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Energy Management for Sustainable Development

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 22045

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Prof. Dr. Kittisak Jermsittiparsert

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Faculty of Education, University of City Island, Gazimagusa 99450, Cyprus
Interests: political science; public and private management; international political economy; social research
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Dr. Thanaporn Sriyakul

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Faculty of Business Administration, Mahanakorn University of Technology, Bangkok 10530, Thailand
Interests: politics; public policy; business research; sustainable development
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Dr. Muhammad Haseeb

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Faculty of Business & Law, Taylor's University, Selangor 47500, Malaysia
Interests: environmental economics; energy economics; environmental development and sustainability

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

“Energy” is undeniably one of the fundamental issues associated with the world’s sustainable development goals that currently receive the highest priorities. “Energy management” has been accepted worldwide as playing a vital role in the promotion of sustainable development. Such conditions as economic growth, social development and conflicts, and deterioration of resources and environment have been explored in view of the world’s energy situation. Efforts to find ways to most efficiently utilize energy and to advance the use of clean and renewable alternative energy, such as solar, wind, hydro, subterranean, oceanic, hydrogen, biomass, and bio energy sources, have increasingly gained traction in the hope that a new knowledge base can be constructed for academic purposes and furthered for engineering and economic applications.

This Special Issue is an opportunity for academics, researchers, policymakers, and businesspeople to present their findings from empirical research, lessons learned from practice, and opinions formed from thorough analyses of cases in energy management towards sustainable development. The Special Issue is also designed to cover at least three dimensions of the issue—policies and strategies, business and economics, and technology and industry. Cases from countries and regions all over the world, examples of energy management in the business or economic world, and applications in engineering, such as the case of electric vehicles, are all welcomed.

Prof. Dr. Kittisak Jermsittiparsert
Dr. Thanaporn Sriyakul
Dr. Muhammad Haseeb
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • sustainable energy
  • energy policy
  • clean energy
  • renewable energy
  • energy mix
  • energy consumption
  • energy markets and prices
  • carbon emission
  • environmental degradation
  • electric vehicle

