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Youth as energy citizens or passive actors? A critical review of energy …

A critical review of the youth programs offered and supported by intergovernmental organizations and energy agencies is needed to ensure their inclusiveness and effectiveness [71], coupled with fundamental research focused on youth's immediate and longer-term goals, aspirations, and expectations about their engagement …

Evaporation-driven electrokinetic energy conversion: Critical review

This critical review is an attempt to combine the (largely available) knowledge from these fields to produce a coherent picture of capillarity-driven electrokinetic harvesting of energy from evaporation using nanoporous materials.

Review of critical materials for the energy transition, …

Highlights. •. There are no generally agreed criticality concepts and list of critical materials. •. The suggested global criticality concept addresses the availability …

Energy justice revisited: A critical review on the …

Energy justice has reached a critical mass of contributions in recent years; nevertheless, different definitions of what energy justice is, appear to be competing, or at least they seem to be devoid of a theoretical effort at systematization of the concepts, an effort which could find a common theoretical root underpinning the current energy justice …

'Decarbonizing Europe' A critical review on positive energy …

Positive Energy Districts are gaining importance as climate-neutral living strategies. • PEDs arose from (net) zero energy buildings to meet the energy balance. • This work is a critical angle on PED reviews unveiling the gaps in human-centric solutions.

Critical review of energy planning models for the …

While numerous reviews have assumed a holistic perspective of energy planning [15, 17], this work focuses on a sub-class of energy system models, in the attempt to fill the gaps identified in the analysis of existing literature (cf. Section 2). In this context, only open-source tools able to optimise investment decisions were examined.

Public engagement with offshore renewable energy: A critical review …

Offshore renewable energy, including offshore wind, tidal and wave energy, has sometimes been represented as opposition‐free alternatives to controversial technologies such as onshore wind turbines, and has received increasing attention from social scientists in recent years. A fragmented literature has emerged investigating public …

A Critical Review of IoT in Sustainable Energy Systems

IoT solutions are expected to revolutionise business markets by promoting disruption in the form of disruptive innovations that will promote sustainability, since cloud applications are accessed by both public and private sectors. In recent days, the need for an uninterrupted energy supply has become a challenge. Optimal and continuous demand ...

2023 Critical Materials Assessment

Section 7002(a)(2) of the Energy Act of 2020 (codified at 30 U.S.C. § 1606(a)(2)) authorizes the Secretary of Energy to determine critical materials according to the following statutory definition of a "critical material": Any non-fuel mineral, element, substance, or material that the Secretary of Energy determines: (i) has a high risk of

Critical review of energy storage systems

This review article critically highlights the latest trends in energy storage applications, both cradle and grave. Several energy storage applications along with their possible future prospects have also been discussed in this article. Comparison between these energy storage mediums, as well as their limitations were also thoroughly discussed.

A Critical Review on Methodologies for the Energy …

A Review of Energy Optimization Modelling Tools for the Decarbonisation of Wastewater Treatment Plants. J. Clean. Prod. 2021, 279, 123811. [Google Scholar] Hamawand, I. Energy Consumption in Water/Wastewater Treatment Industry—Optimisation Potentials. ... Adriana Del Borghi, and Erica Gagliano. 2024. "A …

A critical review of energy storage technologies for …

A critical review of energy storage technologies for microgrids Howev er, they hav e a lower LCOS o wing to their improved operational performance where there is a deeper DoD, and extended life ...

Data centers cooling: A critical review of techniques, …

The practicality and energy-saving potential of many types of direct natural cooling units in data centers was examined and introduced a thorough cooling load assessment process (Ham et al., 2015). The Energy savings rate was discovered to be between 47.5 % and 67.2 % when compared to the efficiency of traditional DC cooling …

U.S. Department of Energy Releases 2023 Critical …

The finalized critical materials list will inform eligibility for federal clean energy tax provisions. U.S. Department of Energy Releases 2023 Critical Materials Assessment to Evaluate Supply Chain Security for Clean Energy Technologies | …

Critical review of the energy-water-carbon nexus in cities

A review of energy-for-water data in energy-water nexus publications. C. Chini Lauren E. Excell A. Stillwell. Environmental Science, Engineering. 2020. Published literature on the energy-water nexus continues to increase, yet much of the supporting data, particularly regarding energy-for-water, remains obscure or inaccessible.

