Sustainable Energy Development Strategies: Energy Efficiency and Renewables
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "A: Sustainable Energy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 March 2019) | Viewed by 134075
Special Issue Editors
Interests: sustainable development; integrated analysis
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Interests: agricultural economics; energy economics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Sustainable energy development has a direct impact on climate change mitigation and is the top priority of energy policy. Sustainable energy development strategies typically involve three major technological changes: Energy savings on the demand side, energy efficiency improvements in the energy production and replacement of fossil fuels by renewables.
This Special Issue is dedicated to the analysis of sustainable energy development strategies and policies at various levels, the analysis of policies and measures aiming to promote energy efficiency and penetration of renewables at global, national, sectoral, regional, enterprise and households levels, the impacts of sustainable energy policies on climate change mitigation at global, national, sectoral, and regional levels.
Methodologically, analysis for sustainable energy development requires considering multiple factors affecting different aspects of energy supply and consumption. Therefore, frontier techniques for analysis of the underlying environmental production technologies, index decomposition models for isolation of the contributions of different factors in energy use or environmental pressures, and multi-criteria frameworks for policy design are topical, among others.
The Special Issue will include the following topics:
- Analysis of sustainable energy development policies and strategies;
- Development and application of indicator systems, tools and techniques for assessment of sustainable energy development;
- Assessment of climate change mitigation policies;
- Energy efficiency analysis and assessment of energy efficiency policies;
- Analysis of renewable energy development and the associated policies;
- The interlinkages among sustainable energy policies and climate change mitigation policies;
- The assessment of role of renewables in achieving climate change mitigation targets;
- The assessment of role of energy efficiency improvements in achieving climate change mitigation targets;
- The assessment of energy technologies in electricity, heat and transport sectors;
- The assessment of demand side management measures;
- The role of environmental and social innovations in achieving sustainable energy development goals;
- Data Envelopment Analysis;
- Index Decomposition Analysis;
- Multi-criteria Decision Making
Prof. Dr. Dalia Štreimikienė
Prof. Dr. Tomas Baležentis
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Sustainable Energy Development
- Policies and Strategies
- Energy Efficiency
- Renewables
- Climate change mitigation
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