The oil-based technology and economy: Prospects for the future

Dr Ilium, with degrees in Civil Engineering from the Technical University of Denmark and in Energy Systems and Energy Planning from Aalborg University, has had his own consulting company, ECOConsult, since 2000. He was from 1962 for over a decade mainly occupied with the development of educational programs in computerscience alongside with studies in systems theory and cybernetics at the Danish Academy of Engineering in Copenhagen and Aalborg.Thereafter, as senior Associate Professor (Docent) at the Department of Development and Planning, Aalborg University, he was mainly engaged in the development of methods and computer models for the technological, environmental and economic analysis of alternative scenarios for the development of energy systems and agricultural production systems. He has also been engaged in studies of environmental policies and problems in Central and Eastern European countries, in particular in energy planning in Czechoslovakia/the Czech Republic, and was Programme Manager for the Nordic Training Programme for Energy Experts in the Baltic States, the PROCEED programme. In addition, Dr Ilium has developed comprehensive computer models for: numerical analysis of thermodynamic systems (power plants, cogeneration plants, integrated industrial processes,etc.); energy planning on the national, regional and local energy system level; technological/socio-economic energy systems analysis; economic assessment of alternative energy system projects; flow analysis (nutrients and energy) and economic analysis of agricultural systems. He has developed the Sustainable Energy Systems Analysis Model (SESAM), an advanced, general computer model for the analysis of scenarios for the future development of national, regional or local energy systems which has been used and is presently being used for the integrated technological, environmental, and economic analysis of present and future energy systems infrastructures in Denmark, the Czech Republic, Poland, and Germany.

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Introducing the Open Energy Ontology: Enhancing Data Interpretation and Interfacing in Energy Systems Analysis

Energy and AI ◽

10.1016/j.egyai.2021.100074 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 100074

Author(s):

Meisam Booshehri ◽

Lukas Emele ◽

Simon Flügel ◽

Hannah Förster ◽

Johannes Frey ◽

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Keyword(s):

Systems Analysis ◽

Energy Systems ◽

Data Interpretation ◽

Energy Systems Analysis

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Environmental impacts of smart local energy systems

10.5194/egusphere-egu21-900 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Samuel Robinson ◽

Alona Armstrong

Keyword(s):

Ecosystem Services ◽

Environmental Impacts ◽

Natural Capital ◽

Critical Evaluation ◽

Energy Systems ◽

Energy System ◽

Simulation Modelling ◽

Local Energy ◽

Energy Technologies ◽

Degraded Ecosystems

<p>Energy systems around the world are rapidly transitioning towards decentralised and digitalised systems as countries aim to decarbonise their economies. However, broader environmental effects of the upscaling of these smart local energy systems (SLES) beyond reducing carbon emissions remain unclear. Land-use change associated with increased deployment of renewables, new infrastructures required for energy distribution and storage, and resource extraction for emerging energy technologies may have significant environmental impacts, including consequences for ecosystems within and beyond energy system project localities. This has major implications for biodiversity, natural capital stocks and provision of ecosystem services, the importance of which are increasingly recognised in development policy at local to international scales. This study assessed current understanding of the broader environmental impacts and potential co-benefits of SLES through a global Rapid Evidence Assessment of peer-reviewed academic literature, with a critical evaluation and synthesis of existing knowledge of effects of SLES on biodiversity, natural capital and ecosystem services. There was a striking overall lack of evidence of the environmental impacts of SLES. The vast majority of studies identified considered only energy technology CO<sub>2</sub> emissions through simulation modelling; almost no studies made explicit reference to effects on ecosystems. This highlights an urgent need to improve whole system understanding of environmental impacts of SLES, crucial to avoid unintended ecosystem degradation as a result of climate change mitigation. This will also help to identify potential techno-ecological synergies and opportunities for improvement of degraded ecosystems alongside reaching decarbonisation goals.</p>

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Power systems (review of "Electric Energy Systems--Analysis and Operation" by Gomez-Exposito, A. et al; 2008) [Book reviews]

IEEE Power and Energy Magazine ◽

10.1109/mpe.2009.933740 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 7 (5) ◽

pp. 74-76

Author(s):

Vijay Vittal

Keyword(s):

