scholarly journals irena and iea: Moving Together Towards a Sustainable Energy Future—Competition or Collaboration?

Climate Law ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 233-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Federico Esu ◽  
Francesco Sindico
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Sustainable Energy ◽  
International Energy Agency ◽  
Sustainable Use ◽  
Clean Energy ◽  
Energy Agency ◽  
Member States ◽  
Legal Perspective ◽  
Oil Crisis ◽  
The Relationship

The aim of this article is to critically examine, from a legal perspective, the relationship between the International Energy Agency (iea) and the International Renewable Energy Agency (irena). The iea was established in 1973 in response to the global oil crisis. It currently has 29 member states. Its original mandate has been expanded to include ensuring reliable, affordable, and clean energy. irena was established in 2009. Its main objective is to promote sustainable use of all forms of renewable energy. With 138 member states, and many more in the process of accession, irena is becoming a truly universal organization. Both the iea and irena focus their attention on sustainable energy. Is there an institutional overlap or an unnecessary duplication in scope? Are irena’s activities in sustainable energy, which seemingly parallel those of the iea, justified by its aims and global reach? By addressing these and related questions, the article discusses whether the relationship between the iea and irena can be seen as competition or collaboration. The relationship is analysed within the context of the un Sustainable Energy for All Initiative.

International Law and the Renewable Energy Sector

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslie Parker
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
International Energy Agency ◽  
Energy Regulation ◽  
Renewable Energy Policy ◽  
Energy Agency ◽  
Climate Change Negotiations ◽  
Energy Charter Treaty ◽  
Development And Utilization ◽  
International Climate

This chapter examines key legal instruments and mechanisms relevant to international renewable energy regulation. These play an important role in governing unified action and enhancing collaboration and information-sharing on effective policies and investment frameworks aimed at reducing barriers and risks to investments in renewable energy. The mechanisms that are analysed are the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) Statute, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Kyoto Protocol and related international climate change negotiations and declarations, the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT), and various sector-specific treaties. The chapter also turns its attention to the primary international organizations that influence present and future directions in international renewable energy policy, such as the Nairobi Programme of Action for the Development and Utilization of New and Renewable Sources of Energy, International Energy Agency, Development Banks, and the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership.

scholarly journals Communicating Renewable Energy in the National Action Plans of the Member States of the European Union

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 970
Author(s):  
András Vincze ◽  
Nóra Hegedűsné Baranyai ◽  
Henrik Zsiborács ◽  
Szilvia Csányi ◽  
István Háber ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Power Distance ◽  
Information Provision ◽  
Action Plans ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Member States ◽  
Higher Power ◽  
Developmental Characteristics ◽  
The Relationship

For implementing renewable energy policies it is necessary to convince the population of the appropriateness and usefulness of the ideas. The information provision needed for that requires the communication to be accessible and understandable to the target audience. This research examined the national renewable energy action plans of the member states of the European Union. The online accessibility of these documents and their readability were examined using a simple accessibility test and the Flesch and Flesch–Kincaid readability tests. The paper also addresses the relationship between the culturally-determined power distance indices and the economic and developmental characteristics of the countries and the readability values of their samples. The results showed that the examined documents could be easily accessed, but the action plans of all the member states were difficult to read. The emerging pattern suggested that the text samples of the countries with higher power distances were harder to interpret. Nevertheless, no significant relationship was detected by the correlation analyses between the power distance indices and the Flesch and Flesch–Kincaid readability scores, while strong relationships were detected between the Human Development Index (HDI) data and the results of both readability tests in the group of countries with the highest power distance values.

Challenges and Strategies for Universal Access to Energy

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Onkar Singh
Keyword(s):  
Universal Access ◽  
Sustainable Energy ◽  
International Energy Agency ◽  
Energy Availability ◽  
Stone Age ◽  
Energy Access ◽  
Energy Sustainability ◽  
Energy Agency ◽  
Critical Requirement ◽  
Roll Back

Energy sustainability is a major challenge for today's development. The energy availability and the universal access of energy is essentially required for sustaining the civilization else humanity will roll back to stone age. As per the recent reports the estimate by International Energy Agency which says that around 1.3 billion people lack access to electricity and 2.7 billion people lack clean cooking facilities. These deficiencies can be met by the two pronged strategy of enhancing energy availability and facilitation of universal energy access. The sustainable energy can bridge the gap for critical requirement of eliminating poverty, reducing gap between rich and poor along with minimizing adverse impact on climate. In this paper an effort is made as to how to identify the area and make sustainable energy for future development.

