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Energy efficiency rating of districts, case Finland

Hedman, Åsa; Sepponen, Mari; Virtanen, Mikko - In: Energy Policy 65 (2014) C, pp. 408-418

There is an increasing political pressure on the city planning to create more energy efficient city plans. Not only do the city plans have to enable and promote energy efficient solutions, but it also needs to be clearly assessed how energy efficient the plans are. City planners often have no or...

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Framing energy efficiency and renewable energy policies: An international comparison between Mexico and China

Valenzuela, Jose Maria; Qi, Ye - In: Energy Policy 51 (2012) C, pp. 128-137

This essay compares national strategies on mitigation of GHG emissions for Mexico and China. This state-centered analysis stresses the importance of the interaction between international commitments, the disposition of internal interest of economy-wide actors, and the legacies of policy making...

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Myths and facts about electricity in the U.S. South

Brown, Marilyn A.; Gumerman, Etan; Sun, Xiaojing; … - In: Energy Policy 40 (2012) C, pp. 231-241

This paper identifies six myths about clean electricity in the southern U.S. These myths are either propagated by the public at-large, shared within the environmental advocacy culture, or spread imperceptibly between policymakers. Using a widely accepted energy-economic modeling tool, we expose...

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Determinants of innovation in energy intensive industry and implications for energy policy

Song, ChiUng; Oh, Wankeun - In: Energy Policy 81 (2015) C, pp. 122-130

innovation and analyze the effects of R&D on product and process innovations in EII in Korea. The Probit model is adopted to … estimate the effects of eight determinants in the Korea Innovation Survey 2008 data. The results of this study demonstrate that … innovation, while another determinant, R&D intensity, only has a strong and positive effect on process innovation in EII. Because …

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Innovation and adoption of energy efficient technologies: An exploratory analysis of Italian primary metal manufacturing SMEs

Trianni, Andrea; Cagno, Enrico; Worrell, Ernst - In: Energy Policy 61 (2013) C, pp. 430-440

of the market in which enterprises operate, as well as product and process innovation are factors affecting barriers to …

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Government funded renewable energy innovation in China

Huang, Cui; Su, Jun; Zhao, Xiaoyuan; Sui, Jigang; Ru, Peng - In: Energy Policy 51 (2012) C, pp. 121-127

's RE technology innovation and problems thereof. It finds that national science and technology programs are the main aspect … of China's RE technology innovation, and most of R&D funds for the RE technology come from China's three main national … programs. Besides, the overall expenditures on RE technology innovation constitute only a small proportion of China's total …

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A sustainable “building block”?: The paradoxical effects of thermal efficiency on U.S. power plants’ CO2 emissions

Grant, Don; Running, Katrina; Bergstrand, Kelly; York, … - In: Energy Policy 75 (2014) C, pp. 398-402

Under its recently proposed Clean Power Plan, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) gives states several “building blocks” to choose from to reduce their power plants’ CO2 emissions, including improving plants’ heat rate efficiency. However, skeptics suggest that precisely...

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Attitudes and behaviours of private sector landlords towards the energy efficiency of tenanted homes

Hope, Alexander John; Booth, Alexander - In: Energy Policy 75 (2014) C, pp. 369-378

The UK׳s housing stock generates approximately 27% of the country׳s total annual carbon emissions. In light of the legally binding targets to reduce carbon emissions, new housing is subject to a tightening of regulations governing energy demand and efficiency resulting in a gradual improvement...

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Analysis of energy efficiency and carbon dioxide reduction in the Chinese pulp and paper industry

Peng, Lihong; Zeng, Xiaoling; Wang, Yejun; Hong, Gui-Bing - In: Energy Policy 80 (2015) C, pp. 65-75

Pulp and paper production, an energy-intensive process, is among the main light industries contributing to energy saving and pollution emission reduction in China. The improvement of energy efficiency is essential for energy consumption and sustainable development. This study analyzes the...

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The appeal of the green deal: Empirical evidence for the influence of energy efficiency policy on renovating homeowners

Pettifor, H.; Wilson, C.; Chryssochoidis, G. - In: Energy Policy 79 (2015) C, pp. 161-176

considering energy efficiency measures. Using the innovation decision process (Rogers, 2003) as a conceptual framing of the …

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