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Nicolas Crettenand
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Holistic Approach to Sufficient, Reliable and Efficient Electricity Supply in Hospitals of Developing Countries: Cameroon Case Study
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 ...
Spring2015Institutional structure reform of the Cameroon electricity sector
Cameroon’s electricity sector is undergoing significant changes. Before 1974, electricity was supplied by many different companies until they were nationalized and merged into a single, vertically integrated company that had responsibility for production, ...
2014The alignment between institutions and technology in network industries
Matthias Finger, Nicolas Crettenand
Network industries, such as electricity, railways and air transport, are very complex technical, economic, and political systems in which the alignment between technology and institutions has a significant impact on performance. This alignment has been stu ...
2013The Facilitation of Mini and Small Hydropower in Switzerland
The electricity sector in Switzerland is undergoing important changes following the liberalisation process and the facilitation of renewable energy technologies. Furthermore, the phasing out of nuclear power will increase the demand for new domestic electr ...
EPFL2012Small storage and pumped storage plants in Switzerland
The facilitation of renewable energy technologies should also consider energy storage says Nicolas Crettenand as he looks at the potential for small storage and pumped storage plants in Switzerland. ...
2012Stockage d’énergie et petite hydraulique
Matthias Finger, Hans Björn Püttgen, Nicolas Crettenand
Les petites centrales hydrauliques d’accumulation et à pompage-turbinage pourraient contribuer à la production d’électricité décentralisée de pointe et de réglage, ainsi qu’au stockage d’énergie décentralisé. Le potentiel technique en Suisse est suffisamme ...
2012Small hydropower storage and pump-storage schemes for decentralised energy supply
This paper aims to explore the technical and institutional feasibility of small hydropower storage and pump-storage schemes in Switzerland. Within the European and Swiss context of the facilitation of renewable energy technologies, whereby solar and wind p ...
2011Pumped-storage with small hydropower – an option?
Philippe Heller, Nicolas Crettenand, Benoît Mailler
This paper contributes towards exploring the technical and institutional feasibility of small hydropower storage and pumped-storage schemes in Switzerland. Within the European and Swiss context of the facilitation of renewable energy technologies, which in ...
2011Pump-storage small hydropower as an example of co-evolution between institutions and technologies
The aim of this paper is to explore the storage and pump-storage application of small hydropower as an example of co-evolution between institutions and technologies. The context of the research is given by the liberalisation of the electricity sector and t ...
intersentia2011Small hydropower - the potential of storage and pump-storage schemes in Switzerland
The paper aims to evaluate the technical potential and the institutional feasibility of small storage and pump-storage hydropower (
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