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Site selection strategy for photovoltaic power plants construction on gangue hills: An integrated method based on GIS and AHP-TOPSIS

IF 7.9 2区工程技术 Q1 ENERGY & FUELS

Energy Strategy Reviews

Pub Date : 2025-04-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.esr.2025.101722

Fang Shi , Xiaodan Li , MIngrui Li , Bo Bai

China's extensive mining history has led to the formation of numerous abandoned mines and coal gangue hills, which pose significant environmental and social challenges. These sites contribute to ecological degradation, environmental pollution, and socio-economic issues such as unemployment and urban decline. Addressing the management and transformation of these mining wastelands is crucial for sustainable development. This study explores the potential of establishing photovoltaic (PV) power plants on gangue hills as a means of environmental rehabilitation and economic revitalization. By integrating Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and the Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to an Ideal Solution (TOPSIS), the research develops a site selection model to evaluate suitable areas for PV construction on gangue hills. The model considers multiple factors, including economic, transportation, geographical, environmental, and social impacts, to ensure optimal site selection and sustainable development. The study focuses on Yangquan City, Shanxi Province, a major coal mining region, and identifies 14 gangue hills suitable for PV construction. The results demonstrate that PV projects on gangue hills can achieve dual benefits of ecological restoration and economic efficiency. The research proposes three development strategies: science popularization and entertainment construction, resource reclamation construction, and ecological restoration construction, tailored to different types of gangue hills. This study provides a comprehensive framework for the sustainable utilization of mining wastelands, offering valuable insights for policymakers and stakeholders in the renewable energy sector.

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Assessing the security of crude oil supply chain: The case of China

IF 7.9 2区工程技术 Q1 ENERGY & FUELS

Energy Strategy Reviews

Pub Date : 2025-04-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.esr.2025.101733

Jingye Liu, Fengqi Guo, Ying Shi, Rijia Ding, Zhen Chen

The recurrence of international geopolitical events has intensified tensions in global energy supply chains. As a major crude oil consumer, China urgently needs to identify vulnerabilities within its crude oil supply chain (COSC) and implement targeted measures to safeguard national energy security. In this study, a risk evaluation index system was constructed based on the entire life cycle in COSC. Then, the phased and overall prominent risks in the China's COSC from 2012 to 2022 were identified through a two-phase DEA-like model. Furthermore, the evolution of the comprehensive security level of COSC was assessed throughout the study period. Specifically, the phased risks of China's COSC mainly focused on strategic petroleum reserves (SPR) in the midstream application stage and refined oil trade in the downstream consumption stage. Additionally, China's COSC primarily confronted overall risks involving domestic crude oil supply potential, geopolitical imports, maritime transportation, and domestic oil consumption. Although the security level of China's COSC showed an upward trend from 2012 to 2022, the security of the upstream still lagged behind that of the midstream and downstream. Hence, policy recommendations to enhance China's COSC security include advancing the exploration and development of unconventional oil, strengthening international energy cooperation and the autonomy of maritime transportation, expanding the SPR, increasing the proportion of renewable energy, and establishing a risk early warning platform.

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Penalty mechanism in transactive energy: A mechanism design approach for day-ahead markets

IF 7.9 2区工程技术 Q1 ENERGY & FUELS

Energy Strategy Reviews

Pub Date : 2025-04-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.esr.2025.101712

Alejandro Parrado-Duque , Nilson Henao , Sousso Kelouwani , Kodjo Agbossou , Juan C. Oviedo-Cepeda

Ensuring incentive compatibility mechanisms to enforce market obligations is crucial in deploying a transactive energy system. While previous studies have reported adopting penalty mechanisms for market compliance, these studies did not generally analyse the incentive compatibility property of mechanism design. Neglecting this mechanism design property can lead to inefficient market outcomes and economic losses for system operators. This paper analyses self-enforcing policies to verify whether they comply with the incentive compatibility property in a one-shot market architecture. Additionally, it provides a comprehensive introduction to the phases of mechanism design – ex-ante, interim, and ex-post – and their relationship with key design principles: individual rationality, efficiency, budget balance, and incentive compatibility, highlighting expected outcomes at each phase. A case study demonstrates how a strategy-proof mechanism significantly influences individual rationality, efficiency, and budget balance, offering practical insights for improving decision-making frameworks in electricity markets. Moreover, the findings reveal that adopting a non-strategy-proof mechanism undermines the long-term viability of transactive energy systems. This work provides actionable recommendations for system operators and policymakers on implementing mechanisms that prevent strategic behaviour from agents.

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Measuring the impacts of Saudi Arabia's energy diversification strategy: A review

IF 7.9 2区工程技术 Q1 ENERGY & FUELS

Energy Strategy Reviews

Pub Date : 2025-04-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.esr.2025.101731

Khalid Amin Alnemeiri, Guillermo Iglesias Gómez, Fernando DeLlano-Paz

Saudi Arabia announced its ambitious goal to produce around 50 % of its electricity from renewable energy sources as part of its Vision 2030. The impact of this country's energy policy on economic-related areas has been the subject of intense research in the last decade.

