Browsing by Subject "Renewable energy"

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    2030 Agenda of sustainable transport: Can current progress lead towards carbon neutrality?
    (Elsevier, 2023-09) Khurshid, Adnan; Khan, Khalid; Cifuentes Faura, Javier; Ciencia Política, Antropología Social y Hacienda Pública; Facultad de Economía y Empresa
    The sustainable development goal of combating climate change highlights the importance of the transportation sector. This study analyzes the impact of eco-innovations in transportation along with traffic-TRF (road, rail, air), infrastructure development, green finances, trade globalization on demand, transport emissions, and greenhouse gas emissions from 1994 to 2020 in EU25 economies. Furthermore, the policy impact of innovation and taxes and renewables are estimated using their interactions. We employed second-generation approaches, PMG-ARDL, Panel Corrected Standard Errors (PCSE) and Granger causality. The results reveal that green transport neutralizes pollutant emissions, and traffic increases emissions by 17.5%, while green taxes limit them to 15.3% and 39.3% in the long and short run. Green taxes are a short-run tool; however, long-run sustainable targets depend on green transport, renewables, and R&D. European economies must revisit their transport and environmental policies, as current progress may not lead toward sustainable transportation.
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    David against Goliath? Challenges and opportunities for energy cooperatives in Southern Europe
    (Elsevier, 2023) Delicado, Ana; Pallarès-Blanch, Marta; García-Marín, Ramón; Valle, Carolina del; Prados, María-José; Geografía
    Unlike in some northern European countries, renewable energy cooperatives in Portugal, Spain and Italy are few and represent a very small share of the energy market. This article aims to understand the social, political, economic and cultural factors that affect the development of renewable energy cooperatives in southern Europe, but also the opportunities and benefits cooperatives offer over other energy providers in the energy transition. It is based on a comparative analysis of four case studies of cooperatives in Portugal, Spain and Italy, relying on document analysis, observation and interviews with cooperative representatives, complemented with legal, policy and statistical data for contextualisation. We ascertain that energy policies have favoured large utility companies and concentrated energy generation, while a lack of civic culture of participation and mistrust of cooperatives have also hindered their development. Furthermore, we show how cooperatives have unique features that make them valuable actors in energy systems: promotion of environmental and social values, local embeddedness, flexibility to diversify activities, ability to mobilise networks of similar organisations and fostering democratic governance and participation.
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    Dynamic connectedness among climate change index, green financial assets and renewable energy markets: Novel evidence from sustainable development perspective
    (Elsevier Ltd, 2023-03-01) Balsalobre Lorente, Daniel; Mohammed, Kamel Si; Cifuentes Faura, Javier; Shahzad, Umer; Ciencia Política, Antropología Social y Hacienda Pública
    This paper investigates the connectedness among the climate change index, green financial assets, renewable energy markets, and geopolitical risk index from June 1, 2012 to June 13, 2022, using Quantile Vector Autoregressive (QVAR) and wavelet coherence (WC). The Total connectedness index (TCI) varies as long as the highest TCI originates in the upper quantile. We also note that the higher TCI decreases after the second wave of COVID-19 and increases during the first 100 days of the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Moreover, the results show that Geopolitical risk (GPR) is a net transmitter of the climate change index during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The green bond and clean energy markets are negatively connected to the GPR at extreme 10 th and 90 th quantiles. The wavelet coherence confirms the QVAR results that the climate change market can be a safe haven against GPR during the Russian invasion. The climate change index, green financial assets, and clean energy are strong influencers in the financial markets and are vital to international peace, reducing geopolitical risk. The study reports a few novel conclusions and implications from a sustainable development perspective.
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    Evaluating the relationship between income inequality, renewable energy and energy poverty in the V4 countries
    (Elsevier, 2024-06-20) Simionescu, Mihaela; Cifuentes Faura, Javier; Ciencia Política, Antropología Social y Hacienda Pública; Facultad de Economía y Empresa
    The European Union has prioritized addressing energy poverty, as outlined in the "Clean Energy for all Europeans Package". The recent international context dominated by the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia war in Ukraine, have exacerbated this issue because of the substantial energy prices growth. Since eradicating energy poverty necessitates long-term policy implementation, the primary objective of this study is to evaluate the impact of income inequality and other economic and social factors (output per capita, renewable energy use) on energy poverty as measured by three indicators (total utility bill arrears, utility bill arrears for households with dependent children, population unable to maintain adequate). The findings based on mean group estimators for the V4 (Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia) countries from 2005 to 2022 suggest that income inequality, proxied by the Gini index, exacerbates energy poverty. However, sustainable economic growth has the potential to alleviate energy poverty. Policy recommendations include reducing income inequality, reforming renewable energy policies, to encourage the development of renewable energy sector and green industries.