scholarly journals The Sustainable City: Advances in Renewable Energy and Energy Saving Systems

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (24) ◽  
pp. 8382
Author(s):  
Alberto-Jesus Perea-Moreno ◽  
Quetzalcoatl Hernandez-Escobedo
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Energy Saving ◽  
International Energy Agency ◽  
Sustainable City ◽  
Energy Agency ◽  
Energy Flows ◽  
New Energy ◽  
Exhaustive Study ◽  
Global Energy Consumption

According to United Nations data, half of the world’s population lives in cities and forecasts indicate that by the middle of the 21st century, this percentage will have increased to 65%. The increase in the urban population favors the creation of a network of interactions that entails a series of material and energy flows. These cause environmental impacts that affect the quality of life of citizens and the environment as a whole. According to data from the International Energy Agency, cities occupy 3% of the planet’s surface and are responsible for 67% of global energy consumption. The effects caused by this consumption, as well as its impact on the depletion of resources, make it necessary to carry out an exhaustive study of renewable energies and new energy saving systems. This Special Issue aims to present new advances and developments in renewable energy and energy saving systems that allow cities to evolve in a sustainable way.

scholarly journals Least Squares Monte Carlo Simulation-Based Decision-Making Method for Photovoltaic Investment in Korea

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (19) ◽  
pp. 10613
Author(s):  
Jungmin An ◽  
Dong-Kwan Kim ◽  
Jinyeong Lee ◽  
Sung-Kwan Joo
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Monte Carlo ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Least Squares ◽  
Sustainable Energy ◽  
Clean Energy ◽  
Optimal Investment ◽  
Investment Timing ◽  
Least Squares Monte Carlo ◽  
The Impact

Solar power for clean energy is an important asset that will drive the future of sustainable energy generation. As interest in sustainable energy increases with Korea’s renewable energy expansion plan, a strategy for photovoltaic investment (PV) is important from an investor’s point of view. Previous research primarily focused on assessing and analyzing the impact of the volatility but paid little attention to the modeling decision-making project to obtain the optimal investment timing. This paper utilizes a Least Squares Monte Carlo-based method for determining the timing of PV plant investment. The proposed PV decision-making method is designed to simulate the total PV generation revenue period with all uncertain PV price factors handled before determining the optimal investment time. The numerical studies with nine different scenarios considering system marginal price (SMP) and renewable energy certificate (REC) spot market price in Korea demonstrated how to determine the optimal investment time for different PV capacities. Therefore, the proposed method can be used as a decision-making tool to provide PV investors with information on the best time to invest in the renewable energy market.

Repositioning gas in the power generation mix

2018 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 647
Author(s):  
Martin Wilkes
Keyword(s):  
Power Generation ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Energy Demand ◽  
International Energy Agency ◽  
Potential Range ◽  
Energy Agency ◽  
Energy Needs ◽  
World Energy ◽  
The One ◽  
The Impact

Since the turn of the century, gas has been highlighted as the transition fuel to a lower emissions world, and, in 2011, the International Energy Agency published a special report entitled ‘Are we entering the golden age of gas’, which indicated that gas use could rise by over 50% to provide more than 25% of world energy demand by 2035. Even though gas use has risen in tandem with the increase in renewable energy, over the past decade, coal has been the fastest growing fuel because developing countries choose cheap power to provide their growing energy needs. Gas has been, and continues to be, subject to a green, cheap squeeze; squeezed by cleaner renewables on the one hand, and cheaper coal on the other. This paper will look at the impact that increasing amounts of renewable energy has on existing power generation and supply systems, and provide insights into the potential range of outcomes in emission levels, and the need to not only discuss renewable energy target, but to also understand the total energy mix, and the need to reposition gas from a transition fuel to the natural long-term companion of renewables.

