Pub Date : 2024-03-11DOI: 10.3389/fsuep.2024.1344166
Bingjie Xu, Boqiang Lin
In the context of the “dual carbon” strategy, how to leverage green finance to promote China's wind power industry is a hot topic. Unlike existing literature, this article uses a nonparametric additive model to investigate the impact and mechanism of green finance on wind power development. Research has found that green finance has an inverted U-shaped nonlinear impact on wind power development, indicating that green finance has a more prominent contribution to the wind power industry in the early stages. Further mechanism research indicates that green finance affects the wind power industry through foreign direct investment and green technology innovation. Specifically, with the relaxation of foreign direct investment conditions in the energy sector, the role of foreign direct investment in promoting the wind power industry more prominent in the later stages. In the early stages, government support was greater, and green technology patents grew rapidly, driving green technology innovation to have a more significant impact on the wind power industry. In addition, the impact of fiscal decentralization, wind power prices, and environmental regulations on the wind power industry also exhibits significant nonlinear characteristics. This article helps to comprehensively understand the mechanism and impact of green finance on wind power development, and provides a reliable basis for optimizing green finance policy and effectively promoting wind power.
在 "双碳 "战略背景下，如何利用绿色金融促进中国风电产业发展是一个热门话题。与现有文献不同，本文采用非参数加法模型研究绿色金融对风电发展的影响和机制。研究发现，绿色金融对风电发展具有倒 U 型的非线性影响，表明绿色金融在早期阶段对风电产业的贡献更为突出。进一步的机制研究表明，绿色金融通过外商直接投资和绿色技术创新对风电产业产生影响。具体而言，随着能源领域外商直接投资条件的放宽，外商直接投资对风电产业的促进作用在后期更为突出。而在早期阶段，政府支持力度较大，绿色技术专利增长迅速，推动绿色技术创新对风电产业的影响更为显著。此外，财政分权、风电价格和环保法规对风电产业的影响也呈现出显著的非线性特征。本文有助于全面了解绿色金融对风电发展的作用机制和影响，为优化绿色金融政策、有效促进风电发展提供可靠依据。
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Pub Date : 2024-03-04DOI: 10.3389/fsuep.2024.1343339
Guofeng Sun, Yan Bai, Zhiyi Zhang
Life prediction significantly influences the reliability of LED light sources. While high-power LED light sources theoretically offer a lifespan of up to 100,000 h, irreversible damage to components leads to light failure, substantially reducing their actual lifespan. Consequently, accurate life prediction is pivotal for manufacturers to cut costs and enhance economic efficiency. This necessity aligns with the interests of communities, governments, and consumers. Currently, the most extensively employed prediction methods are based on traditional physical models and data-driven approaches. The focal point of current research lies in realizing model fusion, presenting both a hotspot and a challenge. To elucidate the relationships, advantages, and disadvantages of different algorithms and establish the groundwork for LED life prediction algorithm development, this paper first introduces material properties and the light decay model of high-power LED light sources. Subsequently, it discusses the principles and methods of the physical model concerning light source reliability. The paper also presents a review and comparison of recent domestic and foreign light source life prediction models. Finally, it provides insights into the expected future development trends in life prediction.
