Solidaric solarities: Governance principles for transforming solar power relations DOI
Siddharth Sareen, Alevgül H. Şorman, Ryan Stock

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Progress in Environmental Geography, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 2(3), P. 143 - 165

Published: July 31, 2023

Solar energy has become the world's cheapest and fastest scaling electricity source. Multiple societal sectors are electrifying, scale pace of change give some hope near-future rapid climate mitigation through solar rollouts despite bleak record to date. Critiques utility-scale development foreground injustices like displacing marginalised groups perpetuating resource inequity. Governance scholars argue for stringent regulations towards just transitions, community research shows that smaller-scale solutions hold promise in being more equitable. Our contribution argues possibility redistributive emancipatory development, drawing from scholarship on governance (institutional configurations, policy mixes cross-sectoral regulation) (comparative geographies with attention context-specificity trans-local connection). We conceptualise operationalise term ‘solidaric solarities’ as modalities harnessing advance empowerment, interconnectedness wealth victims injustices. This focuses political economy issues, where can solidarity historically groups, create affordable distributed future renewable systems. The analysis underpinning this normative orientation leverages secondary scholarly expertise rollouts. offer pragmatic principles informed by values engender solidarity, illuminating potential pathways enable solidaric transitions.

Language: Английский

Sustainability challenges throughout the electric vehicle battery value chain DOI Creative Commons

Anahita Jannesar Niri,

Gregory Poelzer, Steven E. Zhang

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Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 191, P. 114176 - 114176

Published: Dec. 16, 2023

The global commitment to decarbonizing the transport sector has resulted in an unabated growth markets for electric vehicles and their batteries. Consequently, demand battery raw materials is continuously growing. As illustration, meet net-zero emissions targets, vehicle market lithium, cobalt, nickel, graphite will increase 26-times, 6-times, 12-times, 9-times respectively between 2021 2050. There are diverse challenges meeting this demand, requiring world embrace technological knowledge advancements new investments without provoking conflicts competing goals. uncertainties a sustainable supply of minerals, environmental, social governance complexities, geopolitical tensions throughout whole value chain have shaped regional concerns over success decarbonization. Here, focusing on entire batteries, approaches adopted by regulatory agencies, governments, mining companies, manufacturers, all other stakeholders evaluated. Bringing together these aspects, literature review broadens scope providing multifaceted solutions necessary optimize goal decarbonization while upholding sustainability criteria. Consolidating previously fragmented information, solid foundation more in-depth research existing difficulties encountered governmental industrial actors created. outcomes study may serve as baseline develop framework climate smart resource efficient batteries considering unique impacts individual players.

Language: Английский

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Blockchain technology for distributed generation: A review of current development, challenges and future prospect DOI
Kah Yung Yap, Hon Huin Chin, Jiří Jaromír Klemeš

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Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 175, P. 113170 - 113170

Published: Jan. 13, 2023

Language: Английский

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Let's hear it from the cities: On the role of renewable energy in reaching climate neutrality in urban Europe DOI Creative Commons
Giulia Ulpiani,

Nadja Vetters,

D. Shtjefni

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Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 183, P. 113444 - 113444

Published: June 9, 2023

Renewable energy sources have emerged globally as a key lever to ensure security and promote climate mitigation. Cities need exploit this transition, but how they are building their strategies actions is undetermined. A new dataset, collected through the European 100 Climate-Neutral Smart Mission, offers unique insights on 362 cities which expressed ambition reach neutrality by 2030. Insights include level of preparedness, ambition, capacity risks envisaged in pursuit zero-emission greener futures. This study focuses particular role renewable across high greenhouse gas emitting sectors (e.g. buildings, mobility, waste industry). It analyses i) status quo for generation, consumption, policymaking, ii) measures enhance upscale deployment near future, iii) policies relevant instruments will evolve curb emissions accelerate transition. The that emerge from analysis discussed relation existing evidence, inform future research strands forms assistance cities. Overall, deliver large projects, efforts be intensified, barriers lifted multi-governance approaches must operationalised.

