Renewable energy costs, potentials, barriers: Conceptual issues

Verbruggen, Aviel; Fischedick, Manfred; Moomaw, William R.; Weir, Tony; Nadaï, Alain; Nilsson, Lars J; Nyboer, John; Sathaye, Jayant

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2009.10.036

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“…One of the key hindrances for 'Sustainable' manager is lack of resources, which entails information technology tools, governmental regulations and standards that impeded the implementations of environmental business practices. This finding is in-line with previous researchers, including Verbruggen et al (2009). Accordingly, this group opposes the view that the highest objective in corporate sustainability is regulatory compliance because this does not assist companies through facilitating their emissions trading or financing projects, as specified in statements 33 and 29.…”

Section: ) Factor 1: Sustainable Managerssupporting

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Businesses Sustainable Strategies in Practice: The Case of Emerging Market-Kuwait

Banna¹,

Mutairi²,

Hasan³

2015

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Abstract-The burgeoning environmental sustainability stance is an escalating challenge faced by planners, leaders and decisions makers around the globe. The importance of this study provides invaluable information and insights for stakeholders in Kuwait as an example of developing countries. The key objective of this research is to explore the current environmental business sustainability and managerial practices and behavior in Kuwait. This study investigates the extent that managers in Kuwait are continuously involving in developing a vision into practices in terms of sustainability and competitive edge dimensions. This study applies Q methodology to offer a complementary and alternative approach for evaluating the views on corporate environmental issues. The Q study began with the concourse stage where participants were instructed to freely express their thoughts towards environmental issues when making strategic decisions. Following a refinement and clarification of the collected statements, a total of 40 statements were used for the Q sort that was conducted early in 2011. There were 35 participants who successfully sorted 40 statements. The results revealed a three-factor solution and were labeled as 'Sustainable', 'Conservative' and 'Practical' managers.

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Section: ) Factor 1: Sustainable Managerssupporting

confidence: 89%

Businesses Sustainable Strategies in Practice: The Case of Emerging Market-Kuwait

Banna¹,

Mutairi²,

Hasan³

2015

JOEBM

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“…The contribution of renewable energy to energy supply varies by country and region due to the diversified geographic distribution of production, use, and export. From developed countries, widespread acceptance and use of renewable energy are now moving toward developing nations, especially in Asia, including China, India, and so on [16]. China is now one of the largest producers and exporters of solar thermal panels for hot-water production, the largest investor in thermal heating installations, and the third largest producer of bioethanol [17].…”

Section: Renewable Energy For Sustainable Developmentmentioning

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Evaluating Renewable Energy Sustainability by Composite Index

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Renewable energy is a global interest area in achieving sustainable development. Renewable energy sustainability has been assessed using the most commonly used dimensions of this concept: economic, environmental, social, and institutional dimensions. In this paper, we designed a composite index named the Renewable Energy Sustainability Index. The proposed index may represent a national monitoring mechanism that points out the strengths and weaknesses of a state in terms of renewable energy. The data were normalized by calculating the z-score. We tested the proposed index on a selection of 15 European countries ranked by final energy consumption and with different levels of development. The Kayser-Mayer-Olkin values were above the 0.700 limit, which indicates the robustness of each dimension. The proposed index reveals the development stages of renewable energy sustainability and can provide solutions to increase the sustainability of a country by improving positive impact indicators and mitigating negative impact indicators.

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“…Smeets et al, 2007, Hoogwijk, 2004, Verbruggen et al, 2010. However, there seem to be a few ''perspectives'' which can be relevant to have in mind considering different potentials, e.g.…”

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Conditions for resource-efficient production of biofuels for transport in Sweden

Ersson¹

2014

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Transportation has continued to increase worldwide and fossil-fuel dependency is strong which leads to a number of problems, e.g. increased emissions of green-house gases (GHG) and risks related to energy security. Biofuels have until now been one of the few renewable alternatives which have been able to replace fossil fuels on a large scale. The biofuel share in relation to the total use of fuel in the transportation sector is still small, but in many places in the world political targets are set to increase the share of renewable fuels, of which biofuels are supposed to be an important part. Within the European Union targets for renewable energy have been set, including within the transportation sector, where 10% shall come from renewable sources by 2020 according to the EU Renewable Energy Directive (EU RES). Biofuels also need to fulfill the sustainability criteria in the EU RES, to be regarded as renewable. Depending on how biofuels are produced their resource efficiency varies, and the differences in environmental and economic performance can for instance be significant.The aim of this thesis is to describe and analyze conditions for a development towards increased and more resource-efficient production of biofuels in Sweden. The conditions have been studied from a regional resource perspective and from a biofuel producer perspective since it has been assumed that the producers are in possession of important knowledge, and potentially will play an important role in future biofuel development. The concept of resource efficiency used in this thesis includes an environmental and economic perspective as well as an overall societal dimension to some extent. The region of Östergötland in Sweden was used for the assessment of the resourcefocused biofuel potential for the year 2030, where two scenarios based on assessments regarding socio-technical development in relation to regional resources were used. The scenarios were based on semi-structured interviews with biofuel actors, literature studies and information from experts in the field. In the EXPAN (Expansion) scenario a continued development in line with the current one was assumed, but also an increased availability of feedstock primarily within the agricultural and waste sectors (also including byproducts from industry) for biofuel production. In the INNTEK (Innovation and Technology development) scenario greater technological progress was assumed to also enable the use of some unconventional feedstock besides increased available arable land and improved collection/availability of certain feedstock. Biomass feedstock from four categories was included in the potential: waste, agriculture, forestry and aquatic environments. One important feedstock which was not included in this study, but which is often included in studies of potential, is lignocellulosic material from the forest. This choice was also supported by the regional actors who judged it as less probable that there will be any large-scale use of such feedstock for biofuels in this region wit...

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Renewable energy costs, potentials, barriers: Conceptual issues

Cited by 239 publications

References 24 publications

Businesses Sustainable Strategies in Practice: The Case of Emerging Market-Kuwait

Businesses Sustainable Strategies in Practice: The Case of Emerging Market-Kuwait

Evaluating Renewable Energy Sustainability by Composite Index

Conditions for resource-efficient production of biofuels for transport in Sweden

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