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Successful Deployment of Renewable Energies

A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "A: Sustainable Energy".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 December 2022) | Viewed by 7035

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Dr. Sébastien Bourdin

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Sustainable and Regional Development, EM Normandie Business School, CEDEX, 76087 Le Havre, France
Interests: effectiveness of cohesion policy; economic integration in the European Union; circular economy

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

With the rise in concerns about global warming and even more so since the latest surge in oil prices, renewable energies, long considered a useful but still marginal addition to the energy supply problems of the various economies of the developed and developing world, are reappearing on the front of the energy scene, not only in the discourse but also in the concrete actions of many countries of the South and the North.

Even if more and more actors strongly recognize their conviction of the major role these energies could play in the service of sustainable development and welcome this renewed awareness of the international community, we observe many projects that fail and do not see the light of day.

Faced with the growing contestation that private and public renewable energy projects and decisions are generating at the local, national, and sometimes international levels, it seems necessary to question the conditions for their successful deployment.

In the literature, it has been demonstrated that it is difficult to reduce the causes of project failure to the simple opposition of citizens who do not wish to be located next to renewable energy facilities (NIMBY).

This Special Issue is dedicated to the analysis of the recent advances on the successful deployment of renewable energies. All types of the following research approaches are acceptable: experimental, theoretical, numerical, analytical, computational, case studies, and their mixtures. The main criteria for paper acceptance are academic excellence, scientific soundness, and the originality and novelty of applications, methods, fundamental findings, or experiments.

The Special Issue will include the following topics:

► Understanding the issues of environmental and social acceptability;

► Analyzing the social, economic, and environmental impacts of renewable energies projects and their link with success and failures of these projects;

► Identifying the conditions to be met for success to create shared value;

► Determining criteria and evaluating the conditions for project success;

► Proposing the integration of different theories to propose an integrated theory to explain the success of projects.

Prof. Dr. Sébastien Bourdin
Guest Editor

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Energies is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

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Successfully Navigating the Project Lifecycle for Deployment of Centralized Biogas Projects—The Case of Solrød Biogas
by Mark Booker Nielsen, Rikke Lybæk and Tyge Kjær
Energies 2022, 15(16), 5879; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/en15165879 - 13 Aug 2022
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The aim of this study is to identify non-technological critical success factors (CSFs) that influence the different phases of the project life cycle for the deployment of centralized biogas projects; as there is a knowledge gap in this area. This was performed by [...] Read more.
The aim of this study is to identify non-technological critical success factors (CSFs) that influence the different phases of the project life cycle for the deployment of centralized biogas projects; as there is a knowledge gap in this area. This was performed by applying a longitudinal process analysis approach and an analytical framework based on findings from previous studies. Data were collected through extensive document collection and analysis, combined with in-depth semi-structured interviews. The study resulted in the identification of a total of 30 non-technological critical success factors in the case of Solrød Biogas. These were subsequently linked to one of the different phases of the project lifecycle (conceptualization phase, planning phase, execution phase) or categorized as general CSFs. We hope that the findings in this study can help ensure better management of biogas projects and enhance the capabilities of governmental bodies in supporting projects in the future, so a higher rate of centralized biogas projects is successfully implemented both in Denmark and other countries Full article
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City-Level Transition to Low-Carbon Economy
by Alfredo Višković, Vladimir Franki and Angela Bašić-Šiško
Energies 2022, 15(5), 1737; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/en15051737 - 25 Feb 2022
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In recent years climate change has emerged as a global issue directly related to quality of life. In this context, one of the key goals in the next few decades will be to transition the global economy to a sustainable system. The nature [...] Read more.
In recent years climate change has emerged as a global issue directly related to quality of life. In this context, one of the key goals in the next few decades will be to transition the global economy to a sustainable system. The nature of the energy planning process dictates the application of complex models. There is no universal solution to the energy planning problem. Each territory requires a bespoke strategy aimed at utilising its specific potential. The research presented in this paper explores reaching a zero-carbon energy system at the city level. It establishes a step-by-step decarbonisation method and proposes an energy transition index (ETI). The index presented is used to evaluate different renewable energy sources (RES) deployment scenarios in the context of affordability, self-reliance, and sustainability. The main aspects and barriers of deploying sustainable energy solutions are also explored. Some of the key challenges of RES deployment are identified as capital intensity, output variability, and the regulatory framework. The approach applied in the paper focuses on a city-level strategy in line with the goal of satisfying demand through local energy sources. The presented analysis offers two basic conclusions: (1) each territory requires a bespoke strategy that can optimally utilise its energy potential and (2) building a local zero-carbon system can be feasible only by implementing energy storage technologies. Full article
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The Impact of Renewable Energy Sources on Financial Development, and Economic Growth: The Empirical Evidence from an Emerging Economy
by David Guan, Ubaldo Comite, Muhammad Safdar Sial, Asma Salman, Boyao Zhang, Stefan B. Gunnlaugsson, Urszula Mentel and Grzegorz Mentel
Energies 2021, 14(23), 8033; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/en14238033 - 01 Dec 2021
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Developing energy from renewable sources and modernizing the energy system are critical components of China’s efforts to combat climate change. Policymakers and authorities have made significant attempts to bring them. However, one of the major impediments to China’s energy revolution is financial limitations, [...] Read more.
Developing energy from renewable sources and modernizing the energy system are critical components of China’s efforts to combat climate change. Policymakers and authorities have made significant attempts to bring them. However, one of the major impediments to China’s energy revolution is financial limitations, which are inextricably linked to the country’s economic growth. The present research paper intends to investigate the relationship between economic growth and sustainable financial development on the use of energy from renewable sources in both the short and long run in the context of China. To achieve this, the researchers have utilized the panel data consisting of 10 years from 2011 to 2020. When compared to cross-sectional and time-series data samples, the panel data model offers many benefits. For starters, the panel data includes information on the passage of time and the cross-sectional area. Another benefit of using panel-data models with a larger degree of freedom is that they provide more stable and reliable estimates across short periods across cross-sections. In the case of the short run, there is a positive relationship between economic and financial development and the use of energy from renewable sources in the context of all of China. While in the case of long-term effects, the results indicate the adverse impact of financial development on the use of energy from renewable sources in the western regions of China. These results were deduced using the causality test Granger proposed to determine the path of the causal relationship and the direction of the relationship between the variables. These results indicated that the relationship between economic and financial development in east China was unidirectional, and the nature of the underlying relationship was causal. Meanwhile, in east and west China, economic development in China as a whole has been unidirectionally increasing energy from renewable sources. Our empirical findings suggest many strategies for promoting the growth of energy from renewable sources. Full article
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