Current status and future prospects of renewable and sustainable energy in North America: Progress and challenges

A Azarpour, O Mohammadzadeh, N Rezaei… - Energy Conversion and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Energy is an important drive for the economic development and social growth. The energy
demand has remarkably escalated due to the technological developments in various …

A review on solar energy use in industries

S Mekhilef, R Saidur, A Safari - Renewable and sustainable energy reviews, 2011 - Elsevier
Presently, solar energy conversion is widely used to generate heat and produce electricity. A
comparative study on the world energy consumption released by International Energy …

Does renewable energy technological innovation matter for green total factor productivity? Empirical evidence from Chinese provinces

J Wang, X Dong, K Dong - Sustainable Energy Technologies and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Renewable energy technological innovation (RETI) will be a significant way to stimulate the
growth of renewable energy. This paper investigates the effect of RETI on green total factor …

[HTML][HTML] Clean, low-carbon but corrupt? Examining corruption risks and solutions for the renewable energy sector in Mexico, Malaysia, Kenya and South Africa

BK Sovacool - Energy Strategy Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
A decarbonized global energy sector is expected to need cumulative investments in the tens
to hundreds of trillions of dollars between now and 2050. Due to its size, the current climate …

Technical and economic performance analysis of large flat plate solar collector coupled air source heat pump heating system

J Li, C Qu, C Li, X Liu, V Novakovic - Energy and Buildings, 2022 - Elsevier
In rural areas of China, clean energy heating in winter is important for coal replacement.
Winter temperatures in northwest China are usually below 0° Celsius and the heating …

Potency of solar energy applications in Indonesia

NA Handayani, D Ariyanti - International Journal of Renewable …, 2012 - ijred.cbiore.id
Currently, 80% of conventional energy is used to fulfill general public's needs andindustries.
The depletion of oil and gas reserves and rapid growth in conventional energyconsumption …

[HTML][HTML] Application of solar thermal collectors for energy consumption in public buildings–An updated technical review

LA Omeiza, M Abid, A Dhanasekaran… - Journal of Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
The daily energy demand in public buildings has been on the rise, partly due to the intensive
use of building energy-comfort technologies. Hot water production, space heating and air …

Intelligent controllers and optimization algorithms for building energy management towards achieving sustainable development: challenges and prospects

K Parvin, MSH Lipu, MA Hannan, MA Abdullah… - IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Buildings account for a significant amount of energy consumption leading to the issues of
global emissions and climate change. Thus, energy management in a building is …

Analysis of distributed-generation photovoltaic deployment, installation time and cost, market barriers, and policies in China

F Zhang, H Deng, R Margolis, J Su - Energy Policy, 2015 - Elsevier
Beginning in 2013, China's photovoltaic (PV) market-development strategy witnessed a
series of policy changes aimed at making distributed-generation PV (DG PV) development …

Current status of ground-source heat pumps in China

W Yang, J Zhou, W Xu, G Zhang - Energy policy, 2010 - Elsevier
As a renewable energy technology, the ground-source heat pump (GSHP) technologies
have increasingly attracted world-wide attention due to their advantages of energy efficiency …