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    La Formación Profesional en la familia de Energía y Agua
    (Comunidad Autónoma de la Región de Murcia, Consejería de Educación y Cultura, Servicio de Publicaciones, 2019) Alcaraz Caballero, Antonio José; Carrasco Martínez, Pilar; Montoya Caravaca, Antonio
    La Formación Profesional tiene un papel clave en proporcionar a las personas los conocimientos y las habilidades para insertarse en el mercado laboral y permitirles una carrera exitosa. La evolución tecnológica está demandando nuevas capacitaciones a los trabajadores y está provocando la aparición de nuevos puestos de trabajo. Al mismo tiempo, la lucha contra los efectos del cambio climático requiere un consumo energético, una generación eléctrica y una gestión del agua sostenible. Fomentar la eficiencia energética y las energías renovables es esencial para conseguir estos objetivos. La Formación Profesional preparará a los jóvenes para acceder y participar de manera exitosa y sostenible en este mercado laboral.
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    Life Cycle Analysis with Multi-Criteria Decision Making: A review of approaches for the sustainability evaluation of renewable energy technologies
    (Elsevier, ) Campos-Guzmán, Verónica; García-Cascales, Socorro; Espinosa, Nieves; Urbina, Antonio; Física
    Sustainability is a concept that integrates at least three dimensions: environmental, economic and social. Energy systems are usually evaluated as a key contributor for sustainable development, needing the methodology used for their evaluation to address many indicators, some are quantitative, while others are qualitative. It is therefore a challenge to choose the best methodology to accomplish this task. In this article, a comprehensive literature review has been performed to analyse which tools have been used by the scientific community for the sustainability evaluation of renewable energy systems during the past ten years (2007–2017). The purpose of this work focuses on verifying that the methodological framework integrated by the Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) and Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) combination is the right tool for the sustainability evaluation of renewable energy systems and obtaining a set of sustainable indicators, evaluation methods and the context where they are applied (such energy policies, electrical supply and evaluation of projects). A knowledge database has been built from the scientific experience of 154 cases of sustainability evaluation in renewable energy systems, with special focus on photovoltaic systems. The results of this revision show that LCA and MCDM applied individually do not achieve a comprehensive sustainability evaluation, due to their intrinsic high degree of uncertainty and the different kinds of analysed parameters. The hybrid framework of LCA and MCDM applied in combination appears as the most appropriate approach for this purpose, and specifically the combination of LCA and Analytic Herarchic Process (AHP), the most frequently used by the scientific community, for its simplicity and robustness for sustainable evaluation in energy systems.
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    Políticas y medidas contra la pobreza energética ¿a quién le corresponde?
    (2017-11-01) Raya Diez, Esther; Gómez Pérez, Melchor
    La pobreza energética es una de las múltiples caras de la pobreza. No siempre visible y no suficientemente conocida. Los datos del Consejo Económico y Social son suficientemente contundentes al afirmar que este tipo de pobreza afecta ya a 54 millones de personas en la Unión Europea. España es el cuarto país de la UE con más personas en tal situación, en 2012 se estimaba que ascendía a 7 millones. Y la Organización Mundial de la Salud advierte de los riesgos para la salud de la misma, entre la que se incluyen muertes prematuras o problemas de salud mental entre otros.En el presente trabajo se proponen diferentes medidas de actuación orientadas a la reducción de la pobreza energética. Por un lado se presentan medidas de tipo informativo, y por otro lado medidas de financiación a la inversión en soluciones definitivas, que permiten combatir el problema a medio y largo plazo. Se valora su alcance desde un enfoque de derechos humanos.
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    Upholding the green agenda of COP27 through publicly funded R&D on energy efficiencies, renewables, nuclear and power storage technologies
    (Elsevier, 2023-11) Uche, Emmanuel; Ngepah, Nicholas; Cifuentes Faura, Javier; Ciencia Política, Antropología Social y Hacienda Pública; Facultad de Economía y Empresa
    Policy strategies to foster climate-change resilient ecosystems require broad-based identification of the mechanisms underlying the nexus. Prior investigations, maybe, inadvertently left so many factors unverified. Failing to verify, specifically, how climate change is influenced by public-funded research and development (R&D) on energy efficiencies, renewables, nuclear energy, and power storage technologies concealed vital policy insights. We have analyzed a panel series of the aforementioned factors stretching from 1985 to 2021 in the context of G10 countries. Several innovative panel techniques robust to cross-national exigencies were implemented. This includes two recently introduced third-generation panel unit-root procedures, the Banerjee and Carrion-iSilvestre cointegration process, the fully-generalized least square, panel-corrected standard error, Driscoll-Kray standard errors, and the dynamic common correlated effects estimator. Long-run elasticities informed that total R&D expenditure on green-technologies is more effective in mitigating energy-induced emissions than the overall surface temperature. R&D expenditure on energy efficiencies, renewables, and nuclear energies performed better in minifying both metrics than power storage. Fossil fuel technologies remained inimical to environmental sustainability. Energy-tax promoted environmental quality significantly by reducing both energy emissions and climate temperature. It is commendable to invest more in energy-enhancing technologies but other factors that have a direct bearing on climate-change deserve consideration.