Effects of Kosovo’s energy use scenarios and associated gas emissions on its climate change and sustainable development

Kabashi, Serbeze; Bekteshi, Sadik; Ahmetaj, Skender; Kabashi, Gazmend; Najdovski, Dimitrij; Zidanšek, Aleksander; Šlaus, I.

doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2010.06.023

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“…The main production of electrical power takes place in large centralized units and is based on combustion of fossil fuels (a finite resource) with important environmental consequences like CO 2 , NO x and particulate emissions [31]. Especially CO 2 emissions are in focus nowadays, because of their expected contribution to climate change.…”

Section: Electricity Productionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Especially CO 2 emissions are in focus nowadays, because of their expected contribution to climate change. However, in the longer term also the security of supply of fossil fuels, like mineral oil, and natural gas and their potential depletion, are important points of concern [31]. Electricity can also be generated from nuclear fission plants but radioactive waste and safety are still main points of discussion in the future expansion of nuclear energy [32,33].…”

Section: Electricity Productionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Functioning devices for solar to fuel conversion

Mul¹,

Schacht²,

Swaaij³

et al. 2012

Chemical Engineering and Processing: Process Intensification

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a b s t r a c tThis paper provides a perspective on the technologies capable of converting solar energy, CO 2 and H 2 O into an easy to use fuel. The paper addresses bio-based approaches, but mainly focuses on (i) the combination of photovoltaic (PV) devices and electrocatalysis, (ii) single unit operation by photocatalytic conversion, and (iii) solar thermal conversion. Each option is described in a general manner, including a brief evaluation of the advantages and disadvantages. Also suggestions for future research endeavours are given. Based on the used literature data, for electrocatalytic and photocatalytic technologies, dramatic improvements should be made in material optimization, as well as reactor design and operation. Large efficiency gains are necessary to enable use of these technologies in practice. Solar thermal conversion is more mature, and requires specific optimization in processing, as will be discussed.

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Section: Electricity Productionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Electricity Productionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Functioning devices for solar to fuel conversion

Mul¹,

Schacht²,

Swaaij³

et al. 2012

Chemical Engineering and Processing: Process Intensification

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“…This dependence on lignite places Kosovo among the highest rates of CO 2 emissions per Euro GDP, with estimates at twice the average level for EU countries, despite a low rate of total CO 2 emissions per capita (Ministry of Environmental and Spatial Planning (MESP) 2014). The UNDP estimated 0.84 tons CO 2 / EUR GDP in Kosovo compared to 0.4 tons CO 2 /EUR GDP for the rest of the EU (Kabashi et al 2011, UNDP 2013. In addition to CO 2 emissions, households in Kosovo also seasonally burn lignite and wood in homes, unfiltered, causing concern for particulate matter and other household air pollution.…”

Section: The Energy Supply and Demand Picture For Kosovomentioning

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An analytic framework to assess future electricity options in Kosovo

Kittner

Dimco²,

Azemi³

et al. 2016

Environ. Res. Lett.

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We have developed an analytic platform to analyze the electricity options, costs, and impacts for Kosovo, a nation that is a critical part of the debate over centralized versus distributed electricity generation and the role of fossil fuels versus cleaner electricity options to meet growing demands for power. We find that a range of alternatives exists to meet present supply constraints all at a lower cost than constructing a proposed 600 MW coal plant. The options include energy efficiency measures, combinations of solar PV, wind, hydropower, and biomass, and the introduction of natural gas. A 30 EUR ton -1 shadow price on CO 2 increases costs of coal generation by at least 330 million EUR. The results indicate that financing a new coal plant is the most expensive pathway to meet future electricity demand.

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“…These organizations include International Energy Agency [18] and European Union [19][20][21] for example.…”

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Towards an Agent Based Framework for Modelling Smart Self-Sustainable Systems

Tomičić¹,

Schatten²

2015

: Interdiscip. Descr. Complex Syst.

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Self-sustainability is a property of a system; a system is considered to be self-sustainable if it can sustain itself without external support in an observed period of time. If this property is mapped to a human settlement in context of resources (water, energy, food, etc.), it would describe a human settlement which is independent of external resources (like the national electrical grid or a central water distribution system), where such external resources are either not available, or not desirable.This article contributes to presenting the state-of-the-art overview of self-sustainability-related research. While self-sustainability as in the above described form was not a direct subject of research, there are several fields which are either related to, or could be of significant value to the self-sustainability research in this context. The extensive literature overview also showed no frameworks for modeling self-sustainable systems in the context of human settlements. Herein a motivation for using agent-based modeling and simulation techniques will be given.

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Effects of Kosovo’s energy use scenarios and associated gas emissions on its climate change and sustainable development

Cited by 20 publications

References 3 publications

Functioning devices for solar to fuel conversion

Functioning devices for solar to fuel conversion

An analytic framework to assess future electricity options in Kosovo

Towards an Agent Based Framework for Modelling Smart Self-Sustainable Systems

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