The Economic Geography of Financing Clean Energy Technologies

2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Knight
Keyword(s):  
Capital Flows ◽  
Clean Energy ◽  
Physical Geography ◽  
Renewable Energy Technologies ◽  
Energy Technologies ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Financing Gap ◽  
Energy Products ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Valley Of Death

This article seeks to describe the geography of clean tech investment which has emerged in recent years in the USA and the UK. An empirical approach was used, relying on close-dialogue interviews with senior investment managers in both markets. The article draws three conclusions. First, clean tech investment is often strongly influenced by physical geography, particularly in the area of renewable energy technologies. Second, regulatory settings play a strong role in the flow of investment. Third, capital flows unevenly between the different stages of technological maturity in clean energy products — a phenomenon which has been described as the ‘valley of death’ financing gap.

scholarly journals Imagined publics and engagement around renewable energy technologies in the UK

2010 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Barnett ◽  
Kate Burningham ◽  
Gordon Walker ◽  
Noel Cass
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Renewable Energy Technologies ◽  
Energy Technologies ◽  
The Uk

scholarly journals RENEWABLE ENERGY FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN MIDDLE EAST

2021 ◽  
pp. 70-80
Author(s):  
O. A. Pryiatelchuk ◽  
◽  
Sara Amirabbas ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Fossil Fuel ◽  
Renewable Energy Sources ◽  
Clean Energy ◽  
Energy Access ◽  
Energy Policies ◽  
Renewable Energy Technologies ◽  
Energy Technologies ◽  
Rich Countries

Improving energy efficiency is one of the main ways to reduce energy pollution that leads to economic development, increasing energy access and better life. That can result in reducing fossil fuel use and growing clean energy supplies. The Gulf countries have as many renewable resources as hydrocarbons like sunshine, considerable wind resources, and geothermal. The economy of the Middle east deeplydepends on fossil fuel export. Declining fossil fuel supplies and rising energy prices are driving global energy supplies to renewables energies. Although the Middle East region, due to its special geographical features, has significant potential for the growth of renewable energy sources, they have not been developed yet. It overviews the energy situation and sustainability, economic potential of renewable energy, policies for energy systems over the recent decades in six resource-rich countries in the middle east. In addition, along with renewable energy technologies, possible ways to solve current environmental problems are recognized. The methodology of this work is PESTLE analysis of these countries' energy status to develop a long-term mechanism for sustainable and secure energy for the Middle East based on Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Legal, Environmental. Also, it identifies challenges that restrict the development of renewable energy technologies in the Middle East. By analyzing the status of energy in recent decades, the importance of implementation of effective energy policies to develop sustainable energy can be realized. Key words: energy source, sustainable future, renewable, effective policy, resource-rich countries.

scholarly journals Reconciling Biodiversity Conservation and Widespread Deployment of Renewable Energy Technologies in the UK

PLoS ONE ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. e0150956 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benedict Gove ◽  
Leah J. Williams ◽  
Alison E. Beresford ◽  
Philippa Roddis ◽  
Colin Campbell ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Biodiversity Conservation ◽  
Renewable Energy Technologies ◽  
Energy Technologies ◽  
The Uk

scholarly journals Unlocking Opportunities in Renewable Energy Technologies in Africa: The Role of Development Financial Institutions

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-110
Author(s):  
Oluwaseun Viyon Ojo
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Financial Institutions ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
Clean Energy ◽  
Global Energy ◽  
Renewable Energy Technologies ◽  
Energy Technologies ◽  
The Impact

Climate change and global warming are undeniably undermining global development with developing or emerging economies being the worse hit in this unfortunate development. In recent times, it has become necessary to adopt effective adaptation measures that mitigate the impact of climate change on the social, political, and economic environment. A global shift to low-carbon energy technologies through the gradual integration of renewable energy resources in the global energy mix has been generally proposed. Whilst legal and regulatory initiatives are indeed crucial in driving this global energy transition, it is equally imperative that the necessary capital is unlocked to finance the construction, development, and expansion of renewable energy projects in Africa. This paper focused on examining the impact of renewable energy technologies on climate change mitigation, and analysed the role of Development Financial Institutions (DFIs) in unlocking the vast opportunities associated with renewable energy technologies or projects, with a view to driving the clean energy transition in Africa.

scholarly journals Powering community electrical loads in Cameroon using off-grid hybrid energy systems

2019 ◽  
pp. 20-48
Author(s):  
Dan Nchelatebe Nkwetta
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Energy Systems ◽  
Clean Energy ◽  
Electric Grid ◽  
Hybrid Energy ◽  
Renewable Energy Technologies ◽  
Energy Technologies ◽  
Increasing Demand ◽  
Electrical Loads

The millions of users in developing countries often live far off the electric grid (rural areas) which seems not very cost effective extending the national grid to these rural areas as per respective governments. Africa’s total primary energy supply has seen an increasing annual rate of about 3%, seeming to be the highest among all other continents. The African continent as a whole is endowed with large renewable energy potential, varying in type across diverse geographic locations. These resources, and the settings in which they exist, can point to country or regional specific renewable energy solutions to fit each nation’s strengths and needs. In Sub-Saharan Africa, reliable access to electric power must be consider a basic precondition to improve people’s lives as it further promote education, health care and economic growth via the creation of sustainable and clean energy jobs. Until recently, renewable energy technologies (RETs) have been confronted with a huge up-front cost and technologies in development but massive and global deployment of renewable energy systems has led to significant cost reductions and performance improvements and the hope is to see increasing uptake of RETs by African countries. Cameroon a Central African country is heavily reliant on hydropower, which contributes an estimated 60% to the country’s total installed 1,400MW capacity in 2015. In addition, there is constants power failure due to the non-reliability of the electric grid and load shedding to meet increasing demand. However, climate change poses additional huge risk (large reservoirs and dams drying up) and to meet the increasing demand, Cameroon is being forced to seek alternative power sources. This paper proposes the need for a sustainable hybrid energy system design and the development of an effective design, simulation and analysis approach of stand-alone off-grid in Cameroon as a potential optimal solution to help power community electrical loads. Finding an optimized mix of renewable energy technologies for Bandjoun and Muyuka were the goals of this paper.

