Recent scholarly attention shows increasing involvement of local low-carbon energy initiatives (LLCEIs) in governance and policy, in particular in relation to innovations regarding low-carbon energy and energy efficiency. The future perspective of ac...
Recent scholarly attention shows that grassroots civil society low-carbon energy initiatives increasingly become part of the subnational climate change governance landscape. Despite their potency in view of consumer-owned distributed generation and e...
The social dimension of the transition to a low carbon economy is a key challenge to cities. The establishment of local energy initiatives (LEIs) has recently been attracting attention. It is of great importance to draw lessons from best practices wh...
Logistics, as a significant field for achieving energy-saving and carbon reduction goals, is recognized as a crucial direction for realizing the global “double carbon” objective, while vehicle path optimization is an effective method for...
Chinese cities have made significant progress in fostering low-carbon societies and piloting a variety of low-carbon measures. Nonetheless, the effective implementation of these initiatives and the long-term upkeep of related amenities rely heavily o...
With the deepening implementation of the dual-carbon strategy, the penetration rates of distributed power sources and flexible loads in new distribution grids continue to rise, posing significant challenges to system security and stability due to out...
The urban housing sector plays a significant role in global energy consumption and carbon emissions, making the sustainable transformation of domestic buildings essential to achieving climate goals. Urban housing is also linked to the energy transiti...
Promoting synergies between ecological conservation and low-carbon development is an important pathway toward sustainable development. As a major institutional initiative for natural ecological conservation in China, the National Park (NP) pilot poli...
Remote community initiatives for renewable energy are rapidly emerging across Canada but with varying numbers, success rates, and strategies. To meet low-carbon transition goals, the need to coordinate technology deployment and long-term policy to gu...
The background of “dual carbon” is accelerating low-carbon transformation in the energy field, and oil field enterprises are facing challenges in energy conservation and emissions reduction for sustainable development. However, oil field...
The COVID-19 pandemic and Russia’s war on Ukraine have impacted the global economy, including the energy sector. The pandemic caused drastic fluctuations in energy demand, oil price shocks, disruptions in energy supply chains, and hampered ener...
Under the environment of globalized energy restructuring and achieving the goal of “peak carbon and carbon neutrality”, this paper proposes an optimal scheduling method based on the improved cosine algorithm for island microgrids, which r...
The significant energy demands of wine production pose both a challenge and an opportunity for adopting a low-carbon, more sustainable and potentially less expensive energy model. Nevertheless, the (dis)incentives for the wider adoption of local prod...
Using panel data from 30 Chinese provinces over 2013–2023, this study examines green FinTech and the transition in energy consumption structure. Green FinTech is measured by the coupling coordination degree between FinTech and green finance, wh...
Against the backdrop of China’s “dual-carbon” initiative, this study innovatively applies a process-based life cycle assessment (PLCA) methodology, meticulously tracking energy and carbon flows across material production, transporta...
This paper presents a practical methodology to facilitate decision-making for the development of a renewable energy community (REC) in the municipality of Hersonissos in Crete, Greece. The impact of energy sharing produced from renewables through dir...
Energy resilience can be reached with a secure, sustainable, competitive, and affordable system. In order to achieve energy resilience in the urban environment, urban-scale energy models play a key role in supporting the promotion and identification...
Despite the collective promise of integrating more open (broader-based, participatory) city-level governance into the global energy governance regime, little attention has been paid to the different impact logics and assumptions underpinning local pr...
As an important energy base in China, the economic development of Shanxi Province highly depended on coal resources. However, huge coal consumption produced a large amount of carbon dioxide and aggravated ecological problems. Thus, this study uses en...
Driven by global carbon reduction targets, supersulfated cement has emerged as a promising low-carbon cementitious material. This study investigates the influence of a polycarboxylate superplasticizer (PCE) on the rheological behavior and early inter...
Accurate forecasting of CO2 emissions is essential for evaluating emission-reduction pathways and supporting progress toward carbon-peaking and sustainable-development goals. Such forecasting is often challenging because macroeconomic datasets are sm...
Investigating the coordination between greenhouse-oriented cultivated-land transformation and low-carbon agricultural emission performance is important for optimizing land use and advancing agricultural decarbonization. Using data for 31 mainland Chi...
Driven by the increasing reliance on maritime transportation, achieving energy efficiency and reducing emissions in automated container terminals (ACTs) has become an urgent priority. The complex structure of a low-carbon terminal, along with the int...
Advanced Trombe walls are evolving from passive heat-storage elements into multifunctional façade systems that integrate latent storage, photovoltaic generation, controllable airflow, and intelligent operation. Yet evidence on the relative ben...
As digital technology and green development become more integrated, exploring how the digital economy affects energy consumption is vital for coordinating economic growth with energy conservation and emission reduction. This study uses panel data fro...