THE CHALLENGES FOR THE BIOFUELS SECTOR IN THE CONTEXT OF THE EU CLIMATE AND ENERGY POLICY

2017 ◽  
Vol XIX (2) ◽  
pp. 58-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Piotr Gradziuk ◽  
Błażej Jendrzejewski
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Energy Policy ◽  
International Energy Agency ◽  
Production Capacity ◽  
Energy Agency ◽  
Central Statistical ◽  
Central Statistical Office ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Climate And Energy Policy ◽  
The Eu

The aim of this study was to assessment of the impact of EU climate and energy policy changes on the biofuels sector. The research was carried out on the basis of the reports of the Ministry of Energy, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, the Energy Regulatory Office, the Central Statistical Office of Poland, the EU Commission, the International Renewable Energy Agency and the International Energy Agency. Tabular and descriptive methods were used. Analyzes covered the years 2007-2015 with perspective until 2030. The analyzes show that realization of assumed obligations in relation to the minimum share of renewable energy used by transportation according to the directive 2009/28/WE of 23 February 2017 may be difficult to be achieve within the proposed deadlines. Currently existing advanced biofuel installations are mainly small prototype devices. Commercialization of those installations would pose a number of threats which could make impossible to reach the assumed production capacity.

scholarly journals The functioning and politics of the solar PV technological innovation system in New Zealand: A mixed methods study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Andrew Boyles
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Fossil Fuels ◽  
International Energy Agency ◽  
Innovation System ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Solar Pv ◽  
Energy Agency

<p>As human society nears the middle of the second decade of the 21st century, the cultivation of fossil fuels for energy shows little sign of large scale abatement. The need for large scale, worldwide transitions to more renewable energy is increasingly being emphasised by organisations such as the International Energy Agency. Some countries are leading the way and innovating in energy sources that are much more efficient, create industry, and bring many system benefits- like solar photovoltaic systems (PV).  Despite having insolation similar to, or greater than, many of those countries seeing vast uptake of solar PV, New Zealand is falling behind. New Zealand has policies in place that emphasise new renewable energy technology uptake and innovation; however these are not occurring with solar PV on a large scale. These contradictions underpin the examination in this thesis of the solar PV innovation system.   Using a Technological Innovation System (TIS) framework, this thesis examines the innovation system for solar PV in New Zealand. It identifies the achieved functionality in eight areas (Entrepreneurship, Knowledge Development, Networks, Guidance, Market, Legitimacy, and International Influences), and assesses the overall system’s functioning to identify system weaknesses.  To build a more complete picture of the innovation system, this thesis also examines the political environment that influences the sustainable transition to more solar PV. The key stakeholders, political influences, priorities, preferences, and political dialogue are assessed using a quantitative questionnaire. The results of this political analysis contribute to a robust conclusion on the state and functioning of the solar PV TIS in New Zealand.</p>

scholarly journals The functioning and politics of the solar PV technological innovation system in New Zealand: A mixed methods study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Andrew Boyles
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Fossil Fuels ◽  
International Energy Agency ◽  
Innovation System ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Solar Pv ◽  
Energy Agency

<p>As human society nears the middle of the second decade of the 21st century, the cultivation of fossil fuels for energy shows little sign of large scale abatement. The need for large scale, worldwide transitions to more renewable energy is increasingly being emphasised by organisations such as the International Energy Agency. Some countries are leading the way and innovating in energy sources that are much more efficient, create industry, and bring many system benefits- like solar photovoltaic systems (PV).  Despite having insolation similar to, or greater than, many of those countries seeing vast uptake of solar PV, New Zealand is falling behind. New Zealand has policies in place that emphasise new renewable energy technology uptake and innovation; however these are not occurring with solar PV on a large scale. These contradictions underpin the examination in this thesis of the solar PV innovation system.   Using a Technological Innovation System (TIS) framework, this thesis examines the innovation system for solar PV in New Zealand. It identifies the achieved functionality in eight areas (Entrepreneurship, Knowledge Development, Networks, Guidance, Market, Legitimacy, and International Influences), and assesses the overall system’s functioning to identify system weaknesses.  To build a more complete picture of the innovation system, this thesis also examines the political environment that influences the sustainable transition to more solar PV. The key stakeholders, political influences, priorities, preferences, and political dialogue are assessed using a quantitative questionnaire. The results of this political analysis contribute to a robust conclusion on the state and functioning of the solar PV TIS in New Zealand.</p>

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