scholarly journals Through the Eye of a Needle: An Eco-Heterodox Perspective on the Renewable Energy Transition

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (15) ◽  
pp. 4508
Author(s):  
Megan K. Seibert ◽  
William E. Rees
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
Clean Energy ◽  
Renewable Energy Technologies ◽  
Energy Technologies ◽  
Pass Through ◽  
Climate Crisis ◽  
Alternative Solutions ◽  
Extreme State ◽  
Human Enterprise

We add to the emerging body of literature highlighting cracks in the foundation of the mainstream energy transition narrative. We offer a tripartite analysis that re-characterizes the climate crisis within its broader context of ecological overshoot, highlights numerous collectively fatal problems with so-called renewable energy technologies, and suggests alternative solutions that entail a contraction of the human enterprise. This analysis makes clear that the pat notion of “affordable clean energy” views the world through a narrow keyhole that is blind to innumerable economic, ecological, and social costs. These undesirable “externalities” can no longer be ignored. To achieve sustainability and salvage civilization, society must embark on a planned, cooperative descent from an extreme state of overshoot in just a decade or two. While it might be easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for global society to succeed in this endeavor, history is replete with stellar achievements that have arisen only from a dogged pursuit of the seemingly impossible.

The Development of Wind Power in Denmark and The Uk

1998 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 279-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Brunt ◽  
Derek Spooner
Keyword(s):  
Wind Power ◽  
Local Level ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Power Development ◽  
Renewable Energy Technologies ◽  
Energy Technologies ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Wind Power Development ◽  
Turbine Installation ◽  
Wind Resources

Renewable energy technologies are attracting increasing support in the European Union, with wind power particularly favoured. The growth of wind power capacity has proceeded at variable rates in different countries. This paper focuses upon the contrasting experiences of two countries both blessed with abundunt wind resources: Denmark, a leader both in wind turbine installation and manufacture, and the UK, where development has been slow until the 1990's. The recent energy histories of the two countries are explored as the context for wind power development. Denmarks success has been based on a combination of local and co-operative ownership with government encouragement and support, whereas the UK, despite the impetus provided by the Non-Fossil Fuel Obligation since 1989, has largely failed to ensure the involvement of people at the local level.

Integration and Disintegration: Trade and Labor Market Integration

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 391-412
Author(s):  
Margaret E Peters
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Capital Flows ◽  
Market Integration ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
World War ◽  
Labor Market Integration ◽  
Business Support ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Right

Abstract After World War II, the victors—the USA and the UK—created a liberal international order (LIO) based on integrating markets for goods and capital but not labor. The decision to remove barriers to trade in goods and capital flows have had profound effects on immigration. Trade has meant the closure of businesses in developed countries that rely on low-skill labor. When these firms closed, they took their support for low-skill immigration with them. The ability of capital to move intensified this trend: whereas once firms needed to bring labor to their capital, they can now take their capital to labor. Once these firms move, they have little incentive to fight for immigration at home. Finally, increased productivity, as both a product of and response to globalization, has meant that firms can do more with fewer workers, again decreasing demands for immigration. Together, these changes have led to less business support for immigration, allowing politicians to move to the right on immigration and pass restrictions to appease anti-immigration forces. The recent backlash to the LIO, then, has implicated the very flow—the movement of labor—that was never part of it.

Small-Scale Nuclear Energy

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Liam Darby ◽  
Amanda Hansson ◽  
Clement Tisdell
Keyword(s):  
Power Generation ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Energy Demand ◽  
Nuclear Energy ◽  
Clean Energy ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Renewable Energy Technologies ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Energy Company ◽  
Energy Technologies

Ensuring an ongoing supply of power in a low carbon economy is one of the major national and international challenges that almost every country faces. Investments in alternative and renewable energy technologies have risen steadily over the last decade, particularly since the ratification of the 2030 Paris Agreement. Although reasonable progress has been made as a result of this, even the most developed renewable energy technologies, for example, solar, wind and hydro, cannot satisfy the rapidly growing energy demand of the world. Arguably a non-renewable energy source, nuclear energy may be one clean energy answer for the future. More specifically, small-scale nuclear energy holds considerable potential. Such potential exists in the form of light water small modular reactors (LW-SMRs). These SMRs have the capability to meet the energy independence and the energy security needs of many countries while reducing capital and operating expenditure and environmental and physical footprint. The modularity aspect of this technology allows for varied application, from large towns to rural regions that currently rely on individual generators. It also creates the opportunity of cogeneration with already existing conventional power generation technology to diversify power generation and increase grid stability. LW-SMRs are not a new idea; in fact, they have been used to power U.S. aircraft carriers and submarines for almost 60 years. This case study will address the advantages and disadvantages of the LW-SMR, using the market leader NuScale as an example. NuScale in Oregon, United States, is arguably the most experienced and influential LW-SMR nuclear energy company when it comes to the factory fabrication of LW-SMRs.

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