Exploring drivers of energy demand in Cyprus – Scenarios and policy options

Zachariadis, Theodoros; Taibi, Emanuele

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2015.07.003

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“…The density of population was found not to be a good predictor of any of the three indicators of energy use intensity, contrary to what has been found in previous study [14]. The median income (PPP), while being sometimes highlighted as a driver or energy consumption (e.g., [9,10] and, sometimes in larger scales like nation-wise [57]) appears to not be a good predictor of energy use intensity. Regarding power-law across cities at MTU level, two out of nine relations are relevant: the density of population with the energy use per capita, and the median income (PPP) with the residential energy use, although only a small portion of variance is predicted based on these urban features (r 20 .33, and 0.23 resp.).…”

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The Scale-Dependent Behaviour of Cities: A Cross-Cities Multiscale Driver Analysis of Urban Energy Use

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Hosting more than half of the world population, cities are currently responsible for two thirds of the global energy use and three quarters of the global CO2 emissions related to energy use. As humanity becomes more urbanized, urban systems are becoming a major nexus of global sustainability. Various studies have tried to pinpoint urban energy use drivers in order to find actionable levers to mitigate consumption and its associated environmental effects. Some of the approaches, mainly coming from complexity science and industrial ecology disciplines, use city-scale data to find power-laws relating to different types of energy use metrics with urban features at a city-scale. By doing so, cities’ internal complexity and heterogeneity are not explicitly addressed. Moreover, to our knowledge, no studies have yet explicitly addressed the potential scale dependency of such drivers. Drivers might not be transferable to other scales and yield undesired effects. In the present study, power-law relations are examined for 10 cities worldwide at city scale and infra-city scale, and the results are compared across scales. Relations are made across three urban features for three energy use intensity metrics. The results show that energy use drivers are in fact scale-dependent and are city-dependent for intra-urban territories.

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The Scale-Dependent Behaviour of Cities: A Cross-Cities Multiscale Driver Analysis of Urban Energy Use

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“…Furthermore, the technical aspects of the process could be exploited more intensely. Prospected country energy demand rise [41] could create local interest and need. Moreover, the planned pipeline interconnections [60] could provide overseas sale options for the available natural gas.…”

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“…Regarding the technical context, the energy demand in Cyprus is projected to rise, calculated to be 5% to 44% higher in 2040 than that it was in 2010 [41]. Furthermore, there is planning for energy interconnections such as the "EastMed Pipeline", aiming to link the East Mediterranean gas reserves to the Greek mainland via Crete, which has been labelled as a Project of Common Interest (PCI) by the European Union [60].…”

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The Application of Analytical Hierarchy Process in Combination with PESTEL-SWOT Analysis to Assess the Hydrocarbons Sector in Cyprus

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Natural gas reserves have been recently found offshore of Cyprus. Hence, a new energy sector is under development, creating potential for raised welfare for the small insular EU member. Several social and economic benefits could be achieved from the resources’ exploitation. However, natural gas is a non-renewable energy source, connected with the major environmental issues of fossil fuels. The research goal of this work was to evaluate the sustainability of the new hydrocarbons sector. This was attained using a set of indicators, developed from the combination of PESTEL (Political, Economic, Technical, Social, Environmental, Legal) and SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) analyses. These were quantified using the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) weighting method. They were pairwise compared and evaluated, resulting to a size for each one. The judgements of four evaluators, representing diverse interested parties, were used. The strengths and opportunities of the sector were found to be more than the weaknesses and threats. The relevant indicators quantification demonstrates also that the value of the positives is higher than the negatives. Therefore, if the first are enhanced and the latter are mitigated, there is sustainability potential. The sectors environmental issues are evaluated as the most important, followed by the economic. The other takes lower but comparatively significant values, and must be handled accordingly. These results lead to useful conclusions and could be exploited for decision-making and policies formulation.

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“…The assessment of the effect of green interventions on energy use and air emissions was carried out with OSeMOSYS, a long-term bottom-up energy systems model, whose objective function is the minimization of the discounted system cost, satisfying all exogenously defined demands for energy services within a set of context-specific constraints (Howells et al, 2011). Some of the input to OSeMOSYS is provided by a separate energy forecast model (Zachariadis and Taibi, 2015) which projects final energy consumption across the economy as well as the related energy expenditures of households and businesses that will be used in the economic modeling described in Section 3.2.…”

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“Building Back Better” in Practice: A Science-Policy Framework for a Green Economic Recovery after COVID-19

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Giannakis²,

Taliotis³

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The Policy Research Working Paper Series disseminates the findings of work in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about development issues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully polished. The papers carry the names of the authors and should be cited accordingly. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the authors. They do not necessarily represent the views of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/World Bank and its affiliated organizations, or those of the Executive Directors of the World Bank or the governments they represent.

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Exploring drivers of energy demand in Cyprus – Scenarios and policy options

Cited by 15 publications

References 5 publications

The Scale-Dependent Behaviour of Cities: A Cross-Cities Multiscale Driver Analysis of Urban Energy Use

The Scale-Dependent Behaviour of Cities: A Cross-Cities Multiscale Driver Analysis of Urban Energy Use

The Application of Analytical Hierarchy Process in Combination with PESTEL-SWOT Analysis to Assess the Hydrocarbons Sector in Cyprus

“Building Back Better” in Practice: A Science-Policy Framework for a Green Economic Recovery after COVID-19

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