Technological capabilities for innovation activities across Europe: Evidence from wind, solar and bioenergy technologies

Corsatea, Teodora Diana

doi:10.1016/j.rser.2014.04.067

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“…Analyzing the top ten countries it is possible to conclude that France, United Kingdom and Belgium are producing below the minimum theoretical production and that Czech Republic and Spain are producing above the maximum theoretical production. Germany is an important investor in solar energy technology with more than 60% of the total European Research expenditure [44], however it revealed a performance within the limits of what was expected.…”

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PV sector in the European Union countries – Clusters and efficiency

Martins

2017

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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European Union (EU) due to several challenges that exist nowadays has changed its Energy Policy. In order to fulfill international commitments concerning greenhouse gas emission and to assure safety in supply and stable prices, EU has been a leader in renewable energy. In many EU countries solar energy is a possible and very viable option. Together with wind energy, photovoltaic energy is the new support core of a low carbon EU economy in what concerns electricity production. In this work clusters of countries were generated based on the energy produced by PV systems and the share of energy from PV systems in the total electricity produced by renewable sources. This work also analyzed the production of energy from the photovoltaic sector in EU and compared it with the existing potential for this type of energy. Roughly half of the EU countries are producing energy within the limits of what is expected, considering the irradiation on optimally inclined plane. However some of them could improve the ratio between energy production and installed power. Considering the leader countries in energy production from photovoltaic, Czech Republic and Spain are the countries that exceed what it is expected.

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PV sector in the European Union countries – Clusters and efficiency

Martins

2017

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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“…In this study, we contribute to the literature on greentech inventions across countries and in different technologies 24 by focusing attention on the role played by large multinational firms. The leading role of multinational companies in the growth of the green sector was assessed by OECD (Kalamova, 2011;Corsatea, 2014) as well as the importance of clear and continuous national public policies to promote both greentech technology development and market demands. However to our knowledge no research has ever studied to which extend such large contributors to the technological progress have participated in the take off of the "green innovation machine" (Aghion and Veugelers, 2009) 25 .…”

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Technological contribution of MNEs to the growth of energy-greentech sector in the early post-Kyoto period

Laurens

Bas

Schoen

et al. 2015

Environ Econ Policy Stud

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Online Octobre 2015International audienceWe consider the commitment of large firms with high R&D investments to the development of technologies of climate change mitigation related to the production or storage of energy. We analyze such climate change mitigation technologies focused on energy production and storage (energy CCMT) across the globe with the aim of assessing whether the Kyoto Protocol fosters the diffusion of inventive activity in energy greentech. Using patents as the key dataset, we give an empirical description of the corporate patenting activity and assess its contribution to the overall energy CCMT inventions across countries and sectors of energy greentech before and after the signing of the Kyoto Protocol (1997). Our observations indicate that climate change issues and greentech development have not been prioritized to the same extent by firms of western countries as opposed to, for example, Japanese firms in the beginning of the 2000s. However, we witness a growing commitment in most of the western countries. US large firms were more prone to gain skills in renewable energy technologies than most of their European counterparts, which continue to heavily invest in traditional energies such as Nuclear energy and Combustion

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“…The carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology has recently received great attention as a mitigation action for decreasing the environmental impact of energy conversion processes based on the use of fossil fuels. Another example of mitigation action includes the switch from a fossil fuel-based economy to an economy that relies on the use of renewable energy sources such as biomass, solar, and wind energies (Jäger-Waldau, 2007;Blanco, 2009;Nema et al, 2012;Schaber et al, 2012;Timilsina et al, 2012;Corsatea, 2014). However, given the current state of development of the latter ones, fossil fuels will continue to play an important role in the future, and as a result, actions such as CCS are worthy being investigated.…”

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Design of the CO2 Removal Section for PSA Tail Gas Treatment in a Hydrogen Production Plant

2020

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CO 2 capture, storage, and, recently, utilization (CCSU) is considered effective in achieving the target of 2 • C established to reduce the gradual increase in global warming. In the literature, most of research has focused on the removal of carbon dioxide from power plants, particularly those fed with coal, which account for higher amounts of CO 2 emissions if compared with those fed with natural gas. CCSU in other non-power sectors is still not fully considered, while its importance in mitigating the environmental impact of industrial activities is equivalent to that of power plants. In the field of hydrogen production, treatment of gaseous streams to remove carbon dioxide is performed for producing a stream of almost pure H 2 starting from syngas and for reducing carbon dioxide emissions, so that CO 2 removal units can be part of different sections of the plant. In this work, a state-of-the-art steam-methane-reforming (SMR) plant for the production of 100,000 Nm 3 /h of hydrogen has been considered. Hydrogen is produced from syngas by employing the pressure swing adsorption (PSA) technology, and the exiting tail gas is fed to the burners of the SMR unit, after removal of carbon dioxide. This work focuses on the design of the units for the treatment of the PSA tail gas by employing an aqueous solution of methyldiethanolamine (MDEA). Simulations have been performed with the commercial process simulator ASPEN Plus ® , customized by the GASP group of Politecnico di Milano for best representing both the thermodynamics of the system and the mass transfer with reaction. For the scheme composed of the absorber and the regenerator, several column configurations have been considered, and the optimal solution, which minimizes the energy requirements of the plant, has been selected.

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Technological capabilities for innovation activities across Europe: Evidence from wind, solar and bioenergy technologies

Cited by 29 publications

References 26 publications

PV sector in the European Union countries – Clusters and efficiency

PV sector in the European Union countries – Clusters and efficiency

Technological contribution of MNEs to the growth of energy-greentech sector in the early post-Kyoto period

Design of the CO2 Removal Section for PSA Tail Gas Treatment in a Hydrogen Production Plant

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