In the context of growing concerns about power disruptions, grid reliability and the need for decarbonization, this study evaluates a broad range of clean backup power systems (BPSs) to replace traditional emergency diesel generators. A scenario-base...
The role of green and low-carbon energy (gLE) resources in realizing the envisaged future decarbonized energy generation and supply cannot be overemphasized. The world has witnessed growing attention to the application of green energy (gE) sources su...
29 November 2022
2011–2019 was the critical period of the low-carbon transformation of the power industry, reflecting the deepening influence of market mechanisms. Decarbonization of the new power system is a systematic project that needs to strengthen the top-...
This article addresses the operational challenges facing maritime vessels in the context of decarbonization, with a focus on developing staged recommendations for the integration of power limitation systems and alternative fuels. The systematisation...
Power sector companies are crucial in global decarbonization, accounting for 32% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Despite frameworks like the Science-Based Targets initiative (SBTi), there is ongoing debate about the adequacy of current target-set...
In the context of power system decarbonization, the demand-side strategy for increasing the share of renewable energy is studied for two constrained energy systems. This strategy, which is currently widely suggested in policies on the energy transiti...
Medium size developing countries like Chile that commit to decarbonization goals need to carefully assess the trade-offs associated to their intensity and timing, since most of the technologies required will be absorbed, not produced, by these countr...
This paper estimates potential changes in the total system cost (TSC) of decarbonization of two regional transmission organizations (RTOs) in the United States (U.S.)—Midcontinent Independent System Operator-North (MISO-N) and Southwest Power P...
This study examines the adoption of Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) and Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) as strategic tools for decarbonization in the oil and gas sector. Focusing on the 21 largest oil and gas companies across Europe, North Amer...
This study explores innovative strategies for decarbonizing sludge thermal treatments used in electrical power generation, with a focus on integrating sensor technologies and artificial intelligence. Sludge, a carbon-intensive byproduct of wastewater...
Carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) is a key technology for decarbonizing existing or newly designed fossil fuel power plants, which in the short to medium term remains essential to offset the variability of nonprogrammable renewable sour...
Decarbonization stands as one of humanity’s most pressing challenges, demanding collective efforts from multiple sectors to meet established goals. The transportation industry plays a pivotal role in this endeavor, with the maritime sector offe...
This paper examines the transformative effects of decarbonization on electricity market design, emphasizing the challenges and opportunities posed by the rapid integration of renewable energy sources such as wind and solar. It analyzes the evolution...
As Germany struggles to meet its near-term emissions reduction targets in lagging sectors like heating or transport, the need to identify energy transition pathways beyond power generation is urgent. This paper presents an investigation of tangible a...
In order to succeed in the energy transition, the power system must become more flexible in order to enable the economical hosting of more intermittent distributed energy resources (DER) and smart grid technologies. New technical solutions, generally...
This study investigates the crucial role of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technology in mitigating CO2 emissions from Poland’s power systems, which is essential not only for meeting climate targets but also for maintaining energy security in...
8 February 2023
In recent years, the use of nuclear energy as propulsion for merchant ships has been proposed as a means of promoting the transition toward maritime decarbonization and environmentally sustainable shipping. However, there are concerns that nuclear-po...
Sustainable power-system operation requires carbon-reduction strategies that are emission-effective, physically deliverable, economically feasible, and compatible with user-side decarbonization claims. As Scope 2 carbon accounting increasingly emphas...
The decarbonization of power systems plays a great part in the carbon neutrality goal. Currently, researchers have explored reducing carbon in power systems in terms of the optimization of energy supply structure and operation strategies, but ignored...
The cement industry is one of the industries with the highest contribution to global CO2 emissions due to its energy-intensive processes and the use of fossil fuels. This study evaluates the integration of the P2M-CC (power-to-methane with carbon cap...
In view of the European Union’s strategy on hydrogen for decarbonization and buildings’ decarbonization targets, the use of hydrogen in buildings is expected in the future. Backup power in buildings is usually provided with diesel generat...
Many companies in the mining industry include decarbonization of production among their key strategic goals as part of their internal sustainability strategy. This need is driven by a number of factors: stricter regulation in the area of carbon footp...
Decarbonization of the aviation sector is crucial to reaching the global climate targets. We quantified the environmental impacts of Power-to-Liquid kerosene produced via Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis from electricity and carbon dioxide from air as one b...
Decarbonization of urban mobility requires complex, interconnected actions. The instruments for decarbonizing urban mobility include urban collective transport, bicycles and means of personal transport, cybermobility and electromobility. The article...
Hydrogen-based technologies are widely considered promising pathways for decarbonizing power generation and industrial energy systems; however, their overall sustainability depends strongly on both production routes and conversion efficiencies. This...
