From utility demand side management to low-carbon transitions: Opportunities and challenges for energy efficiency governance in a new era

Haley, Brendan; Gaede, James; Winfield, Mark; Love, Peter

doi:10.1016/j.erss.2019.101312

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“…Finally, institutions are particularly important to the adoption of renewable energy technologies, including the consumption of renewable energy [71]. However, studies have devoted little attention to the institutional designs required for transition to renewable energy in South Asian countries.…”

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Solar Home Systems in South Asia: Examining Adoption, Energy Consumption, and Social Practices

Ojöng

2021

Sustainability

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Renewable electricity generation from solar energy has rapidly increased in South Asia. This paper presents a systematic review of 79 scholarly papers on the topic of solar home system adoption, energy consumption, and social practices in South Asia. Using an intersectionality lens, the paper demonstrates that various categories of difference, such as gender, age, class, and ethnicity, intersect and shape the adoption of this technology in South Asia. Utilizing a social practice theory lens, the paper shows that solar home systems shape the spatial and temporal arrangements and practices of members of households that have adopted the technology, as well as their counterparts who have not. This technology has a practical but also symbolic function; the symbolic function and social meaning are derived from the economic and socio-cultural contexts. As this renewable energy technology is embedded in economic and socio-cultural contexts, people reconfigure it in creative ways to meet their everyday energy needs. The paper identifies research gaps and suggests future research agendas.

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Section: Gaps and Future Research Agendasmentioning

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Solar Home Systems in South Asia: Examining Adoption, Energy Consumption, and Social Practices

Ojöng

2021

Sustainability

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“…The possibility of EP in a household therefore depends on the family income or its energy expenditure [11]. The level of users' income and its possible variations that could take place in families (e.g., due to job loss of its members) could be unknown when designing a new building, so a value driver for energy efficiency projects is that these projects constitute instruments to reduce the possibility of EP cases in the future [27]. The acquisition of a dwelling unit with better energy performance ensures that a family is unlikely to be in EP in the future because of the dwelling unit's energy performance.…”

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Building Energy Efficiency and Sustainability

Bienvenido-Huertas

Rubio-Bellido

2021

SpringerBriefs in Architectural Design and Technology

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Architects and engineers play a key role in the transformation of the building sector toward energy efficiency and climate change mitigation. Buildings are responsible for 40% of the total energy consumption and 11.9% of the CO 2 emission. In this sense, various international agreements are focused to decarbonize buildings, and the concept of nearly Zero-Energy Buildings (nZEB) as well as the implementation of Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) have been designed. For that reason, building energy efficiency projects could be a driving force to achieve a low-carbon building stock and Energy Poverty (EP) mitigation. This chapter considers energy improvements and comfortable indoor spaces, in which the most appropriate operational guidelines and the users' training measures are crucial. With this approach, adaptive thermal comfort models could be an opportunity to guarantee sustainable use of Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems without affecting users' thermal comfort. This paves the way for significant reductions in energy consumption with a more responsible use of HVAC systems considering the adaptive thermal comfort models. Keywords Energy efficiency • Climate change • Nearly zero-energy building • Energy performance certificate • Energy poverty • Building sector • Thermal comfort • Adaptive comfort Low-Carbon Economy Goals and Energy Efficiency in BuildingsWhy are architects and engineers essential to decarbonize society? Various answers are possible, but the most direct is the potential of technicians to achieve a sustainable balance between citizens' activity and the natural environment, and this is due to the current environmental situation. The natural environment is today in a continuous process of environmental degradation that contributes to environmental pollution, sea-level rise, and more and more extreme temperatures [71]. In addition, the greatest anthropogenic activity is depleting the Earth's natural resources. Some reports of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) indicate that the capacity of these resources was

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“…All countries are very concerned about the performance and achievement of their energy transition (Zhang, 2019). From the perspective of system operation and government supervision, such a performance or an achievement can be reflected in two aspects: the efficiency in energy transition and the equality in energy transition (Haley et al, 2020;Liu et al, 2018). In the process of energy transition, however, there are still some phenomena in a state of misalignment (disorder and misadjustment) (Liu et al, 2018).…”

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Research on the Orderliness Synergy Between Conventional and Nonconventional for Energy Transition in China

Liu

Lu²,

Zhao³

2022

Front. Energy Res.

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Many industrialized countries are pursuing energy transition, but their focuses are different. The orderliness synergy as a unique aspiration of the current energy transition is emphasized in this article by constructing an orderliness-synergy evaluation model and selecting a dataset covering the period of 2011–2018 from Industrial Scale, Economic Benefit, Social Contribution, and Growth Potential of China to calculate the comprehensive development level and the orderliness-synergy degree of both the conventional energy industry and the nonconventional one. A novel evaluation model with stock-increment attributes is built to measure the resource storage and the growth rate systematically and to further analyze their driving forces. The results reveal that 1) the overall orderliness-synergy degree of these two sub-industries shows an upward trend year by year; however, there are some significant differences among them. 2) China’s energy transition has shown a dramatic promotion in the structural upgrading, while the momentums of these two sub-industries show a shift from the stock–resource–contribution advantage to the increment–resource–contribution advantage. 3) The actual stock-increment contribution coefficient values of these two sub-industries have not reached the development expectations of industrial performances, and there is still reasonable space for the structural optimization. Finally, policy implications are discussed.

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From utility demand side management to low-carbon transitions: Opportunities and challenges for energy efficiency governance in a new era

Cited by 35 publications

References 31 publications

Solar Home Systems in South Asia: Examining Adoption, Energy Consumption, and Social Practices

Solar Home Systems in South Asia: Examining Adoption, Energy Consumption, and Social Practices

Building Energy Efficiency and Sustainability

Research on the Orderliness Synergy Between Conventional and Nonconventional for Energy Transition in China

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