Opportunities, barriers and issues with renewable energy development–A discussion

S Sen, S Ganguly - Renewable and sustainable energy reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
Energy has come to be known as a 'strategic commodity'and any uncertainty about its supply
can threaten the functioning of the economy, particularly in developing economies. Every …

Latest progress in hydrogen production from solar water splitting via photocatalysis, photoelectrochemical, and photovoltaic-photoelectrochemical solutions

R Li - Chinese Journal of Catalysis, 2017 - Elsevier
Hydrogen production via solar water splitting is regarded as one of the most promising ways
to utilize solar energy and has attracted more and more attention. Great progress has been …

Energy security measurement–A sustainable approach

M Radovanović, S Filipović, D Pavlović - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2017 - Elsevier
The main objective of this paper is to define а new energy security indicator with the long-
term sustainability and to test it in a sample of 28 European Union countries for the period …

Numerical and experimental investigation on the performance of a photovoltaic thermal collector with parallel plate flow channel under different operating conditions in …

A Nahar, M Hasanuzzaman, NA Rahim - Solar Energy, 2017 - Elsevier
Solar energy is universally accepted as the most potential alternative power source due to
its inexhaustible availability, diverse conversion technology and environmental friendly …

Nanopillar-array architectured PDMS-based triboelectric nanogenerator integrated with a windmill model for effective wind energy harvesting

B Dudem, ND Huynh, W Kim, DH Kim, HJ Hwang… - Nano Energy, 2017 - Elsevier
Triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) is an up-and-coming technology that functions based
on the triboelectrification and electrostatic induction to generate the electricity from various …

Two-dimensional carbon-based nanocomposites for photocatalytic energy generation and environmental remediation applications

S Kumar, A Kumar, A Bahuguna… - Beilstein journal of …, 2017 - beilstein-journals.org
In the pursuit towards the use of sunlight as a sustainable source for energy generation and
environmental remediation, photocatalytic water splitting and photocatalytic pollutant …

Revisiting the role of financial development for energy-growth-trade nexus in BRICS economies

K Ahmed - Energy, 2017 - Elsevier
The paper explores the energy-growth nexus by incorporating the key financial indicators in
case of newly industrializing, BRICS countries. Considering the heterogeneity across the …

Measuring energy security performance within China: Toward an inter-provincial prospective

L Zhang, J Yu, BK Sovacool, J Ren - Energy, 2017 - Elsevier
China has been the world's largest energy consumer and producer for many years, yet while
myriad studies have investigated Chinese performance on energy metrics compared to …

Energy and economic evaluation of green roofs for residential buildings in hot-humid climates

AS Mahmoud, M Asif, MA Hassanain, MO Babsail… - Buildings, 2017 - mdpi.com
Green roofs may be considered a passive energy saving technology that also offer benefits
like environmental friendliness and enhancement of aesthetic and architectural qualities of …

Emission intensive growth and trade in the era of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) integration: An empirical investigation from ASEAN-8

K Ahmed, M Bhattacharya, Z Shaikh, M Ramzan… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper attempts to shed some light on the energy consumption and associated
emissions linking recent trade integration for eight economies in the ASEAN region: Brunei …