and reducing pollution emissions [2].…”

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Energy-Efficient Hybrid Flow-Shop Scheduling under Time-of-Use and Ladder Electricity Tariffs

Chen

Wang

et al. 2022

Applied Sciences

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With the increasing influence of climate change, green development has become an important trend. Since manufacturing represents approximately one-half of total energy consumption, reducing the amount of energy consumed within this industry is imperative. This study provides a hybrid flow shop scheduling issue under a time-of-use and ladder electricity price system to reduce total energy consumption without compromising maximum completion time. An improved non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm II with some optimization strategies is proposed to solve the problem. First, an enhanced constructive heuristic algorithm is used to improve the quantity of initial solution in the initialization. Besides, an adaptive genetic operation is introduced, aiming to avoid the emergence of locally optimal solutions. In addition, the right-shift approach is developed to reduce the total energy consumption without affecting completion time. By maintaining the production efficiency and reducing the energy consumption cost by 4.33%. A trade-off proposal is made between productivity and sustainability in view of the calculation results.

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confidence: 99%

Energy-Efficient Hybrid Flow-Shop Scheduling under Time-of-Use and Ladder Electricity Tariffs

Chen

Wang

et al. 2022

Applied Sciences

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“…In the recent years, there has been an urge to accelerate the decarbonization of the EU energy system, which aims at reaching carbon neutrality by 2050 [1][2][3].…”

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Combined Effect of Temperature and Humidity on Distorted Currents Measured by Rogowski Coils

Costa

Mingotti

Peretto

et al. 2022

2022 20th International Conference on Harmonics &Amp; Quality of Power (ICHQP)

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The necessity of accelerating towards carbon neutrality has been further pushed in recent times. Therefore, with the aim of developing smart grids, new Intelligent Electronic Devices (IEDs) are being widely installed. In this regard, Low Power Current Transformers (LPCTs) are replacing traditional inductive current transformers (CTs). Among these, Rogowski coils feature high linearity, reduced dimensions, and wide bandwidth in comparison to CTs. Hence, this work presents a study on a particular type of LPCT, the Rogowski coil, which is extensively used nowadays. In detail, temperature and humidity are simultaneously applied to three commercial Rogowski coils when measuring off-nominal, hence distorted, currents. The LPCTs performances are evaluated in terms of power quality indexes, Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) and single harmonic evaluation. From the results, THD is not significantly affected by the combined temperature/humidity presence. However, a deep analysis on the single harmonic demonstrated how they are strongly correlated to such influence quantities. It is interesting to highlight that each of the three devices under test present different behaviors. It is then crucial to in deep the investigation on the influence quantities affecting LPCTs. Furthermore, International Standards should include new details and test procedures to assess the effect on the LPCTs accuracy due to such quantities.

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“…Out of the available policy measures, the improvement of energy efficiency (EE) can play a key role in this transition, leading to the decrease of energy demand and emissions, as well as bringing about economic and social benefits [3] [4]. For this reason, EE has been recognised as the "first fuel" [5], indicating its essential role and the large-scale effects that it could result in.…”

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Leveraging Energy Efficiency Investments: An Innovative Web-based Benchmarking Tool

Mexis¹,

Papapostolou²,

Karakosta³

et al. 2021

Adv. sci. technol. eng. syst. j.

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Energy Efficiency (EE) plays a key role in decreasing energy consumption at a European level, while it is considered as one of the most cost-efficient means to achieve carbon reduction and reinforce energy sufficiency and security. EE financing is imperative to implement measures that will lead to achieving the desired carbon neutrality and, thus, avert climate change. The majority of EE investments ideas are abandoned during the first stages of investment generation as there is not enough interest by the involved actors to support the maturing of the idea. The present paper aims to boost EE investments by developing a webbased Tool that evaluates project ideas, connecting them with real financing proposals. All the above are being realised through standardised procedures, establishing a concrete typology of five ( 5) EE sectors, a well-structured risk assessment methodology of five ( 5) risk categories and (9) risk factors, and a benchmarking procedure that takes into account four (4) broadly used economic criteria and eleven (11) verified sustainability indicators. All the parameters are calculated using the candidate project data and EU official statistics, formulated into four (4) main criteria that are fed into a MultiCriteria Decision Analysis that performs the project's benchmarking. The presented methodology is being practically tested through the development of three (3) innovative Tools (Assess, Agree, Assign) and a stakeholder consultation process with around 200 participants. The Tools filter and benchmark candidate project ideas, based on the standardised benchmarking and the EU Taxonomy sustainability principles, while connecting the most promising project ideas with state-of-the-art financing methods, such as the Green Loans, the Green Bonds and the Energy Efficiency Auctions. By this token, the developed Tools provenly provide added value to the respective stakeholders, offering standardisation in EE project benchmarking and financing, building trust between investors and projects developers.

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Decarbonization of industry: Guidelines towards a harmonized energy efficiency policy program impact evaluation methodology

Cited by 29 publications

References 21 publications

Energy-Efficient Hybrid Flow-Shop Scheduling under Time-of-Use and Ladder Electricity Tariffs

Energy-Efficient Hybrid Flow-Shop Scheduling under Time-of-Use and Ladder Electricity Tariffs

Combined Effect of Temperature and Humidity on Distorted Currents Measured by Rogowski Coils

Leveraging Energy Efficiency Investments: An Innovative Web-based Benchmarking Tool

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