Low Carbon Energy Technologies in Sustainable Energy Systems

ISBN-13: 9780128228975 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 420 str.

Grigorios L. Kyriakopoulos

Spis treści

Part 1 Introduction and fundamentals 1. The role of resource recovery technologies in reducing the demand of fossil fuels and conventional fossil-based mineral fertilizers 2. Increasing efficiency of mining enterprises power consumption 3. The contribution of energy crops to biomass production

Part 2 Examining low carbon energy technologies and their contribution as sustainable energy systems 4. Public attitudes toward the major renewable energy types in the last 5 years: A scoping review of the literature 5. Understanding willingness to pay for renewable energy among citizens of the European Union during the period 2010-20 6. Linking energy homeostasis, exergy management, and resiliency to develop sustainable grid-connected distributed generation systems for their integration into the distribution grid by electric utilities 7. Smart energy systems and the need to incorporate homeostatically controlled microgrids to the electric power distribution industry: an electric utilities' perspective 8. Grid-tied distributed generation with energy storage to advance renewables in the residential sector: tariffs analysis with energy sharing innovations 9. Integrating green energy into the grid: how to engineer energy homeostaticity, flexibility and resiliency in electric power distribution systems and why should electric utilities care 10. Multi energy systems of the future 11. Bibliometric analysis of scientific production on energy, sustainability, and climate change 12. Public acceptance of renewable energy sources 13. Sustainable site selection of offshore wind farms using GIS-based multi-criteria decision analysis and analytical hierarchy process. Case study: Island of Crete (Greece) 14. Accounting and Sustainability

Part 3 Conclusions and future research 15. Should low carbon energy technologies be envisaged in the context of sustainable energy systems?