The aim of the study is twofold: on the one hand, to conduct a structured and accessible synthesis of studies already carried out and, on the other hand, to detect possible gaps of interest to be covered in the specialized literature on this issue.

The synthesis is based on a selective search for relevant publications in different academically-recognized databases. Studies were grouped in five areas in order to provide an in-depth review of Saudi Arabia's energy diversification strategy in different periods. Namely, we consider the impact on the domestic economy, the country's ecological footprint, investment potential, a techno-economic analysis, and the role of Saudi Aramco.

Based on our review of the literature, most studies have found that renewable energy is positively correlated to economic-related areas in Saudi Arabia, contributes to a lower environmental impact, and requires significant volumes of investment, especially for the development of solar energy and hybrid combinations, with Aramco being a major player. However, the implications of feasible and promising renewable energy systems for Saudi Arabia's oil revenue are a topic worthy of further research.

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Evolution analysis of the decoupling state and drivers between economic growth and CO2 emissions in RCEP member countries

IF 7.9 2区工程技术 Q1 ENERGY & FUELS

Energy Strategy Reviews

Pub Date : 2025-04-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.esr.2025.101709

Xichun Luo , Honghao Zhao

With the development of urban cities and their economic growth, the increase of CO₂ emissions has become challenging, since the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) was officially established. To address this challenge, this study analyzes the historical trends in the RCEP economy and CO₂ emissions and determines the decoupling state of each member country using the Tapio decoupling model. Furthermore, this research obtains the driving factors affecting CO₂ emissions using the Logarithmic Mean Divisia Index (LMDI) model and analyses the driving forces of each member country to achieve the decoupling process by combining the LMDI and Tapio decoupling models. The results show that (1) Japan is the best decoupling country in terms of the decoupling relationship between economic growth and CO₂ emissions, while China has the most stable performance. Overall, developed countries exhibit better decoupling state than developing countries. From the aspect of proportion of decoupling states, the optimal state strong decoupling (SD) and the sub-optimal state weak decoupling (WD) account for 20.95 % and 31.43 %, respectively. The total percentage of these two states exceeds 50 %, which indicates a good decoupling status in the RCEP region. (2) The key drivers of CO₂ emission growth are economic and population effects, while the key driver of carbon emission reduction is the energy intensity effect. (3) The energy intensity effect is the main driver to achieve the decoupling process, while the greatest obstacle to the decoupling process is the economic effect. Finally, this study provides policy recommendations for the early realization of the decoupling process of economic growth and CO₂ emissions in RCEP member countries.

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Sex for solar? Examining patterns of public and private sector corruption within the booming California solar energy market

IF 7.9 2区工程技术 Q1 ENERGY & FUELS

Energy Strategy Reviews

Pub Date : 2025-04-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.esr.2025.101727

Benjamin K. Sovacool , Bojana Novaković , Alexander A. Dunlap

Based on extensive research—including 38 interview respondents, four focus groups, participant observation, and extensive document analysis throughout Southeastern California—this article examines perceived patterns of corruption associated with a rapid boom in utility-scale solar energy investment and deployment. It identifies seven distinct corruption patterns over the recent period of 2010–2024. Clientelism is evident in the hiring of friends or colleagues on solar energy projects, and it is closely linked to favoritism, which refers to inefficiently allocating contracts, permits or licenses, at times in exchange for sex. Rent-seeking occurs in the diversion or capturing of public spending into private hands, and it can include land grabbing, or dispossessing groups of people of their communal or public land. Service diversion encompasses the avoidance of the distribution of local benefits. Theft includes the coercive removal of somebody else's equipment, property or cultural artifacts. Greenwashing refers to flawed impact assessments, as well as the overriding of environmental objectives or misleading the public about the environmental benefits of a project. Tax evasion refers to nonpayment or underpayment of taxes, or avoiding strategically the payment of local taxes. Non-transparency is evidenced in the hiding or failing to disclose relevant or important information. We conclude by calling for major reforms of the solar energy market and by identifying an agenda for future research.

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Assessing the relevance of the Granger non-causality test for energy policymaking: theoretical and empirical insights

IF 7.9 2区工程技术 Q1 ENERGY & FUELS

Energy Strategy Reviews

Pub Date : 2025-04-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.esr.2025.101743

Brahim Bergougui , Manuel A. Zambrano-Monserrate

This paper highlights the relevance of Granger non-causality tests in energy economics research, particularly for informing public policy decisions. While approaches such as CS-ARDL and estimators like AMG and CCEMG are widely used, they do not fully capture the predictive relationships between variables. To illustrate this, we revisit the findings of Irfan et al. (2023), who analyzed factors influencing energy transitions in G-7 and E−7 economies using Westerlund's (2007) cointegration method and CS-ARDL. Additionally, we incorporate data from Zhao et al. (2024) to estimate the relationships between artificial intelligence, GDP, trade, population, and energy efficiency using the CS-ARDL approach, complemented by Granger non-causality tests. Our results, in some cases, expand upon the evidence provided by Irfan et al. (2023), while in others, they suggest a different interpretation of key relationships. Specifically, we find that the mineral market does not exhibit significant predictive power over energy transition, whereas trade and economic growth contribute meaningfully to renewable energy development. Furthermore, using data from Zhao et al. (2024), we confirm that incorporating non-causality tests enhances the interpretation of CS-ARDL estimates, demonstrating that these tests provide valuable insights into the directionality of economic and energy relationships, which is important for policy formulation. These findings highlight the importance of integrating non-causality tests with traditional econometric methods to derive more robust and policy-relevant conclusions.