Power Systems ◽

Systems Analysis ◽

Electric Energy ◽

Energy Systems ◽

Energy Systems Analysis

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Energy Systems Analysis for Developing Countries

10.1007/978-3-642-48337-0 ◽

1984 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Peter Meier

Keyword(s):

Developing Countries ◽

Systems Analysis ◽

Energy Systems ◽

Energy Systems Analysis

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Economic analysis of forest joint-stock companies in the CzechRepublic in 1992–2000

Journal of Forest Science ◽

10.17221/4675-jfs ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 49 (No. 1) ◽

pp. 27-36 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

V. Kupčák

Keyword(s):

Czech Republic ◽

Economic Analysis ◽

Economic Reform ◽

Basic Principle ◽

State Enterprise ◽

The Czech Republic ◽

Exact Evaluation ◽

Competition Environment

The basic principle of the economic reform of state forests of the CzechRepublic after 1990 was to separate management in forests from the implementation of production activities. A state enterprise Forests of the Czech Republic with its headquarters in Hradec Králové was charged to manage state forests. From the former 7 enterprises of state forests 78 joint-stock companies have been established that carry out silvicultural and logging activities in state forests and in forests of other owners under the conditions of competition environment and on the basis of contracts. The paper deals with the exact evaluation of partial and present results of the development of forestry economic reform, aimed at the study of the behaviour of transformed and privatised forest joint-stock companies.

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Energy Security

Environmental Science ◽

10.1093/obo/9780199363445-0021 ◽

2015 ◽

Author(s):

Aleh Cherp ◽

Farhad Mukhtarov

Keyword(s):

Systems Analysis ◽

Energy Security ◽

National Level ◽

Energy Systems ◽

Military Studies ◽

Socially Constructed ◽

Energy Systems Analysis ◽

The Stability ◽

Objective Property ◽

Security Science

Energy security is a multidisciplinary field which overlaps with engineering and energy systems analysis, earth sciences, economics, technology studies, political science, international relations, and security and military studies. Though discussions of energy security have been around for most of the 20th century, a systematic “energy security science” has emerged only recently and is still a young and dynamic field. The structure and the borders of the area are widely debated and contested. Contemporary debates on energy security include dilemmas such as whether energy security is a “socially constructed concept” or an objective property of energy systems, whether it is primarily a national-level issue or whether it also exists at different scales (household, local, regional, and global), whether it relates only to conventional or also to “human security,” whether it is a generic or context-dependent idea, and how it relates to other energy policy issues (e.g., environmental and social impacts). The key outcomes of this debate include the idea that energy security relates to both shocks and stresses, includes both physical and economic aspects, and relates to the “vital energy systems” which underpin the stability and functioning of societies.

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Adjustment of the Life Cycle Inventory in Life Cycle Assessment for the Flexible Integration into Energy Systems Analysis

Energies ◽

10.3390/en13174437 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 13 (17) ◽

pp. 4437

Author(s):

Thomas Betten ◽

Shivenes Shammugam ◽

Roberta Graf

Keyword(s):

Life Cycle Assessment ◽

Life Cycle ◽

Systems Analysis ◽

Energy Systems ◽

Use Case ◽

Double Counting ◽

Energy Technologies ◽

Theoretical Approaches ◽

Energy Systems Analysis ◽

The Difference

With an increasing share of renewable energy technologies in our energy systems, the integration of not only direct emission (from the use phase), but also the total life cycle emissions (including emissions during resource extraction, production, etc.) becomes more important in order to draw meaningful conclusions from Energy Systems Analysis (ESA). While the benefit of integrating Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) into ESA is acknowledged, methodologically sound integration lacks resonance in practice, partly because the dimension of the implications is not yet fully understood. This study proposes an easy-to-implement procedure for the integration of LCA results in ESA based on existing theoretical approaches. The need for a methodologically sound integration, including the avoidance of double counting of emissions, is demonstrated on the use case of Passivated Emitter and Rear Cell photovoltaic technology. The difference in Global Warming Potential of 19% between direct and LCA based emissions shows the significance for the integration of the total emissions into energy systems analysis and the potential double counting of 75% of the life cycle emissions for the use case supports the need for avoidance of double counting.

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