寿命预测在很大程度上影响着 LED 光源的可靠性。虽然大功率 LED 光源理论上可提供长达 100,000 小时的使用寿命，但元件不可逆转的损坏会导致光衰，从而大大缩短实际使用寿命。因此，准确的寿命预测对制造商降低成本和提高经济效益至关重要。这种必要性符合社区、政府和消费者的利益。目前，最广泛使用的预测方法是基于传统物理模型和数据驱动的方法。当前研究的重点在于实现模型融合，这既是热点也是难点。为了阐明不同算法之间的关系和优缺点，为 LED 寿命预测算法的开发奠定基础，本文首先介绍了大功率 LED 光源的材料特性和光衰模型。随后，本文讨论了与光源可靠性有关的物理模型的原理和方法。本文还对近期国内外光源寿命预测模型进行了回顾和比较。最后，对寿命预测的未来发展趋势进行了展望。
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Pub Date : 2023-11-16DOI: 10.3389/fsuep.2023.1203517
Eric O'Shaughnessy, G. Barbose, Alexandria M Grayson, Isa Ferrall-Wolf, Deborah Sunter
Household decisions to adopt rooftop solar photovoltaics are partly driven by social influence. Previous research on solar adoption influence has focused on influence among residential peers. Here, we expand the framework of solar adoption influence by exploring the influence of non-residential installations on residential adoption decisions. We use staggered differences-in-differences to estimate non-residential influence effects using a large data sample of residential adoptions. We also critically evaluate prevailing frameworks for solar adoption influence. We find that non-residential installations are associated with accelerated residential adoption rates, on the order of 0.4 additional residential adoptions per quarter per non-residential installation. We show that non-residential systems exert a continuous, long-term influence on residential adoption decisions. We explore separate results and influence mechanisms for solar installed on commercial buildings, government buildings, and houses of worship. The results suggest that non-residential solar adopters could serve as partners in policies to “seed” residential adoption in underserved communities.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-07DOI: 10.3389/fsuep.2023.1175736
Isa Ferrall-Wolf, A. Gill-Wiehl, D. M. Kammen
Academic literature on energy justice sits at the intersection of a complex ecosystem of technologies, geographies, disciplinary traditions, terminologies, frameworks, theories, and methods. Its recent and rapid growth suggests it is of interest to a large number of stakeholders. However, these same features make aggregation and summarization a considerable undertaking.This article uses advanced bibliometric analytics to synthesize this disparate and varied metadata to characterize trends in the treatment of energy justice in academic literature. The review covers 4,196 articles published between 1983 and 2023 with methods appropriate to the number and diversity of publications and associated subfields.We document distinct uses of similar terminologies across subfields in literature, inequitable ratios of global research compared to absolute levels of energy poverty, and the large but under-recognized contribution of cooking to the energy justice literature.In summarizing this voluminous literature and analyzing thematic changes over time, we provide scaffolding for more detailed reviews to place themselves within the larger interconnected literature network.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-25DOI: 10.3389/fsuep.2023.1231821
Tian Tang, Hyunji Kim
Energy insecurity poses a global challenge with far-reaching social equity and health implications. This paper provides a comprehensive perspective on the relationship between energy insecurity and health outcomes in developed countries. Existing research has identified associations between energy insecurity and various physical and mental health outcomes. Moreover, climate change can exacerbate the adverse health consequences of energy insecurity, disproportionately affecting vulnerable populations. Based on a review of existing literature, this paper identifies several knowledge gaps, proposes future research directions, and discusses data challenges faced by researchers in measuring energy insecurity and assessing the health impacts of existing programs that tackle energy insecurity. Furthermore, the paper highlights the importance of fostering collaboration among different governmental agencies and other sectors to enhance energy insecurity program management and data collection for program evaluation.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-17DOI: 10.3389/fsuep.2023.1180830
C. Curley, P. Aloise-young, Nicky Harrison, C. Xu, G. Duggan, D. Zimmerle
Numerous recent calls have been made for policy design research to embed itself throughout the policy process and explore avenues for matching tools and targets. These calls have argued that policy design research, while emphasizing the content and the choice of design, has been under-leveraged, particularly in exploring rationales for effectiveness. In this paper, we conduct a comparative case study to explore variation in participation rates for two similarly categorized solar policies across two mid-sized cities. In this regard, three contextual factors are examined, including the population characteristics, the existing configuration of policies, and the physical environment, which all contribute to shaping policy effectiveness. We argue that policy design is situated within an explicit context and that without capturing the context, the effectiveness of policies may not translate if diffused.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-16DOI: 10.3389/fsuep.2023.1207675
N. Goyal, Michael Howlett
