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This paper presents a transferable and adaptable approach for selecting a suitable Multi-Criteria Analysis (MCA) method covering the stages of the ‘MCA cycle’ for decision making in the renewable energy sector. Selecting a suitable MCA method for an individual project or case study is a...
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The sustainability goals for soy biodiesel are to contribute to energy security by providing a domestically sourced …, and to improve the quality of life. Sustainability is more than just greenhouse gas savings. The main aspects of … sustainability of soy biodiesel are environmental, economic and social effects of production and use. The intent of this paper is to …
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This paper highlights an evaluation of the potential level and nature of sustainability for large-scale photovoltaic … (PV) solar power plants. This was achieved by applying a mathematical model of sustainability to the results of a …
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In this contribution a particular attention is being given to the strategic objective for the establishment of a North Africa (NA) countries cooperation on water and clean energy superhighway as the solution to regional energy challenges, water shortages, climate change and other environmental...
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a sustainability perspective the integrated algal biofuels production, where biodiesel, bioethanol and biogas are …
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sustainability of green building, especially the social sustainability is largely overlooked. Future research opportunities were …
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Sustainability policy in the early 2000s is based on and therefore influenced by scientific literature on ‘transition …, ‘transformation’, which is also used in the context of socio-technical shifts towards sustainability. We expose the different …
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by focusing on efficiency, emission mitigation effect and sustainability. An emergy synthesis combing emergy accounting … itself with high biogas production efficiency and significant emission mitigation effect. Furthermore, the sustainability … zone analysis shows that the overall BLAS, planting and aquaculture subsystems maintain medium-term sustainability under …
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India and Indonesia are privileged with abundant biomass resource potentials, 23 Giga-watt (GW) and 50GW equivalents respectively, yet both countries harvest small proportions, with fundamentally different deployed policies and articulated strategies. In this regard, this paper focuses on...
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Renewable energy technologies are expected to take the leading role in the forthcoming energy generation portfolio in order to achieve sustainable energy generation. The major constraints for increasing penetration of renewable energy sources is their availability and intermittency, which can be...
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