scholarly journals Engaging the public for citizen energy production in Norway

2022 ◽  
pp. 135-154
Author(s):  
Karina Standal ◽  
Mariëlle Feenstra
Keyword(s):  
Energy Production ◽  
The Public

USSR Energy Development: A Critical Overview

1989 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 426-442
Author(s):  
Kamil I. Mangushev
Keyword(s):  
Energy Production ◽  
Great Difficulty ◽  
Energy Sector ◽  
Energy Development ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Energy Industry ◽  
The Public ◽  
Modern Level ◽  
Save Energy ◽  
Critical Overview

The Soviet energy industry has been transformed, with great difficulty, from a complete ruin to its present, modern level. Today some difficulties remain: natural and economic conditions of energy production have drastically changed for the worse, while the demand for energy in the economy has grown. The energy sector is faced with rising environmental expectations from the public. The major problem is to increase the effectiveness of energy utilisation, and save energy.

scholarly journals Impact of Brownfield Sites on Local Energy Production as Resilient Response to Land Contamination: A Case Study in Italy

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 2328
Author(s):  
Umberto Mecca ◽  
Paolo Piantanida ◽  
Francesco Prizzon ◽  
Manuela Rebaudengo
Keyword(s):  
Energy Production ◽  
Complex Case ◽  
Production Sector ◽  
The Public ◽  
Energy Needs ◽  
Ground Modification ◽  
Building Components ◽  
Empty Containers ◽  
Resilient Response

The decentralization of the production sector crisis following industries in the suburbs have generated a multitude of empty containers in the medium-large Italian cities, which are abandoned, unsafe, and often dangerous for the community. From this arises the need to recover them and transform them into something else. This is not always possible or interesting for the subjects involved in the transformation. When the abandoned space is (even if only partially) polluted, then any hypothesis of transformation is stopped due to the high impact of decontamination costs, which greatly compromise the profitability of the investment. This paper deals with this issue focusing on a complex case study involving the abandoned area and the buildings of a former paint mill in the center of a typical city in the Turin metropolitan area. The suggested hypothesis is to act only on building components and external areas without any ground modification because of its contamination. Moreover, the new planned use (energy production from renewable sources to supply part of the public administration’s needs) does not foresee neither a stable presence of people nor a further consumption of land. The technical analysis of community energy needs and the subsequent economic and financial study lead to a financial sustainability over a period of about 25 years.

scholarly journals Cogeneration and Multiple Heat Recovery at a Plastics Manufacturing Facility

1984 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Davidse ◽  
A. P. van Ooststroom
Keyword(s):  
Control System ◽  
Heat Recovery ◽  
Energy Production ◽  
Cogeneration Plant ◽  
Manufacturing Facility ◽  
The Public ◽  
Medium Pressure ◽  
Pressure Steam ◽  
Thermal Oil

This paper describes the process of the integration of a cogeneration plant in a plastics manufacturing complex, which is being expanded. It presents the background against which the decision to proceed was made, the alternatives considered, and some of the techniques utilized to obtain management approval. It also describes the specific aspects of the cogeneration facility, fuels, heat recovery systems for thermal oil and medium pressure steam, the balancing between energy production and utilization in the complex and the control system for the optimization of the facility. Also some energy typical aspects of connecting the generator to the public grid will be addressed.

scholarly journals The Ethical climate at Workplace Environment and its Impact on Job InsecurityApplied Study for the Public Energy Production Management Office at Al- Furat Al- Awsat Region: المناخ الأخلاقي في بيئة العمل وأثره على عدم الأمان الوظيفيدراسة تطبيقية على المديرية العامة لإنتاج الطاقة الكهربائية/ الفرات الأوسط/ العاملين بالعقود

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yamama Mudhher Azawi Al- salami
Keyword(s):  
Energy Production ◽  
Ethical Climate ◽  
Production Management ◽  
Job Insecurity ◽  
Climate Impacts ◽  
Workplace Environment ◽  
Performance Effectiveness ◽  
The Public ◽  
Contract Workers ◽  
Moral Atmosphere

The ethical climate impacts the workers’ behavior and the performance effectiveness. It establishes the values that dominate the woke environment. The research aims to identify the importance of the moral atmosphere which dominates the public energy production management office at Al- Furat Al- Awsat Region for under contract workers. The research measures the job insecurity which could be affected by this atmosphere. The results of this research proofed that the moral atmosphere has a major impact on job insecurity workers’ feelings at both the quantitive and the qualitative on an unequal rate.

scholarly journals Determinants of Decarbonisation in the Transformation of the Energy Sector: The Case of Poland

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 1217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Magdalena Wójcik-Jurkiewicz ◽  
Marzena Czarnecka ◽  
Grzegorz Kinelski ◽  
Beata Sadowska ◽  
Katarzyna Bilińska-Reformat
Keyword(s):  
Energy Production ◽  
Social Acceptance ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Energy Sector ◽  
Electricity Production ◽  
Energy Market ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Policy Challenge

