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Smart Energy Policies in a Post-COVID-19 World

A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "C: Energy Economics and Policy".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (4 February 2022) | Viewed by 15135

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Dr. Liliana Proskuryakova

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Research Laboratory for Science and Technology Studies, Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge, National Research University Higher School of Economics, 101000 Moscow, Russia
Interests: energy technology foresight; future of energy; energy policy; energy technology cooperation; green growth; grand energy challenges

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The COVID-19 pandemic caused a large-scale economic downturn with profound implications for the energy industry. A drop in energy consumption followed by a slow or more dynamic recovery in different countries challenged the resilience and sustainability of energy systems. These shocks revealed the urgence of energy policy interventions, cross-sectoral reforms, and new leadership for assuring the transition to a more secure and cleaner energy future.

Analytics and policy advice by international organizations - International Energy Agency, IRENA, World Energy Council - contribute to setting up the new post-pandemic energy agenda. Research contributions that started appearing in scientific literature focus on analyzing the implications of COVID-19 for the sustainable energy transitions policies: assessing the national stimulus plans and the impact of pandemic on energy consumption by sector or by fuel.

The Special Issue seeks contributions related to energy transition, energy security, far-sighted investment and policy decisions, government support and recovery plans adopted in the view of the crisis triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic. We also welcome articles related to the medium- and long-term global climate and sustainability challenges and goals, as well as plausible and alternative scenarios to reach those goals in the framework of the post-COVID recovery.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Future energy studies, including foresights and forecasts, that take into account the new energy development trajectories;
  • The impact of pandemic on the global and national energy transition;
  • Comprehensive long-term energy transformation strategies at national and corporate levels;
  • Energy policies and energy systems stress testing;
  • The prospects for attaining global and national energy, climate, and sustainability goals while facing new challenges;
  • Approaches to predicting and anticipating future unexpected events and factors with low probability (also referred to as wild cards, weak signals, and black swans).

Prof. Dr. Liliana Proskuryakova
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • Smart energy systems
  • Future energy systems
  • Future energy trends
  • Energy policy
  • Energy scenarios
  • Post-COVID recovery
  • Post-COVID agenda
  • COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19-related energy policy
  • Energy transition
  • COVID-19 implications