As drivers of climate action, cities are taking measures to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, which if left unabated pose a challenge to meeting long-term climate targets. The economics of climate action needs to be at the forefront of climate d...
Innovative approaches in the Portland cement industry, aligned with circular economy principles, offer a promising solution to reduce the environmental impacts. These methods can initially target the architectural elements with lower structural deman...
Within the area of environmental perception, automatic navigation, object detection, and computer vision are crucial and demanding fields with many applications in modern industries, such as multi-target long-term visual tracking in automated product...
High-density cities face dual challenges of aging populations and climate change, driving widespread renewal of aging residential communities. Current practices, however, often treat sustainability goals (e.g., energy efficiency, carbon reduction) an...
Healthcare services have now become a fundamental requirement for all individuals owing to rising pollution levels and shifting lifestyles brought on by fast modernization. The hospital is a specialized healthcare facility where doctors, nurses, and...
The European Union aims to achieve climate neutrality by 2050, prioritizing energy efficiency particularly in the building sector. Despite significant policies, such as the EU Green Deal and Renovation Wave initiative, the rate of deep energy renovat...
Through the implementation of low carbon-based energy systems and participatory modes of governance, there are countless collective initiatives progressing towards a sustainable and resilient energy model. Local alternatives necessarily have to be ab...
With the rapid penetration of renewable energy, grid-connected microgrids have become a cornerstone of low-carbon power systems, while also posing major challenges for coordinated scheduling under coupled economic and environmental goals. The resulti...
This paper focuses on transformational processes in a post Paris agreement context. It uses IMACLIM-R, an E3 (Environment–Energy–Economy) model allowing for the integration of urban forms, transport dynamics, environmental policies and behaviors. Bui...
The paper presents a survey on the situation in terms of solutions for grid integration throughout the Mediterranean area in the framework of climate change and energy transition. The objective of the study is focused on Mediterranean region connecti...
Modeling carbonate growth in fractures and pores is important for understanding carbon sequestration in the environment or when supersaturated solutions are injected into rocks. Here, we study the simple but nontrivial problem of calcite growth on fr...
Prior research has demonstrated that distributed optical fiber sensors (DOFS) based on Rayleigh scattering can be embedded in carbon fiber/epoxy composite structures to rapidly detect temperature changes approaching 1000 °C, such as would be expe...
Optimized dispatch of microgrids is crucial for improving the economic performance and long-term sustainability of modern low-carbon power systems. In particular, accurate economic dispatch modeling for battery energy storage systems (BESSs) is essen...
In response to issues such as disordered airflow distribution and prominent local hotspots in campus non-standard data centers, this study took a non-standard raised-floor air-supply data center at a university in Hangzhou as the research object, and...
Gold–palladium (Au–Pd) bimetallic nanostructures with engineered plasmon-enhanced activity sustainably drive energy-intensive chemical reactions at low temperatures with solar simulated light. A series of alloy and core–shell Au–Pd nanoparticles (NPs...
Carbon fiber-reinforced polyetheretherketone (CF/PEEK) thermoplastic composites are increasingly applied in aerospace structures due to their outstanding mechanical and thermal properties. However, their strengthening mechanism and damage evolution u...
Hydrogen is critical for achieving carbon neutrality as a clean energy source. However, its low ambient energy density poses challenges for storage, making efficient and safe hydrogen storage a bottleneck. Metal hydride-based solid-state hydrogen sto...
The carbon emissions trading system functions as an essential policy tool for coordinating greenhouse gas reduction alongside pollution abatement as well as improving energy and environmental quality. It carries great significance in advancing the sh...
Over the last few decades, and more prominently currently, many countries have launched and reinforced campaigns to reduce CO2 emissions from all human activities and, in the area of energy, promote energy generating technologies from low carbon, ren...
The present investigation was conducted on the low-speed impact response of quasi-isotropic [±45/0/90°]xs hybrid composite through laboratory level experimental tests. The purpose was to understand the behaviour that the different stacking...
Low- and middle-income countries have tremendous potential for renewable energy production, including production of renewable carbon from locally prolific crops. In this work, bamboo endemic to West Africa (Bambusa vulgaris) was studied as a feedstoc...
It is well known that the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) of countries resides at or close to the top of the global table of CO2 emissions per capita and its economy relies heavily on its fossil fuels. This provides a context for green building progra...
The high-proportion integration of renewable energy sources, represented by wind power and photovoltaics, into active distribution networks (ADNs) can effectively alleviate the pressure associated with advancing China’s dual-carbon goals. Howev...
Electrification is an efficient way to decarbonize by replacing fossil fuels with low-emission power. In addition, energy efficiency measures can reduce consumption, making it easier to shift to a zero-carbon society. In Québec, upgrades to aging bui...
This study evaluates the use of City Energy Analyst, an urban building energy modelling tool, to design zero-carbon energy communities in low-industry isolated island settings. The research aims to test the effectiveness of the software during the de...
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