This paper aims to identify the determinants of the decarbonisation processes in Poland within the scope of energy transformation. The purpose of the study is to identify how the public perceives decarbonisation determinants in order to develop a sustainable energy strategy for Poland. The transition of the energy market to low-carbon technology is a policy challenge. Governments must implement policies that are environmentally friendly, cost-effective, but, most of all, socially acceptable. Social acceptance risk plays a significant role in Poland, influencing the decarbonisation process. In Poland’s case, the coal share is decreasing, but it is still the most important fuel for electricity production. This process of decarbonisation is a fundamental influence on the transformation of the energy sector in Poland. The social perception of solutions that can be applied was examined. The Polish natural environment is poisoned. Poles suffer from diseases related to the burning of coal for energy production. Societal awareness, how people perceive the government’s actions, and what they expect in this regard is crucial.

scholarly journals Energy Blockchain for Public Energy Communities

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 3457
Author(s):  
Marco Galici ◽  
Mario Mureddu ◽  
Emilio Ghiani ◽  
Gianni Celli ◽  
Fabrizio Pilo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Production ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Third Parties ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Public Buildings ◽  
Smart Meters ◽  
The Public ◽  
Energy Footprint ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Economic Analyses

This paper suggests an application of blockchain as an energy open data ledger, designed to save and track data regarding the energy footprint of public buildings and public energy communities. The developed platform permits writing energy production and consumption of public buildings using blockchain-enabled smart meters. Once authenticated on the blockchain, this data can be made available to the public domain for techno-economic analyses for either research studies and internal or third parties audits, increasing, in this way, the perceived transparency of the public institutions. A further feature of the platform, starting on the previously disclosed raw data, allows calculating, validating, and sharing sustainability indicators of public buildings and facilities, allowing the tracking of their improvements in sustainability goals. The paper also provides the preliminary results of a field-test experimentation of the proposed platform on a group of public buildings, highlighting the possible benefits of its widespread exploitation.

Replications can cause distorted belief in scientific progress

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michał Białek
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Scientific Progress ◽  
The Public ◽  
Psychological Science

AbstractIf we want psychological science to have a meaningful real-world impact, it has to be trusted by the public. Scientific progress is noisy; accordingly, replications sometimes fail even for true findings. We need to communicate the acceptability of uncertainty to the public and our peers, to prevent psychology from being perceived as having nothing to say about reality.

Mitochondrial matrix calcium ions regulate energy production in myocardium: A cytochemical study

1990 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 166-167
Author(s):  
W.A. Jacob ◽  
R. Hertsens ◽  
A. Van Bogaert ◽  
M. De Smet
Keyword(s):  
Energy Metabolism ◽  
Calcium Ions ◽  
Energy Production ◽  
Regulation Of Respiration ◽  
Free Calcium ◽  
Mitochondrial Matrix ◽  
Cytochemical Study ◽  
Nmr Techniques

In the past most studies of the control of energy metabolism focus on the role of the phosphorylation potential ATP/ADP.Pi on the regulation of respiration. Studies using NMR techniques have demonstrated that the concentrations of these compounds for oxidation phosphorylation do not change appreciably throughout the cardiac cycle and during increases in cardiac work. Hence regulation of energy production by calcium ions, present in the mitochondrial matrix, has been the object of a number of recent studies.Three exclusively intramitochondnal dehydrogenases are key enzymes for the regulation of oxidative metabolism. They are activated by calcium ions in the low micromolar range. Since, however, earlier estimates of the intramitochondnal calcium, based on equilibrium thermodynamic considerations, were in the millimolar range, a physiological correlation was not evident. The introduction of calcium-sensitive probes fura-2 and indo-1 made monitoring of free calcium during changing energy metabolism possible. These studies were performed on isolated mitochondria and extrapolation to the in vivo situation is more or less speculative.

Hospitals: N.Y. Appellate Court Denies Move to Privatize Public Hospital

1999 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-203
Author(s):  
Robert Chatham
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Public Health System ◽  
Municipal Hospital ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Benefit ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Benefit Corporation ◽  
The City

The Court of Appeals of New York held, in Council of the City of New York u. Giuliani, slip op. 02634, 1999 WL 179257 (N.Y. Mar. 30, 1999), that New York City may not privatize a public city hospital without state statutory authorization. The court found invalid a sublease of a municipal hospital operated by a public benefit corporation to a private, for-profit entity. The court reasoned that the controlling statute prescribed the operation of a municipal hospital as a government function that must be fulfilled by the public benefit corporation as long as it exists, and nothing short of legislative action could put an end to the corporation's existence.In 1969, the New York State legislature enacted the Health and Hospitals Corporation Act (HHCA), establishing the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) as an attempt to improve the New York City public health system. Thirty years later, on a renewed perception that the public health system was once again lacking, the city administration approved a sublease of Coney Island Hospital from HHC to PHS New York, Inc. (PHS), a private, for-profit entity.

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