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28 pages, 580 KiB  
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Real-Time Energy Management and Load Scheduling with Renewable Energy Integration in Smart Grid
by Fahad R. Albogamy, Sajjad Ali Khan, Ghulam Hafeez, Sadia Murawwat, Sheraz Khan, Syed Irtaza Haider, Abdul Basit and Klaus-Dieter Thoben
Sustainability 2022, 14(3), 1792; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su14031792 - 04 Feb 2022
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With the smart grid development, the modern electricity market is reformatted, where residential consumers can actively participate in the demand response (DR) program to balance demand with generation. However, lack of user knowledge is a challenging issue in responding to DR incentive signals. [...] Read more.
With the smart grid development, the modern electricity market is reformatted, where residential consumers can actively participate in the demand response (DR) program to balance demand with generation. However, lack of user knowledge is a challenging issue in responding to DR incentive signals. Thus, an Energy Management Controller (EMC) emerged that automatically respond to DR signal and solve energy management problem. On this note, in this work, a hybrid algorithm of Enhanced Differential Evolution (EDE) and Genetic Algorithm (GA) is developed, namely EDGE. The EMC is programmed based with EDGE algorithm to automatically respond to DR signals to solve energy management problems via scheduling three types of household load: interruptible, non-interruptible, and hybrid. The EDGE algorithm has critical features of both algorithms (GA and EDE), enabling the EMC to generate an optimal schedule of household load to reduce energy expense, carbon emission, Peak to Average Ratio (PAR), and user discomfort. To validate the proposed EDGE algorithm, simulations are conducted compared to the existing algorithms like Binary Particle Swarm Optimization (BPSO), GA, Wind Driven Optimization (WDO), and EDE. Results illustrate that the proposed EDGE algorithm outperforms benchmark algorithms in energy expense minimization, carbon emission minimization, PAR alleviation, and user discomfort maximization. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Energy Management for Sustainable Development)
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Trade Liberalization and Environmental Performance Index: Mediation Role of Climate Change Performance and Greenfield Investment
by Ali Raza, Hongguang Sui, Kittisak Jermsittiparsert, Wioletta Żukiewicz-Sobczak and Pawel Sobczak
Sustainability 2021, 13(17), 9734; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su13179734 - 30 Aug 2021
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At present, concerns regarding climate change are common, especially in countries more vulnerable to environmental degradation. Greenhouse gases, including carbon emissions, are mainly considered to deteriorate the environment. Despite substantial agreement on many environmental issues, there are also important differences between regions and [...] Read more.
At present, concerns regarding climate change are common, especially in countries more vulnerable to environmental degradation. Greenhouse gases, including carbon emissions, are mainly considered to deteriorate the environment. Despite substantial agreement on many environmental issues, there are also important differences between regions and countries, and often, within nations. Accordingly, this study aims to examine the environmental performance of South and East Asian countries and its association with trade and other economic variables. Panel regression techniques and robust checks are used to examine the data, which covers 15 years from 2002 to 2016. The findings suggest an extensive negative association between trade liberalization and the environmental performance of selected countries. It is also shown that climate change performance is an important channel for the overall environmental change. The results regarding heterogeneous differences affirm the concept of sustainability and the pollution halo hypothesis. However, it is suggested that each country should make an effort to improve its environmental performance along with economic development. The role of green innovation and renewable energy is very crucial in this regard. The outcomes of this study could be helpful for researchers and policymakers to form better policies regarding the environment and climate change. Full article
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Collaborative Allocation of Energy Consumption, Air Pollutants and CO2 Emissions in China
by Jiekun Song, Rui Chen and Xiaoping Ma
Sustainability 2021, 13(16), 9443; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su13169443 - 23 Aug 2021
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Energy consumption is an important source of the emissions of CO2 and air pollutants such as SO2 and NOX. Reducing energy consumption can realize the simultaneous reduction of air pollutants and CO2 emissions to a certain extent. This [...] Read more.
Energy consumption is an important source of the emissions of CO2 and air pollutants such as SO2 and NOX. Reducing energy consumption can realize the simultaneous reduction of air pollutants and CO2 emissions to a certain extent. This study examines the collaborative allocation of energy consumption and the emissions of SO2, NOX and CO2 in China. In contrast to previous studies, this paper proposes an improved centralized DEA model that takes into account the correlation between energy consumption and air environmental emissions, the economic development demand and the energy resource endowment of different provinces. The initial allocation scheme is obtained based on the principle of equity. Then, the initial allocation results are brought into the improved centralized DEA model to maximize the expected output. The empirical analysis of projected data for 2025 shows that the looser the restrictions of energy consumption, the greater the optimal economic output. When the energy consumption of each province is allowed to fluctuate within the range of 85% to 115% of the initial quota, the total GDP is the largest and 20.62% higher than the initial GDP. The optimal allocation scheme is more equitable than the initial scheme and realizes absolute interpersonal equity and economic equity. Eighteen provinces bear the pressures of energy saving, emission reduction or GDP growth, with average pressure indexes of 11.46%, 16.85% and 40.62%, respectively. The pressures on the major regions involved in the “Belt and Road”, Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region and Yangtze River Economic Belt national strategies will thus be reduced significantly; the maximum pressures on energy saving, emission reduction and GDP growth are 10.03%, 12.17% and 29.84%, respectively. China can take a series of measures to promote regional coordinated development and improve the realization of optimal allocation schemes, including establishing unified resource asset trading platforms, improving the methods of regional cooperation, building effective transportation and logistics transport networks to weaken the barriers among regions and implementing differentiated regional policies and regional interest coordination mechanisms. Full article