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Does emotional inhibition affect public perceptions of not-in-my-backyard infrastructures? A case study of waste-to-energy incineration facilities

IF 7.9 2区工程技术 Q1 ENERGY & FUELS

Energy Strategy Reviews

Pub Date : 2025-04-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.esr.2025.101741

Yujie Lu , Menglei Jiang , Caiyun Cui , Bo Xia , Martin Skitmore , Yong Liu

NIMBY (Not-In-My-Backyard) phenomena are widespread social issues in energy project development that fundamentally stem from public risk perceptions and emotional reactions to sensitive facilities. Emotions are critical factors that shape public cognition and attitudes, playing a pivotal role in both the emergence and resolution of NIMBY conflicts. This study uses waste-to-energy (WTE) facilities as a case to explore the impact of emotion inhibition strategies on public cognition and attitudes through behavioral survey experiments. A comparative analysis of positive and negative emotion inhibition was conducted with 240 participants, and the results of the study demonstrate that emotional inhibition can substantially alter public perceptions, with varying impacts depending on whether positive or negative emotions are inhibited and on the group size. Insights are provided into the role of emotions in shaping public perceptions during group discussions, supporting governmental efforts to anticipate and manage energy facility construction conflicts, mitigate negative outcomes from emotional arousal, and promote the sustainable development of WTE incineration facilities.

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Electricity availability and access for economic opportunities: A disaggregated analysis of gender gaps and implications for pro-poor growth

IF 7.9 2区工程技术 Q1 ENERGY & FUELS

Energy Strategy Reviews

Pub Date : 2025-04-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.esr.2025.101723

Abiola John Asaleye , Rufaro Garidzirai , Thobeka Ncanywa

Increasing living standards and overall economic development depend on electricity access and availability. However, in developing regions, access to reliable and affordable electricity remains a formidable challenge; this study examines the impact of electricity access and availability on both aggregate and gender-disaggregated economic participation in South Africa, a country that, despite its industrial advancement, faces significant disparities in electricity access and availability. These disparities have hindered economic growth and worsened gender inequalities, hindering efforts toward inclusive and pro-poor development. Using autoregressive distributed lags (ARDL), Structural Vector autoregression (SVAR) and the Granger non-causality approach, the study examines the short- and long-term effects, shock and causal effects of electricity availability and access on aggregate, male and female economic participation. The findings reveal that electricity availability has a negative impact on aggregate economic participation in the short run but a positive effect in the long run. Conversely, electricity access negatively influences economic participation in the short and long run, with more pronounced effects observed in male economic participation. The causal relationships show the unidirectional impacts of electricity access and consumption on economic participation and educational attainment. Furthermore, the shock analysis showed that electricity access and availability disruptions disproportionately affect male wage rates and educational attainment. The study recommends policies to improve electricity infrastructure, promote renewable energy adoption, and ensure that energy policies are gender-sensitive and support pro-poor growth.

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Navigating Nigeria's path to sustainable energy: Challenges, opportunities, and global insight

IF 7.9 2区工程技术 Q1 ENERGY & FUELS

Energy Strategy Reviews

Pub Date : 2025-04-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.esr.2025.101707

Yan Shao , Zhe Yang , Yongbing Yan , Yuan Yan , Feruza Israilova , Nawal Khan , Liu Chang

This study investigates strategies for achieving sustainable road transport in Nigeria, focusing on energy conservation and emission reduction (ECER) through technological innovation, organizational management, and energy system upgrades. Nigeria, the largest economy in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), faces significant energy challenges, including a growing demand for energy, heavy reliance on fossil fuels, and limited penetration of renewable energy sources, which account for less than 10 % of the total energy mix. This research identifies the pressing need to transition to sustainable energy systems in the road transport sector, a key contributor to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The study addresses the gap in policy and technical frameworks for integrating intelligent transportation systems (ITS) and renewable energy solutions in Nigeria's road transport sector. A multi-method approach, including literature review, data analysis, and scenario modeling, was used to evaluate the impacts of advanced vehicle technologies, organizational management practices, and alternative energy systems, such as hydrogen and biogas. Key findings reveal the potential of smart traffic systems, flexible fuel substitution programs, and urban planning reforms to optimize economic and environmental outcomes. This research underscores the significance of technological advancements, efficient management practices, and a transition to renewable energy to meet Nigeria's growing transport demands sustainably. The results provide actionable insights for policymakers to enhance Nigeria's sustainable transport frameworks, contributing to the global agenda for reducing GHG emissions and achieving energy security in SSA.

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