With the reduction in fossil fuels and their environmental impacts, the use of solar cells as green energies in various countries is expanding. It is certainly neither effective nor necessarily possible to generalize a single specific model for different countries considering their different...

Purpose: The main aim of the study was to estimate the levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) for a photovoltaic island project in the offshore area of Romania and the most effective possibilities to increase its profitability by reducing this indicator. Design/methodology/approach: The present...

Throughout its brief history, California has established itself as a national or international leader in key industries—such as aerospace, computing and entertainment—through early mover pre-emption and strong clustering effects. California firms were the initial world leaders in producing...

This paper focuses on the climate change challenge faced by Central & Eastern European countries both those inside the European Union and those outside it. They have enormous energy intensity and associated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, mainly from energy production, which is oil, and worse,...