Integration of IoT in building energy infrastructure: A critical review

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. Volume 174, March 2023, 113121. Integration of IoT in building energy infrastructure: A critical review on challenges and solutions. ... Energy efficiency is one of the most critical aspects for a CB to attain operational sustainability. IoT can significantly assist CBs to incorporate energy-efficient ...

Critical review of energy planning models for the …

Critical review of energy planning models for the sustainable development at company level - ScienceDirect. Volume 49, September 2023, 101136. Review. Critical …

Near-infrared absorbing glazing for energy-efficient …

1. Introduction. From 1970–2020, the global mean temperature anomaly went from ∼0.2 to ∼1.2 °C [1], verging the irreversible level of 1.5 °C [2].To address global environmental issues and achieve sustainable development, energy conservation and emission reduction became an urgent mission in all areas [3], and buildings are of …

Key Questions for Critical Decision Approval

The SRP is a working document developed in a series of individual Review Modules, which address key functional areas of Project Management, Engineering and Design, Nuclear and Facility Safety, Worker Safety, Environment, Security, and Quality Assurance, grouped per each specific CD point. The technical foundation for the SRP encompasses key ...

Review of critical metal dynamics to 2050 for 48 elements

A review of 88 critical metal outlook studies covering 48 elements is conducted. 546 data points indicating global critical metal demand to 2030 and 2050 are provided. In the examined studies, social and environmental implications induced by demand growth are rarely quantified. Few models incorporate component reuse and …

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

The mission of Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews is to communicate the most interesting and relevant critical thinking in renewable and sustainable energy in …

Dissolution, migration, and deposition of transition metal …

Unlike the revolutionary advances in the anodes of lithium-ion batteries from Li intercalation materials to Li alloy and/or conversion reaction materials, the development of the cathode is still dominated by the Li intercalation compounds. Transition metal ions are essential in these cathodes as the rapid re 2018 Energy and Environmental Science HOT Articles

Review of critical material studies

Some studies focused on particular technologies, e.g. the U.S. Department of Energy (2011b). They evaluated critical metals for clean energy. Some studies are for certain types of materials, e.g. The criticality of copper family (Graedel et al., 2012) and fours nuclear energy metals (Harper et al., 2015) were analysed by Yale University. …

Political power and renewable energy futures: A critical review

A critical factor for energy democracy is the development model through which these technologies are deployed. The energy democracy movement recognizes that the choice of different scales of deployment, from the largest megaprojects to the smallest community solar project, potentially lead to very different renewable energy futures …

Hydrogen energy systems: A critical review of technologies

The review procedure and the criteria for screening are shown in Fig. 17. Based on the above review procedure, the yearly evolution of publications investigating different hydrogen power system applications from 2000 to date and the percentage distribution is shown in Fig. 18. It is noted that the researches on hydrogen-based …

Strengthening Resilience in the Energy Critical …

The resilience assessment of critical infrastructure, especially in the energy sector, has received considerable attention due to the high level of interest in this issue. However, the issue of …

Review energy literacy: A critical review and a …

A review of the literature resulted in the identification of four types of energy literacy. These include device energy literacy, which reflects knowledge about the energy consumption of domestic appliances, action energy literacy, constituting one's ability to judge the impact of actions to save energy in one's home, financial energy literacy, …

Political power and renewable energy futures: A critical review

This conceptual review explores the relationship between concentrated or distributed renewable energy and political power with the aim to assess tensions associated with an energy democracy agenda and draw out the implications for democratizing renewable energy development in practice. This study finds that energy democracy is closely tied …

Review Articles | Nature Energy

Review Article 09 Jan 2024. Energy storage solutions to decarbonize electricity through enhanced capacity expansion modelling. Capacity expansion …

2023 Critical Materials Assessment

authorizes the Secretary of Energy to determine critical materials. 1. This Critical Materials (CM) Assessment report continues the DOE's systemic analyses of materials criticality, …