Energy Policy and Climate Change: A Multidisciplinary Approach to a Global Problem

Дови, В.Г.; Battaglini, Antonella

doi:10.3390/en81212379

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“…The increasing energy demand on a global scale and, at the same time, the introduced restrictions on emissions harmful to the environment and the climate are prompting the search for non-conventional energy sources, including renewable energy sources [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8].…”

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Photovoltaic Farms—Economic Efficiency of Investments in North-East Poland

2021

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The abandonment of conventional sources in favor of energy from renewable energy sources (RES) has a global dimension, and the dynamic increase in the share of energy from photovoltaic systems in the energy mix of many countries results from the possibility of obtaining it both on a small scale (micro-installations) and as part of economic investments (photovoltaic power plants). The study aimed to assess the economic efficiency of 22 photovoltaic farms located in northeastern Poland. The research covered 5 solar power plants with a capacity of up to 799 kWp (I), 13 between 800 and 1100 kWp (II), and 4 installations of 1.98 MWp (III). The evaluation was based on net present value (NPV), internal rate of return (IRR), payback period (PP), profitability index (PI), accounting rate of return (ARR). Additionally, a sensitivity analysis was carried out regarding the value of economic indicators. The analysis shows that all studied PV farms are economically justified investments (NPV > 0) regardless of the adopted scenario. Solar power plants of the largest analyzed capacity (group III) resulted in being the most profitable ones, but no linear relationship between the level of productivity and profitability was established. Due to the large variation in terrain shape in northeastern Poland, landscape value and social benefits, which are difficult to assess, the support system for investments regarding the construction of photovoltaic power plants proved to be the most effective in group I.

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Photovoltaic Farms—Economic Efficiency of Investments in North-East Poland

2021

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“…The contemporary world is facing a great number of challenges caused by climate change as a result of human activity [1][2][3]. One of the key solutions for slowing down the pace of the ongoing changes in environmental order is altering the energy policy [4]. Notably, this is about changing the pattern of resource supplies, searching for alternative and renewable energy sources, and developing state-of-the-art technological solutions for enhancing energy efficiency [5].…”

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The Financing of Renewable Energy Sources and the Level of Sustainable Development of Poland’s Provinces in the Area of Environmental Order

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The overall purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of financing renewable energy sources on the assessment of sustainable development in Poland’s provinces. There are also two detailed objectives: (1) define how Polish policies are being passed on to local authorities; (2) realize a Poland’s provinces ranking, taking into account the indicators of sustainable development, thanks to the taxonomic measure of development in the area of environmental order. This study deals with the taxonomic assessment of local sustainable development in the local administration units of Poland. To this end, the methods of linear ordering were applied for the assessment of the level of objects differentiation with the use of a closed set of statistical features. The presented analysis proved that the taxonomic distances between synthetic measures for particular provinces are considerable. The highest values of the integrated measure in 2018 were obtained by the following provinces: Podlaskie, Subcarpathian and Lubusz. It is noteworthy to point to the big changes in the ranking between 2018 and 2016. The cluster analysis showed some progress in achieving the goals of sustainable development. The group of provinces with an average level of sustainable development in 2018 included six provinces compared to two provinces in 2016. Removing one indicator from the integrated measure (the financing of renewable energy sources (RES)) led to a moderate increase in the integrated measure across all the provinces. This implies that, on average, the financing of renewable energy sources exerts increasingly smaller impacts on the level of sustainable development in Poland.

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“…The first and second nodes [35,36] are editorial articles from a Special Issue and the third node [37] is a summary of a conference, hence no or few quotations, but many relationships all.…”

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“…The threat of climate change has led to a change in seeing electricity production with a more sustainable and ecological vision by reducing polluting emissions into the environment. Vincenzo Dovì and Antonella Battaglini (2015) directed a Special Issue of energy policy which includes prevention of climate change, disruption of food supply chains, the onset of global water stress, and the collapse of political institutions [36]. In continuity with the energy policy and energy efficiency in urban areas and sustainable development, the 12th Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environmental Systems (2017, Dubrovnik, Croatia), the 12th SDEWES Conference and the 13th Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environmental Systems (2018, Palermo, Italy), and the 13th SDEWES Conference were held, where the contributions of scientists to these issues with multidisciplinary involvement were presented.…”

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Energies and Its Worldwide Research

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Energy efficiency and management is certainly one of the key drivers of human progress. Thus, the trends in the energy research are a topic of interest for the scientific community. The aim of this study is to highlight global research trends in this field through the analysis of a scientific journal indexed exclusively in the energy and fuels category. For this purpose, a journal has been selected that is in the center of the category considering its impact factor, which is only indexed in this category and of open access, Energies of the publisher MDPI. Therefore, a bibliometric analysis of all the contents of the journal between 2008 and 2020, 13,740 documents published, has been carried out. Analyzing the articles that are linked to each other by their citations, 14 clusters or research topics have been detected: smart grids; climate change–electric energy community; energy storage; bioenergy sources; prediction algorithms applied to power; optimization of the grid link for renewable energy; wind power; sustainability of power systems; hydrocarbon improvements; conversion of thermal/electrical energy; electric motor advancements; marine renewable energy; hydropower and energy storage; and preventive techniques in power transformers. The main keywords found were electric vehicle, renewable energy, microgrid, smart grid, and energy efficiency. In short, energy research remains necessary to meet the future challenge of sustainable energy with high efficiency and the exploration of new renewable resources, all for increasingly sustainable cities.

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Energy Policy and Climate Change: A Multidisciplinary Approach to a Global Problem

Abstract: In the period between the end of the Second World War and the oil crises of 1973 and 1979, the most critical issues in the energy debate were the impending depletion of non-renewable resources and the level of pollution that the environment is able to sustain. [...]

Cited by 19 publications

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Photovoltaic Farms—Economic Efficiency of Investments in North-East Poland

Photovoltaic Farms—Economic Efficiency of Investments in North-East Poland

The Financing of Renewable Energy Sources and the Level of Sustainable Development of Poland’s Provinces in the Area of Environmental Order

Energies and Its Worldwide Research

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