IEA World Energy Outlook 2011—A comment

Khatib, Hisham

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2012.06.007

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“…In the same year, domestic gas consumption reached 163.1 bcm, with an annual growth rate of 15.4 percent [3], which has made China the fourth largest global natural gas consumer after the USA, Russia, and Iran [4]. According to the International Energy Agency, Chinese natural gas consumption will reach 240 bcm in 2015, and later 600 bcm in 2035, equivalent to that of all Europe [5].…”

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Sustainability Assessment of the Natural Gas Industry in China Using Principal Component Analysis

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Under pressure toward carbon emission reduction and air protection, China has accelerated energy restructuring by greatly improving the supply and consumption of natural gas in recent years. However, several issues with the sustainable development of the natural gas industry in China still need in-depth discussion. Therefore, based on the fundamental ideas of sustainable development, industrial development theories and features of the natural gas industry, a sustainable development theory is proposed in this thesis. The theory consists of five parts: resource, market, enterprise, technology and policy. The five parts, which unite for mutual connection and promotion, push the gas industry's development forward together. Furthermore, based on the theoretical structure, the Natural Gas Industry Sustainability Index in China is established and evaluated via the Principal Component Analysis (PCA) method. Finally, a conclusion is reached: that the sustainability of the natural gas industry in China kept rising from 2008 to 2013, mainly benefiting from increasing supply and demand, the enhancement of enterprise profits, technological innovation, policy support and the optimization and reformation of the gas market.

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Sustainability Assessment of the Natural Gas Industry in China Using Principal Component Analysis

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“…International reports have started only recently to recognize a significant role to unconventional gas in future scenarios. In WEO-2011 [20], for the first time, the share of unconventional gas in the future energy mix is projected to significantly rise, accounting of 50% of the increase in gas production over the period 2011 to 2035. Instead, only two years before, WEO-2010 [21] expected a small percentage of increase in the medium-terms, although unconventional gas had already attracted interest in previous years.…”

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Recent Trends in the World Gas Market: Economical, Geopolitical and Environmental Aspects

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Natural gas is considered by energy experts to be the most promising fossil fuel for the 21st century, and as a matter of fact, the International Energy Agency (IEA) introduced for the first time in the 2011 World Energy Outlook a high gas use scenario called the "Golden Age of Gas". Natural gas is an easy to burn and clean fuel; its proven reserves are large and furthermore, enormous possibilities are offered by unconventional resources. There are anyway some geopolitical concerns in the global gas market, since the most important reserves are concentrated in a limited number of countries; the environmental impacts in the extraction of shale gas should also be taken into account. The paper presents an updated and thorough overview of recent advances and trends in the global gas market, highlighting the role of Europe in the World scenario. Statistical data from the main international reports are presented; economical, geopolitical and especially environmental aspects are presented and discussed.

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“…In this framework, buildings account for about 40% of global energy uses in Europe and 32% in the World [2], and thus they are responsible for similar shares of associated polluting emissions. Therefore, it is clear that the optimization of building energy design is fundamental to face some crucial issues of present and future society, such as environmental pollution, climate change, energy poverty and economic crisis [3].…”

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Multi-Objective Optimization of Building Energy Design to Reconcile Collective and Private Perspectives: CO2-eq vs. Discounted Payback Time

Hamdy

Mauro

2017

Energies

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Abstract:Building energy design is a multi-objective optimization problem where collective and private perspectives conflict each other. For instance, whereas the collectivity pursues the minimization of environmental impact, the private pursues the maximization of financial viability. Solving such trade-off design problems usually involves a big computational cost for exploring a huge solution domain including a large number of design options. To reduce that computational cost, a bi-objective simulation-based optimization algorithm, developed in a previous study, is applied in the present investigation. The algorithm is implemented for minimizing the CO 2 -eq emissions and the discounted payback time (DPB) of a single-family house in cold climate, where 13,456 design solutions including building envelope and heating system options are explored and compared to a predefined reference case. The whole building life is considered by assuming a calculation period of 30 years. The results show that the type of heating system significantly affects energy performance; notably, the ground source heat pump leads to the highest reduction in CO 2 -eq emissions, around 1300 kgCO 2 -eq/m 2 , with 17 year DPB; the oil fire boiler can provide the lowest DPB, equal to 8.5 years, with 850 kgCO 2 -eq/m 2 reduction. In addition, it is shown that using too high levels of thermal insulation is not an effective solution as it causes unacceptable levels of summertime overheating. Finally a multi-objective decision making approach is proposed in order to enable the stakeholders to choice among the optimal solutions according to the weight given to each objective, and thus to each perspective.

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IEA World Energy Outlook 2011—A comment

Cited by 182 publications

References 1 publication

Sustainability Assessment of the Natural Gas Industry in China Using Principal Component Analysis

Sustainability Assessment of the Natural Gas Industry in China Using Principal Component Analysis

Recent Trends in the World Gas Market: Economical, Geopolitical and Environmental Aspects

Multi-Objective Optimization of Building Energy Design to Reconcile Collective and Private Perspectives: CO2-eq vs. Discounted Payback Time

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