2. The spanish electricity system 3. Methodology 4. Land–energy trade-off: impacts on the energy mix 5. Land–energy trade-off: socio-environmental impacts and link to existing development plans 6. Conclusions CRediT authorship contribution statement Declaration of competing interest Acknowledgments Ap...
container terminals Energy consumption were calculated in different terminal layouts has been calculated based on utility data and fuel consumption as well as electricity consumption of each container-handling equipment. The energy con- sumption of terminals A and B (with the parallel and perpendicular ...
Power generation used 155 QBTUs—representing a hefty 37 percent of global energy use—to generate 57 QBTUs of delivered electricity in 2003. In short, close to two-thirds of the energy put into the process is lost before it rea...
The EU Commission has set a target of 10% electricity interconnection by 2020. This means that all EU countries should construct electricity cables that allow at least 10% of the electricity produced by their power plants to be transported across its borders to its neighboring countries. However,...
Conventional heat engines can also be used to produce electricity from chemical energy through an intermediate mechanical process. Because much of the energy emitted is not used in the form of heat, a system designed to capture the energy produced, such as a fuel cell, does not suffer the ...
In addition to these targets set for 2030 by the United Nations, countries also have their plans for renewable energy and energy efficiency. For example, while the United States provides 21% of its electricity production from renewable sources in 2020, the target set for 2050 is to increase th...
Financial constraints have hindered the implementation of many reform plans in the power generation, transmission, and distribution sectors, Supporting or subsidizing the idea behind the unit price, which leads to different types of consumers’ lack of understanding of electricity consumption. ...
In 2002, the provincial government of Ontario first announced plans to close all coal-burning thermoelectric generating stations. Facing the loss of local jobs should the local generating station close, Atikokan, Ontario, residents responded. This resear
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cheaper energy compared with fuel, the replacement of fuel by electricity can be reflected in the energy cost (𝐶𝐸CE) that can be expressed as in Equation (9), where 𝐶𝑓Cf and 𝐶𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑡𝑦Celectricity are the fuel and electricity costs respectively....