The target of universal access to affordable, reliable, and modern energy services—key for individual, social, and economic well-being—is unlikely to be achieved by 2030 based on the current trend. Public policy will likely need to play a key role in accelerating progress in this regard. Although perspectives from the field of policy studies can support this effort, to what extent they have been employed in the literature on energy access remains unclear.This study analyzed nearly 7,500 publications on energy access through a combination of bibliometric review and computational text analysis of their titles and abstracts to examine whether and how they have engaged with public policy perspectives, specifically, policy process research, policy design studies, and the literature on policy evaluation.We discovered 27 themes in the literature on energy access, but public policy was not among them. Subsequently, we identified 23 themes in a new analysis of the 1,751 publications in our original dataset, mentioning “policy” in their title or abstract. However, few of them engaged with public policy, and even those that did comprised a rather small share of the literature. Finally, we extracted phrases pertaining to public policy in this reduced dataset, but found limited mention of terms related to the policy process, policy design, or policy evaluation.While to some extent this might reflect the multidisciplinary nature of the research on energy access, a manual review of the abstracts of select publications corroborated this finding. Also, it shed light on how the literature has engaged with public policy and helped identify opportunities for broadening and deepening policy relevant research on energy access. We conclude that, despite their relevance to energy access, public policy perspectives have infrequently and unevenly informed existing research on the topic, and call on scholars in both communities to address this gap in the future.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-01DOI: 10.3389/fsuep.2023.1204650
Presley K. Wesseh, Jiaying Chen, Boqiang Lin
This paper constructs a comprehensive electricity market model in the context of China, highlighting the deviation caused by neglecting start-up costs from an engineering perspective. The model allows for the abandonment of excess wind and solar power generation, contributing to the achievement of research objectives in scenarios with a high proportion of renewable energy. Our method innovatively integrates fuel and carbon prices, clean energy expansion, and power system marginal prices according to the carbon trading rules of the Chinese power industry, providing a more accurate representation of market dynamics. Findings reveal that neglecting start-up costs can lead to significant biases in electricity prices. We demonstrate that the marginal price sometimes deviates from the fluctuation of the real value. While fuel and CO2 prices can be transmitted downstream, the value of new energy must be transmitted through its impact on the marginal unit. This insight is crucial for understanding the “missing money” problem in electricity markets. Based on these findings, we propose policy recommendations. We suggest considering fixed and average costs as pricing benchmarks and utilizing capacity utilization as a signal for demand response to adjust power pricing. Furthermore, we recommend trading different energy types separately in the spot market with different pricing benchmarks to ensure the homogeneity of marginal units.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-19DOI: 10.3389/fsuep.2023.1203520
J. Engel-Cox, Andrew J. Chapman
The global Sustainable Development Goals require meeting multiple objectives on energy, population, economics, and ecosystems. Development and economic growth as defined by current metrics requires energy inputs, yet energy growth can also increase negative impacts on natural systems. To achieve sustainable development goals, policymakers and technologists will need energy system solutions that consider not only cost and efficiency but also population, quality of life, natural ecosystems, and culture that accommodates different starting points and transition timelines of various countries. To explore possible approaches, this perspectives paper summarizes energy in the context of economic growth and population, illustrating concepts through the diverse status and direction of three countries—Japan, the United States, and Bangladesh—as potential views into a post-growth sustainable future. Four fundamental questions on long-term energy development are identified, related to optimal energy use per capita, sustainable global energy demand, managing an energy transition with stable population, and the need for generalizable approaches across countries.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-11DOI: 10.3389/fsuep.2023.1204176
Rebecca E. Ciez
Providing access to good employment opportunities has become a key area of focus to ensure a just energy transition and to ensure that there is sufficient support for the technology transitions necessary for deep decarbonization. However, a societal transition to a decarbonized energy system will impact workers beyond those involved in energy resource extraction and energy production. Workers involved in manufacturing, especially those working in manufacturing industries that are energy- and emissions-intensive may face additional changes as those industries undergo technological changes. While discussions of the quality of jobs have focused on things like compensation, employment terms, and representation, other job dimensions, like the intrinsic characteristics of the work, health and safety, and work–life balance, stand to be directly impacted by technology change and are largely excluded from consideration. As these new technologies are developed and new energy sources are introduced to support manufacturing, we should also consider sociotechnical solutions that balance worker quality of life among other considerations like the utilization of new capital resources. Incorporating considerations across a wider definition of job quality dimensions will help to ensure that there is a sufficient workforce available to meet the demands of a decarbonization transition.
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