Optimal Decision of Electricity Transaction for Integrated Energy Service Providers under Renewable Portfolio Standards

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lei Hou ◽  
Bobo Chen ◽  
Yixiao Wang ◽  
Ankang Miao ◽  
Kun Su ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Service Providers ◽  
Optimal Decision ◽  
Renewable Portfolio Standards ◽  
Energy Service

scholarly journals Unanticipated Consequences of Reforms in School Governance

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 273-298
Author(s):  
Jolanta Urbanovič ◽  
Michiel S. de Vries ◽  
Barbara Stankevič
Keyword(s):  
Side Effects ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Local Level ◽  
School Governance ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
School Level ◽  
Optimal Decision ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Depth Analysis

Abstract This article argues that policy development and evaluations should not only incorporate whether and to what extent the policies achieve the intended goals, but should also take the unintended consequences of the policies into account. Based on the classic work of the sociologist Robert Merton, this article addresses the side-effects of attempts that have been made by the Lithuanian national government to improve on the governance of basic and high-schools. The intended goals of the policies concerned the increase of autonomy of school governance through the decentralization of responsibilities; increasing autonomy of and control over school governance; increasing market-driven governance, inducing competition and collaboration between schools, and altering the relation between service providers and recipients. An in-depth analysis shows that there were serious side-effects. Due to the limited knowledge and capabilities at the local level the policies resulted in sub-optimal decision-making at the school level. As the transfer went hand in hand with national laws and strict regulations, stipulating the financing and content of education, setting standards and uniform requirements this reduced the ability of schools to make autonomous decisions and rather turned them into bodies implementing national standards. A decrease in cost-efficiency is visible as every school has to make its own plans; administrative burdens increase, and insufficient funding results in a transfer of shortages instead of transferring the responsibility to find solutions for those shortages, and instead of becoming more collegiate, the relation between schools becomes competitive resulting in distrust with all the expected negative consequences. The plans to increase the autonomy of school governance could have developed rather differently if these unintended consequences had been taken into account beforehand. If such side-effects would be anticipated, that could have resulted in more realism, less one-sided and unfounded optimism and in the end, less frustration and demotivation.

Ecological and energy efficiency approaches to providing innovative development of municipal transport logistics

2019 ◽  
pp. 7-18
Author(s):  
Grygorii Monastyrskyi ◽  
Olena Borysiak
Keyword(s):  
Transport System ◽  
Public Transport ◽  
Energy Efficient ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Innovative Development ◽  
Transport Service ◽  
Service Companies ◽  
Energy Service ◽  
Ecological Types ◽  
Transport Logistics

Introduction. Climate change, limitation of natural energy resources indicate the increasing role of ecological and energy security. The actual issue is the usage of ecological types of transport, improving the municipal transport management system. According to this, the article is devoted to research of innovative directions of development of municipal transport logistics based on sustainable development principles. Methods. The methodological basis of the research is the general scientific and economic-statistical methods: analysis, synthesis, statistical method – to investigate the international experience of reforming the transport system; inductions and deductions – to determine directions of development of municipal transport logistics of Ukraine; abstract-logical, economic-mathematical programming – to evaluate the conditions of the using ecological and energy efficient approaches to providing innovative development of the transport system in cities. Results. The article investigates the international experience of reforming the transport system on the basis of municipal ecology and development of «smart» cities. In the context of the using ecological and energy efficient approaches to reforming municipal transport logistics, public transport, the topical issue is the development of algorithms for implementing the Internet of things and artificial intelligence into the transport system. The priority directions of innovative development of municipal transport logistics in Ukraine are the digitization of processes of traffic management, diversification of ecological and energy efficient types of transport, forming partnerships between energy service companies and transport service providers. The article evaluates the conditions of the using ecological and energy efficient approaches to providing innovative development of the transport system in cities. This process is aimed at optimization of the usage of ecological types of transport, highlighting common priorities of the transport logistics development. The modeling of relationship between the usage of ecological types of transport and the level of emissions of harmful substances into the atmosphere is considered. For the purpose of innovative development of municipal transport logistics on the principles of municipal ecology and energy efficiency, the improvement of bicycle infrastructure in cities, the development of partnerships between energy service companies and public transport service providers are proposed. Discussion. The prospect of further research is to develop a model for optimizing the management of ecological and energy efficient transport in cities, developing partnerships between energy service companies and public transport service providers.

Robust Risk Management of Retail Energy Service Providers in Midterm Electricity Energy Markets under Unstructured Uncertainty

2017 ◽  
Vol 143 (5) ◽  
pp. 04017030 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jamshid Aghaei ◽  
Mansour Charwand ◽  
Mohsen Gitizadeh ◽  
Alireza Heidari
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Energy Markets ◽  
Energy Service
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