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Coping with Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Insights from Digital Business Services
by Veronika Belousova, Oxana Bondarenko, Nikolay Chichkanov, Denis Lebedev and Ian Miles
Energies 2022, 15(8), 2745; https://doi.org/10.3390/en15082745 - 8 Apr 2022
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Digital Business Services (DBS), industries that have grown rapidly in recent years, played important roles in facilitating the adoption of digital technologies, as well as having applications in innovative products, transforming business processes across the economy. If DBS firms are committed to reducing [...] Read more.
Digital Business Services (DBS), industries that have grown rapidly in recent years, played important roles in facilitating the adoption of digital technologies, as well as having applications in innovative products, transforming business processes across the economy. If DBS firms are committed to reducing negative environmental impacts, they should be able to make more positive contributions to their clients’ performance; for instance, promoting the digitalization of businesses process in ways that can reduce greenhouse gas emissions and inefficient energy usage. But what are DBS business practices, in terms of greenhouse gas emissions and related topics? This study examines the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) disclosures of leading companies providing consultancy, advertising/marketing, and information technology services. The plans, targets, and actions of DBS companies with above-average ESG scores, as indexed by the Refinitiv dataset, are examined. The results indicate that all of these firms express goals, and almost all of them have set clear targets, in terms of moving to net zero. A wide range of relevant activities is being implemented, including services that promote energy efficiency. The diversity of these actions suggests that these firms can learn from each other, and that companies with lower ESG ratings have models to emulate. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Energy Policies in a Post-COVID-19 World)
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Decarbonization Prospects in the Commonwealth of Independent States
by Liliana Proskuryakova and Georgy Ermolenko
Energies 2022, 15(6), 1987; https://doi.org/10.3390/en15061987 - 9 Mar 2022
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The paper discusses existing trends and prospects for decarbonization in the Commonwealth of Independent States (the CIS), an international organization that regroups Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. The CIS occupies a significant share of Eurasia, representing a [...] Read more.
The paper discusses existing trends and prospects for decarbonization in the Commonwealth of Independent States (the CIS), an international organization that regroups Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. The CIS occupies a significant share of Eurasia, representing a large share of global energy consumption and production with a corresponding carbon footprint. These countries and their decarbonization prospects are rarely discussed in the English-language scientific literature. This paper fills in this gap by offering a comprehensive analysis based on statistical data, policy documents, and scenario-based future projections. The results underline that revisiting Nationally Determined Contributions, increasing energy efficiency, and decoupling GDP growth from greenhouse gas emissions are essential to the implementation of the Paris Agreement. The future energy mix should include larger shares of renewable energy, hydrogen, fossil fuels (highly efficient with carbon capture), and nuclear energy to achieve energy security and decarbonize the economy of the region in the long term. Full article
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Assessment of the Impact of the Human Coronavirus (COVID-19) Lockdown on the Energy Sector: A Case Study of Sharjah, UAE
by Fatin Samara, Bassam A. Abu-Nabah, Waleed El-Damaty and Mayyada Al Bardan
Energies 2022, 15(4), 1496; https://doi.org/10.3390/en15041496 - 17 Feb 2022
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The recent coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has wreaked havoc on the global economy, causing major shifts in energy use and output patterns. For some countries, this has had a significant effect on energy demand and carbon emissions, at least in the short term. Since [...] Read more.
The recent coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has wreaked havoc on the global economy, causing major shifts in energy use and output patterns. For some countries, this has had a significant effect on energy demand and carbon emissions, at least in the short term. Since the United Arab Emirates is currently exerting many efforts towards sustainability, it is important to assess and understand the impacts of the pandemic and the lockdown measurements on the local energy sectors. Data for this analysis were gathered by the Sharjah Electricity Water & Gas Authority (SEWA) for Sharjah City which is the capital of the Emirate of Sharjah. The changes in electricity after the implementation of quarantine and lockdown-like measures were assessed, and the results indicate that the electric power demand in Sharjah City was reduced in the commercial, industrial, and agricultural sectors, whereas the residential and government sectors witnessed a higher power demand. The overall electricity consumption in the year 2020 was reduced by 1.04% in comparison with previous years including 2016 to 2019. The results of this study indicate that the changes in electricity consumption were minimal in Sharjah City as compared to other cities around the world. However, this paper highlights the importance of governmental response during and after a pandemic, and the possible impacts that lockdowns could potentially have in the energy industry worldwide. Full article
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Energy Transition as a Response to Energy Challenges in Post-Pandemic Reality
by Darya Gribkova and Yulia Milshina
Energies 2022, 15(3), 812; https://doi.org/10.3390/en15030812 - 23 Jan 2022
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The concept of energy transition has been adopted by national governments, international and regional organizations. The COVID-19 pandemic triggered increasing attention to climate policy, energy transition, and economic resilience. This paper looks at energy transition in selected countries with the use of case [...] Read more.
The concept of energy transition has been adopted by national governments, international and regional organizations. The COVID-19 pandemic triggered increasing attention to climate policy, energy transition, and economic resilience. This paper looks at energy transition in selected countries with the use of case studies—China, the European Union, India, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and the United States. The aim of the study is to analyze the main approaches to the energy transition in these countries and the barriers which may influence this process. The study applies foresight methods such as trend monitoring, case study, and STEPE methods for barrier analysis. The outcomes include identification of energy priorities in the national context, key directions for future transformation, and selected countries’ approaches to the energy transition after the COVID-19 pandemic. All considered countries are taking measures for the energy transition, but the motives, pace, and priorities differ. Their approaches were grouped into ideological (the European Union, the United States) and pragmatic (Saudi Arabia, China, and India). Both groups attribute priority to the gradual shift to clean technologies and carbon-neutral energy generation. Russia occupies an intermediate position due to attention to consumers as well as high interest in diversification of budget revenues and the shift from fossil fuel. The list of barriers to energy transition includes an inappropriate level of technological development, inconsistency of renewable power generation, substantial/rapid increase in rare earth metals prices, economic sectors’ dependence on fossil fuels, lack of investment in renewables, restricted access to technologies, trade barriers, lack of political will, use of access to advanced technology market as a political tool, and renewables’ dependence on weather regimes, etc. The novelty of the study is in the scope of selected cases that give a broad overview of existing approaches to the energy transition, identification of two energy transition patterns, as well as trends, wild cards, and barriers on the way. Full article
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