Language: Английский

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Adaptation of solar energy in the Global South: Prospects, challenges and opportunities DOI Creative Commons
Kingsley Ukoba, Kelvin O. Yoro, Orevaoghene Eterigho-Ikelegbe

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Heliyon, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 10(7), P. e28009 - e28009

Published: March 16, 2024

The Global South comprising economically disadvantaged regions of the world face various challenges such as limited access to electricity, clean water, industrialization, and food security. Solar energy, a sustainable abundant resource, holds great potential address these challenges. Despite its immense potential, encounters hurdles related technology adoption, infrastructure, financial constraints. This review examines history, classifications, global statistics, merits, demerits solar in South. Furthermore, it delves into applications including extreme environments, residential electricity generation, transportation, industrial usage this region. paper concludes by providing new insighths highlighting significant role energy can play shaping future if are adequately addressed, opportunities embraced.

Language: Английский

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Integrating electric vehicles into hybrid microgrids: A stochastic approach to future-ready renewable energy solutions and management DOI
Aykut Fatih Güven

Energy, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 303, P. 131968 - 131968

Published: June 7, 2024

Language: Английский

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Transforming public transport depots into profitable energy hubs DOI
Xiaohan Liu, Patrick Plötz, Sonia Yeh

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Nature Energy, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 9(10), P. 1206 - 1219

Published: Aug. 1, 2024

Language: Английский

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Capacity optimization of hybrid energy storage system for microgrid based on electric vehicles’ orderly charging/discharging strategy DOI
Ao Yang, Honglei Wang, Bin Li

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Journal of Cleaner Production, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 411, P. 137346 - 137346

Published: April 29, 2023

Language: Английский

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A Review of the Latest Trends in Technical and Economic Aspects of EV Charging Management DOI Creative Commons
Pegah Alaee, Július Bemš, Amjad Anvari‐Moghaddam

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Energies, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 16(9), P. 3669 - 3669

Published: April 24, 2023

The transition from internal combustion engines to electric vehicles (EVs) has received significant attention and investment due its potential in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. integration of EVs into transport systems presents both benefits challenges energy management. scheduling EV charging can alleviate congestion the system reduce waiting times for owners. use renewable sources (RESs) supporting grid help mitigate uncertainty these resources. Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology be used as an alternative approach event sudden high consumption grid. Additionally, cost minimization through large-scale coordinated planning is crucial future e-mobility systems. This review paper focuses on latest trends considering various approaches features scheduling, well influence different stakeholders, categorized single- multiple-charging stations (CS) aggregator levels. By implementing methods are presented better manage needs satisfaction owners profit CS market In this regard, strategies V2G, evaluation parameters, management, CSs electrical lines, route mapping, technical economic aspects hierarchy, including consumers, aggregators, reviewed discussed.

Language: Английский

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Sustainable development of energy, water and environment systems in the critical decade for climate action DOI
Şiir Kılkış, Goran Krajačić, Neven Duić

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Energy Conversion and Management, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 296, P. 117644 - 117644

Published: Sept. 22, 2023

Language: Английский

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A critical review of the effect of light duty electric vehicle charging on the power grid DOI Creative Commons
Moshammed Nishat Tasnim, Shahrin Akter, Mohammad Shahjalal

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Energy Reports, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 10, P. 4126 - 4147

Published: Nov. 1, 2023

Electric vehicles (EVs) have emerged as one of the alternative solutions for reducing carbon emissions in road transportation sector. In near future, more and EVs will be integrated into electric grid. These increasing EVs, mainly light-duty are appearing an extensive power-consuming load within power grid system. Unplanned introduction abrupt adoption charging stations can hinder smooth operation distribution system bring serious technical challenges such quality, voltage fluctuations, harmonic injection, battery degradation, instability. Light-duty EV integration its effects on grids, including access capabilities planning, main focus this review. Therefore, paper analyzes summarizes potential issues terms characteristics economy, environment order to explore impact network. Moreover, coordination speed, several schemes infrastructure configurations evaluated. Various implementation strategies concepts, smart approach optimal location selection, also presented. Furthermore, outlines directions future research studies well additional suggestions improving achieving win-win outcomes both operators customers.

Language: Английский

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