Which Institutional Conditions Lead to a Successful Local Energy Transition? Applying Fuzzy-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis to Solar PV Cases in South Korea

Lee, Youhyun; Kim, Bomi; Hwang, Heeju

doi:10.3390/en13143696

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“…Therefore, by focusing the analysis on the conjunctural causation—also referred to as causal complexity—that determines the presence of a given solution, QCA was chosen. This causal complexity offers a realistic description of social phenomena [ 66 ]. QCA is an appropriate technique for applying MLP to sustainable transitions [ 13 , 35 ].…”

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The Transition of Cities towards Innovations in Mobility: Searching for a Global Perspective

Molina

Rey-Tienda

Suárez-Redondo

2022

IJERPH

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The growing concentration of the population in urban areas presents great challenges for sustainability. Within this process, mobility emerges as one of the main generators of externalities that hinder the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. The transition of cities towards innovations in sustainable mobility requires progress in different dimensions, whose interaction requires research. Likewise, it is necessary to establish whether the experiences developed between cities with different contexts can be extrapolated. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to identify how the conditions that determine a city’s readiness to implement urban mobility innovations could be combined. For this, qualitative comparative analysis was applied to a model developed using the multi-level perspective, analyzing 60 cities from different geographical areas and with a different gross domestic product per capita. The R package Set Methods was used. The explanation of the readiness of cities to implement mobility innovations is different to the explanation of the readiness negation. While readiness is explained by two solutions, in which only regime elements appear, the negation of readiness is explained by five possible solutions, showing the interaction between the landscape and regimen elements and enacting the negation of innovations as a necessary condition. The cluster analysis shows us that the results can be extrapolated between cities with different contexts.

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The Transition of Cities towards Innovations in Mobility: Searching for a Global Perspective

Molina

Rey-Tienda

Suárez-Redondo

2022

IJERPH

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“…Through some interviews, Brown et al exalt the role of prosumers in the energy transition and in shaping the new energy market through developing new business practices and business models [54]. On a similar note, it is pointed out how a high level of community participation, together with high-quality legislation and independent surveillance, is paramount for a successful implementation of RECs [55]. The general uncertainty in CER implementation is mainly linked to the poor legislative framework and the need for experimentation [56].…”

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Renewable Energy Community: Opportunities and Threats towards Green Transition

Sarcina,

Canesi

2023

Sustainability

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The European Union faces a complex economic conjunction where different factors affect and reduce the number of feasible and sustainable projects according to the legislation and the available resources. In this context, one of the available solutions to the current energy crisis could be the implementation of Renewable Energy Communities (RECs) to support the European dual transition targets. The idea of an energy community is still being defined in the literature and from a legislative perspective. The increasing REC dimension and numerosity demand in-depth studies on opportunities and threats in a still unexplored market. To clarify the Italian and European state of the art of these communities, this study in the first section addresses the socioeconomic and policy conditions needed for the foundation and development of energy communities by analyzing the in-force legislation. The analysis of the current regulation has been conducted to verify how RECs affect local communities and their degrees of freedom and action in regions. The second part of the study aimed to define threats and opportunities in creating new professional profiles and local job opportunities in this new thriving market. In this study, we collected interviews and surveys with market operators, both on the service providers’ side (ESCo) and the communities’ side (promoters), to identify conflicts and advantages associated with establishing communities. The participants were initially selected through publicly available lists, and after verifying the contact correctness, they were contacted by email or phone. The results of the interviews have been processed into a SWOT analysis, showing how national policies currently need to catch up in implementing this efficiency tool and how the restricted number and the variety of the existing communities increase the difficulty in creating cohesive and universal guidelines. Finally, local markets can still not correctly manage this innovative tool’s uncertainty despite being interested in it.

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“…Said et al [19] carried out an energetic and exergetic assessment of an FPSC filled with an aqueous aluminum oxide NF. In recent years, new studies have been conducted in similar fields [20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35]. Although the usage of NFs for the increased efficiency of FPSCs has been assessed, there is no study investigating the impacts of using elliptical tubes and aqueous, multiwalled carbon nanotube (MWCNT) NF-based heat sink solar collectors on the efficiency of exergy of solar collectors.…”

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Exergy Optimization of a Solar Collector in Flat Plate Shape Equipped with Elliptical Pipes Filled with Turbulent Nanofluid Flow: A Study for Thermal Management

Rostami

Sepehrirad

Dezfulizadeh

et al. 2020

Water

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In this paper, forced convection of a multiwalled carbon nanotube (MWCNT)–water nanofluid (NF) in a new flat plate solar collector (FPSC) equipped with elliptical pipes instead of circular ones is investigated. The three-dimensional conservation equations were solved in the domain with the finite volume method (FVM) based on the semi-implicit method for pressure linked equations (SIMPLE) algorithm. The laminar-turbulent range of the Reynolds number (Re) and the volume fraction of the NF (ϕ) were 50–12,000 and 0–0.1, respectively. The optimization process was accomplished through the comparison of diverse parameters to attain the optimal case with the highest exergy efficiency. In this study, it was concluded that, in the case of using elliptical pipes instead of circular tubes, the time that the fluid was inside the FPSC increased, which led to an increase in the outlet temperature, while the exergy efficiency of the FPSC increased. Additionally, it was observed that using elliptical pipes enhanced the outlet fluid temperature, energy efficiency, and exergy efficiency. Generally, while the trend of exergy efficiency variation with effective parameters was rising, applying elliptical pipes caused the efficiency to increase. In addition, the exergy efficiency variation decreased when these parameters were changed. The highest value of exergy efficiency was 7.1%. On the other hand, for each specific FPSC, there was a unique mass flow rate at which the exergy efficiency reached its maximum value, and for higher mass flow rates, the efficiency was slightly diminished and then remained unchanged. Finally, the highest exergy efficiency was achieved for ϕ = 0.10%.

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Which Institutional Conditions Lead to a Successful Local Energy Transition? Applying Fuzzy-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis to Solar PV Cases in South Korea

Cited by 13 publications

References 51 publications

The Transition of Cities towards Innovations in Mobility: Searching for a Global Perspective

The Transition of Cities towards Innovations in Mobility: Searching for a Global Perspective

Renewable Energy Community: Opportunities and Threats towards Green Transition

Exergy Optimization of a Solar Collector in Flat Plate Shape Equipped with Elliptical Pipes Filled with Turbulent Nanofluid Flow: A Study for Thermal Management

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