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Distributional justice, effectiveness, and costs of current and alternative solar PV incentive schemes in Switzerland

Like many other countries, Switzerland offers various incentives to promote residential solar PV, but not all households have equal access to them. Using a microsimulation approach based on merged data from the Swiss Household Budget Survey and Household E ...

2024

How We Use Wikipedia: Studying Readers' Behavior with Navigation Traces

Tiziano Piccardi

In the information age, the Web and the growing global connectivity drastically simplified our access to information. Learning and fact-checking from online resources is nowadays part of our daily routine. Studying the dynamic associated with online conten ...

EPFL2022

To pool or not to pool: Equilibrium, pricing and regulation

Kenan Zhang

We study a transportation network company (TNC) that offers on-demand solo and pooling e-hail services in an aggregate mobility service market, while competing with transit for passengers. The market equilibrium is established based on a spatial driver–pas ...

2021

Case study of rotor lifting in a pumped storage hydropower plant in Norway

Giovanni De Cesare, Daniel Kevin Pace

The Duge pumped storage power plant in Norway currently experiences a problem with rotor-lifting. One of the two vertical 100 MW units lifts up off its bearings when operated above a certain load. The vertical forces on the units have been known to be marg ...

2020

Policy, program and project in social housing of the welfare state: A comparative analysis of postwar Mediterranean models in translation of existenzminimum

Sila Karatas

About 20 years after CIAM 2, themes of minimum dwelling for working class were put into large-scale practice for building welfare state and social democracy in all countries that participated in the Marshall Plan and postwar phenomena of transnational and ...

2019

An integrated approach to design site specific distributed electrical hubs combining optimization, multi-criterion assessment and decision making

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Dasaraden Mauree, Amarasinghage Tharindu Dasun Perera, Vahid Moussavi Nik

An integrated approach is presented in this study to design electrical hubs combining optimization, multi-criterion assessment and decision making. Levelized Energy Cost (LEC), Initial Capital Cost (ICC), Grid Integration Level (GI), Levelized CO2 emission ...

Elsevier2017

Centralized and Decentralized Electricity Markets: Assessment of Operational and Economic Aspects

Farzaneh Abbaspourtorbati, Anneta Matenli

This paper presents the comparison of decentralized and centralized market settings in terms of economic efficiencies, particularly price signals, and operating aspects. The decentralized dispatch consists of an energy auction separated from a contingency ...

Ieee2016

The computational structure of environmental life cycle costing

Vincent Moreau

Existing computational methods for life cycle costing (LCC) are few and appeared inconsistent with the very definition of LCC. This article improves the common matrix-based approach in life cycle assessment as applied to LCC, correcting previous errors. Re ...

Springer Heidelberg2015

Holistic Approach to Sufficient, Reliable and Efficient Electricity Supply in Hospitals of Developing Countries: Cameroon Case Study

Nicolas Crettenand

While health technology has shown constant improvements in industrialized countries, developing countries have not been able to take full advantage of this evolution, partly because of unstable power supplies. According to a World Health Organization study ...

Spring2015

Valorization of sugarcane biorefinery residues using supercritical water gasification: A case study and perspectives

François Maréchal, Adriano Viana Ensinas, Alberto Mian

The present study evaluates the use of supercritical fluid technology, particularly supercritical water gasification (SCWG), to add value to residues from a sugarcane biorefinery that produces first and second generation ethanol. This case study aims at el ...

2015

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