The electrical power sector plays an important role in the economic growth and development of every country around the world. Total global demand for electric energy is growing both in developed and developing economies. The commitment to the decarbo...
The European Union’s energy transition is based on three fundamental pillars, the realisation of which is intended to achieve climate neutrality by 2050. These pillars comprise the decarbonization of the economy, the development of renewable en...
Island power systems must decarbonize without the flexibility that an interconnection provides. The Canary Islands have advanced their decarbonization target to 2040, yet Tenerife still generates about 80% of its electricity from oil, and the route t...
Many future electricity scenarios, including those from the International Energy Agency, use natural gas to bridge the transition to renewables, in particular as a means of balancing intermittent generation from new renewables. Given that such strate...
Power-to-methane (P2M) technology is expected to have a great impact on the future of the global energy sector. Despite the growing amount of related research, its potential disruptive impact has not been assessed yet. This could significantly influe...
The European decarbonization goals and requirement for energy independence are mostly relying on intermittent renewable energy sources for electrification. A numerical model was developed to simulate the operation of a steam generator, allowing a stu...
Power generation dependency on natural gas in Uzbekistan is high, with more than 85% of the country’s electricity production coming from natural gas. Hence, natural gas-fired power plants constitute the largest proportion of the country’s...
With the increasing proportion of low-carbon power in electricity generation mix, power generation will be transformed from carbon-intensive to metal-intensive. In this context, metal and GHG transfers embodied in electricity transmission of China fr...
In Italy, the de-carbonization process descending from the National Energy Strategy (NES) of the November 2017 and the National Energy and Climate Plans (NECPs) of December 2019 has led two specific effects: the progressive ending of coal use as a fu...
Out of 2 TWe of coal power plant capacity in operation globally today, more than half is less than 14 years old. Climate policy related to limiting CO2-emissions makes the longer-term operation of these plants untenable. In this study, we assess the...
Accurate wind speed and power forecasting are key to optimizing renewable wind station management, which is essential for smart and zero-energy cities. This paper presents a novel integrated wind speed–power forecasting system (WSPFS) that oper...
The decarbonization of energy systems has intensified interest in hydrogen-enriched natural gas (H2NG) as a transitional fuel for combined heat and power (CHP) units and micro-CHP systems. This review consolidates experimental and numerical studies t...
The intensive livestock sector’s reliance on fossil fuels for space heating (SH) necessitates sustainable alternatives to reduce agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This study conducts a cradle-to-grave Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) to e...
The key direction of political actions in the field of sustainable development of the energy sector and economy is the process of energy transformation (decarbonization) and increasing the share of renewable energy sources (RES) in the supply of prim...
Green hydrogen and power-to-X technologies hold significant potential in the global energy transition towards net-zero emissions. This is attributed to the premise that these technologies can decarbonize numerous sectors worldwide by providing versat...
The essence of this work is to explore the potential of shore-side power as a sustainable and efficient solution for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions from passenger ships during their berthing periods in ports. Cruise ships—including both cr...
As electric grids decarbonize and distributed energy resources (DERs) become increasingly prevalent, interconnection assessments must evolve to reflect operational variability and control flexibility. This paper highlights key modeling limitations ob...
Accelerating the low-carbon transition of China’s coal-fired power sector is essential for advancing national sustainability goals and fulfilling global climate commitments. This study introduces an integrated, data-driven analytical framework...
International shipping is indispensable to global commerce, yet it remains a significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. Although waste heat recovery has been applied in other industries, its performance and economic viability in shipping ar...
This study develops an optimization-based scheduling framework for coordinating the energy-intensive operations of a steel enterprise with estimated solar power availability. Unlike prior approaches that focus primarily on process efficiency or carbo...
Provincial power systems must decarbonize while sustaining rapid demand growth and improving air quality; yet, few integrated assessments separate the contributions of renewable expansion and carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) for China&...
The power-to-methane technology is promising for long-term, high-capacity energy storage. Currently, there are two different industrial-scale methanation methods: the chemical one (based on the Sabatier reaction) and the biological one (using microor...
As the core region of global steel production and consumption, the zero-carbon transition of China, Japan, and South Korea is crucial for global climate goals and industrial chain sustainability. Hydrogen-based direct reduction iron (H-DRI) productio...
Maritime transport, responsible for over 90% of global trade, is a significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions due to its reliance on fossil fuels. Achieving international decarbonization targets set by the International Maritime Organization...
The marine industry, being the backbone of world trade, is under tremendous pressure to reduce its environmental impact, mainly driven by reliance on fossil fuels and significant greenhouse gas emissions. This paper looks at hydrogen as a transformat...
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