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Lost Energy of Water Spilled over Hydropower Dams
by Andrej Predin, Matej Fike, Marko Pezdevšek and Gorazd Hren
Sustainability 2021, 13(16), 9119; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su13169119 - 14 Aug 2021
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The present paper presents a view of water spilled over hydropower plants as an energy loss. In the current climate conditions, flood events are becoming more frequent due to human impact on the environment; water spills are also more frequent, which means more [...] Read more.
The present paper presents a view of water spilled over hydropower plants as an energy loss. In the current climate conditions, flood events are becoming more frequent due to human impact on the environment; water spills are also more frequent, which means more and more energy is lost. How much water is spilled and, consequently, how much energy is lost is shown in the present article on the chain of power plants on the Sava River in the five years from 2015 to 2019. An analytical assessment of the current situation in the lock was carried out, which showed that the available water through the locks could be used efficiently. The paper presents a case study of one overflow event lasting 48 h. The calculated theoretical losses of energy (of spilled water) and possible technical implementation for capturing losses are given. The proposed technical implementation is based on established technology, so we could expect that the approach is feasible. The results show that the estimated spilled water energy potential reaches about 40% of the actual spilled water or energy lost. Full article
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Agricultural Land or Photovoltaic Parks? The Water–Energy–Food Nexus and Land Development Perspectives in the Thessaly Plain, Greece
by G.-Fivos Sargentis, Paraskevi Siamparina, Georgia-Konstantina Sakki, Andreas Efstratiadis, Michalis Chiotinis and Demetris Koutsoyiannis
Sustainability 2021, 13(16), 8935; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su13168935 - 11 Aug 2021
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Water, energy, land, and food are vital elements with multiple interactions. In this context, the concept of a water–energy–food (WEF) nexus was manifested as a natural resource management approach, aiming at promoting sustainable development at the international, national, or local level and eliminating [...] Read more.
Water, energy, land, and food are vital elements with multiple interactions. In this context, the concept of a water–energy–food (WEF) nexus was manifested as a natural resource management approach, aiming at promoting sustainable development at the international, national, or local level and eliminating the negative effects that result from the use of each of the four resources against the other three. At the same time, the transition to green energy through the application of renewable energy technologies is changing and perplexing the relationships between the constituent elements of the nexus, introducing new conflicts, particularly related to land use for energy production vs. food. Specifically, one of the most widespread “green” technologies is photovoltaic (PV) solar energy, now being the third foremost renewable energy source in terms of global installed capacity. However, the growing development of PV systems results in ever expanding occupation of agricultural lands, which are most advantageous for siting PV parks. Using as study area the Thessaly Plain, the largest agricultural area in Greece, we investigate the relationship between photovoltaic power plant development and food production in an attempt to reveal both their conflicts and their synergies. Full article
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A Novel Machine Learning-Based Framework for Optimal and Secure Operation of Static VAR Compensators in EAFs
by Li Zeng, Tian Xia, Salah K. Elsayed, Mahrous Ahmed, Mostafa Rezaei, Kittisak Jermsittiparsert, Udaya Dampage and Mohamed A. Mohamed
Sustainability 2021, 13(11), 5777; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su13115777 - 21 May 2021
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A static VAR compensator (SVC) is a critical component for reactive power compensation in electric arc furnaces (EAFs) that is used to relieve the flicker impacts and maintain the voltage level. A weak voltage profile can not only reduce the power-quality services, but [...] Read more.
A static VAR compensator (SVC) is a critical component for reactive power compensation in electric arc furnaces (EAFs) that is used to relieve the flicker impacts and maintain the voltage level. A weak voltage profile can not only reduce the power-quality services, but can also result in system instability in severe cases. The cybersecurity of EAFs is becoming a significant concern due to their cyber-physical structure. The reliance of SVC controllers on reactive power measurement and network communications has resulted in a cyber-vulnerability point for unauthorized access to the EAF, which can affect its normal operation. This paper addresses concerns about cyber attacks on EAFs, which can cause network communication issues in measurement data for SVCs. Three significant and different types of cyber attacks that are launched on SVC controllers—a replay attack, delay attack, and false data injection attack (FDIA)—were simulated and investigated. In order to stop the activities of cyber attacks, a secured anomaly detection model (ADM) based on a prediction interval is proposed. The proposed model is dependent on a support vector regression and a new smooth cost function for constructing the optimal and symmetrical intervals. A modified algorithm based on teaching–learning-based optimization was developed to adapt the ADM’s parameters during training. The simulation’s outcomes on a genuine dataset showed the strong capability of the proposed model against cyber attacks in EAFs. Full article
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