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Where in the World Should We Produce Green Hydrogen? An Objective First-Pass Site Selection Open
Many nations have been investing in hydrogen energy in the most recent wave of development and numerous projects have been proposed, yet a substantial share of these projects remain at the conceptual or feasibility stage and have not progr…
Exploring Energy Poverty: Toward a Comprehensive Predictive Framework Open
Energy poverty focuses on energy affordability in developed nations but is most often used in the developing world in the context of a lack of access to electricity, clean cooking fuels, or technologies. About 1.2 billion people still lack…
Inherent Risk Analysis of Power Supply Management: Case of Belize’s System Operator and Third-Party Actors Open
System operators (SOs) manage power supply, focusing on risk management. In small emerging economies, proactive risk management is crucial as major disruptions require SOs to redirect resources into recovery efforts. Therefore, SOs priorit…
Review of Social Sustainability Assessments of Electricity Generating Systems Open
In the quest for sustainable development, the energy sector must address the three pillars of sustainability: economic, environmental, and social. However, compared to the other pillars, research on social sustainability has been relativel…
Decarbonizing the global steel industry in a resource-constrained future—a systems perspective Open
Decarbonizing the global steel industry hinges on three key limited resources: geological carbon storage, zero-emission electricity and end-of-life scrap. Existing system analysis calls for an accelerated expansion of the supply of these r…
Comprehensive Environmental Impact Analysis of Dry Processing Methods for Specialty Coffee Beans in Bondowoso, Indonesia Using Life Cycle Assessment Open
Smallholders play a key role in specialty coffee production. Implementing industrial ecology coffee (IEC) practices is crucial for sustainable coffee production (SCP), aiming to add value, achieve zero waste, and respect the environment. F…
Price Risk Exposure of Small Participants in Liberalized Multi-National Power Markets: A Case Study on the Belize–Mexico Interconnection Open
This study examined the price risk of the Belize–Mexico interconnection using ARMA-ARCH models to assess electricity pricing volatility and autoregression to determine the influence of conditional volatilities and import consumption. The f…
Global demand for green hydrogen-based steel: Insights from 28 scenarios Open
Growing expectations are being placed on green hydrogen-based steel for decarbonising the global steel industry. However, the scale of the expected demand is dispersed across numerous case studies, resulting in a fragmented picture. This s…
Energy Security Blind Spots of Gas, Oil, and Coal Exporters Open
The global narrative around domestic energy security is dominated by the paradigm of import-dependent countries, and as a result the interactions of energy export activities with domestic energy systems are not generally considered. In thi…
Developing Coffee Cherry Skin and Coffee Husk by Products as Sustainable Novel Food and Fuel Open
Coffee plantations can potentially support an integrated sustainable coffee production (SCP) system, particularly through the expanded utilization of by-products. Smallholders mostly manage coffee plantations in Indonesia. Coffee processin…
Cost Projection of Global Green Hydrogen Production Scenarios Open
A sustainable future hydrogen economy hinges on the development of green hydrogen and the shift away from grey hydrogen, but this is highly reliant on reducing production costs, which are currently too high for green hydrogen to be competi…
Envisioning the Linkages Between Consumption and Production for Sustainability: Outcomes from Expert Workshops in Malaysia Open
This paper describes and analyzes a workshop-based procedure to identify critical consumption and production (CP) linkages for sustainability, applied in the Klang Valley, an urban conglomeration centered in Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya, Mal…
Just transitions at the local level: insights from coal communities in Japan Open
International scholarship and policy advice is gaining interest in understanding what a just transition means for communities, the lived environment and sense of place. At the same time, Japan is facing increasing pressure to accelerate it…
Potential Domestic Energy System Vulnerabilities from Major Exports of Green Hydrogen: A Case Study of Australia Open
Australia has clear aspirations to become a major global exporter of hydrogen as a replacement for fossil fuels and as part of the drive to reduce CO2 emissions, as set out in the National Hydrogen Strategy released in 2019 jointly by the …
Study on biogas production from coffee wastes and cow-dung fermentation and its use towards reducing emissions from coffee roasting Open
The production of high-quality coffee for export is an important industry in Indonesia. However, coffee processing produces unavoidable waste and emissions to the environment; 1 kg of cherry beans (CB) needs 3 kg of water for processing (2…
Review of Policies for Indonesia’s Electricity Sector Transition and Qualitative Evaluation of Impacts and Influences Using a Conceptual Dynamic Model Open
Indonesia’s final energy demand is projected to increase by 70% in the next decade, with electricity expected to account for 32%. The increasing electricity demand poses a potential threat to national emissions reduction targets since foss…
Framework for Assessment of the Economic Vulnerability of Energy-Resource-Exporting Countries Open
Energy security is widely examined from the perspective of energy import vulnerability, but it is less common to evaluate the vulnerability of energy exporters. This paper presents an assessment framework and quantitative scorecard for eva…
Just Transitions in Japan Open
About Just Transitions to Decarbonisation
Just Transitions in Japan Open
About Just Transitions to Decarbonisation
A Historical Analysis of Hydrogen Economy Research, Development, and Expectations, 1972 to 2020 Open
Global climate change concerns have pushed international governmental actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by adopting cleaner technologies, hoping to transition to a more sustainable society. The hydrogen economy is one potential lo…
Will Capacity Mechanisms Conflict with Carbon Pricing? Open
Climate change and related national mitigation targets make the decarbonization of the power sector an urgent need. The power sector faces the challenge of considering the design and interaction between emission reduction policies, which c…