Energy Policy
Abolfazl Dehghanmongabadi; Zahra Tahmasbnia
Abstract
In recent decades, due to the increase in the urban population and the unbridled growth of urbanization, many efforts have been made to create livable cities by emphasizing the place of renewable energy in the sustainable transportation sector. Using clean, renewable, and sustainable energy resources ...
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In recent decades, due to the increase in the urban population and the unbridled growth of urbanization, many efforts have been made to create livable cities by emphasizing the place of renewable energy in the sustainable transportation sector. Using clean, renewable, and sustainable energy resources is needed to improve social, economic, and environmental health, leading to economic development and productivity. This research tries to clarify the importance of using renewable energy in the transportation sector. In this regard, the main goal of this research is to identify effective indicators and sustainable solutions with an emphasis on the use of renewable energy in the urban transportation sector. Also, in this research, an attempt has been made to answer the questions raised by carefully examining the existing studies based on the scoping review method. The findings show that the extracted influential indicators can be categorized into environmental, economic, and social indicators, which have a significant impact on the use of renewable energy in the transportation sector. Paying attention to this index can increase the amount of use of renewable energy and the amount of desirability of the effective use of urban transportation. Finally, suggestions for strengthening sustainable development in urban transportation systems with an emphasis on the use of renewable energy have been presented.
S.Ollah Mohammadi-Aylar; M. Almassi; H. Bakhoda
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Due to the needs of modern societies to provide their energy fully or partially from the renewable energy sources and its necessity as a main principle of sustainable development, its necessary to assess and evaluate renewable energy and its integrating for utilizing a part of consumed energy for societies ...
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Due to the needs of modern societies to provide their energy fully or partially from the renewable energy sources and its necessity as a main principle of sustainable development, its necessary to assess and evaluate renewable energy and its integrating for utilizing a part of consumed energy for societies from cheap energy resource and solving the ecological and social problems. Despite of great potentials of Ardabil province in agriculture, water streams, climatic precipitation and climatic conditions, the necessity of appropriate investments in order to better exploitation form these capabilities (renewable energy) increases. The goal of this research is to potentiometry for the exploitation of renewable energies (solar, wind, biomass and bio-energy, water) based on farming, improvement of policy making for developing renewable energies, developing atlas of renewable energies based on farming and improving policy making of developing renewable energies in Ardabil province. According to the results of this study, the most talented town of Ardabil province in terms of renewable energy is Meshgin shahr town. Solar energy 3/449 kW h/m2/y, hydropower 270/34 Gw h/y and geothermal 76/11kw h/y ranked the first among all the cities of Ardabil province. And the lowest was Sarein city.
Photovoltaic Systems
M. Lak Kamari; H. Isvand; M. Alhuyi Nazari
Abstract
Renewable energies are noticeably developing due to their various advantages such as low greenhouse gases emission, availability and their reducing cost trend. In order to achieve the favorable objectives in energy projects, it is crucial to consider all the related parameters affecting the decision ...
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Renewable energies are noticeably developing due to their various advantages such as low greenhouse gases emission, availability and their reducing cost trend. In order to achieve the favorable objectives in energy projects, it is crucial to consider all the related parameters affecting the decision making. Multi Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) methods are reliable and efficient tool for policy making and achieving the most appropriate solution. These approaches consider the influential factors and their relative importance in prioritizing the alternatives. Since the outcome of the MCDM approaches depend on the employed algorithm and the used criteria, this article focuses on the studies related to the applications of these methods in renewable energy technology selection. The aim of the present paper is extracting the criteria which are necessary to be used in decision making for renewable energy systems. In addition, the approaches employed for improving the performance of MCDM methods as decision making aids are represented. According to this review study, technical, economic and environmental criteria are utilized in the majority of decision making researches. Moreover, some of the studies have considered other criteria such as social and risk to achieve more reliable decision. Some ideas are represented in the reviewed researches such as integrating different methods and using fuzzy sets, instead of crisp sets, to improve the performance of the MCDM methods and reduce the uncertainties.