Economic, Financial, and Social Aspects of Green Energy Transformation
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "C: Energy Economics and Policy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 February 2025 | Viewed by 1367
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Interests: environmental economics and management; environmental externalities; environmental impact assessment; environmental financing and funds; air pollution management and control; solid waste management; sustainable development; energy economics
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Interests: sustainable economics; energy economics; green economics and environmental economics; renewable energy sources investments; climate change policies; environmental financing
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Special Issue Information
Dear colleagues,
Even if fossil sources continue to be available for more than a few decades, abandoning them is necessary due to the current climate threats. At the same time, technology development enables the broader and more profitable use of renewable energy sources. Replacing energy sources with renewables is a complex process, considering the wide variety of energy systems. However, this requires adaptation not only on the side of energy generation but, above all, on the side of the entities using energy.
The scale, direction and pace of the energy transformation depend to a large extent on solving economic, financial and social problems. This requires their identification, analysis and evaluation. On this basis, proposals for solving these problems can be formulated and action scenarios can be built. The focus on energy and resource efficiency, decarbonisation, electrification, sector integration and decentralisation of the energy system is essential for combining such diverse problems.
It is therefore worth dedicating a Special Issue in Energies to these problems. They concern many specific issues and challenges that need to be faced. Among them are the following:
- The effectiveness of the early discontinuation of the production and use of existing forms of energy,
- Value chains built on new forms of energy,
- The efficiency of investments in new generation sources,
- The costs and benefits of improving energy efficiency,
- Demand management and periodic reduction in energy consumption,
- Sector integration and decentralisation of the energy system,
- Business models implementing and supporting the energy transformation,
- Collective energy schemes,
- Development of prosumption and sharing models related to the generation and use of energy,
- Strengthening the position of citizens and communities in the energy system,
- Project financing models,
- Public support for energy transformation,
- Reducing energy poverty,
- Social aspects of green energy transformation
We encourage you to conduct research and publish your results in a Special Issue of the journal Energies.
Prof. Dr. Andrzej Graczyk
Prof. Dr. Alicja Małgorzata Graczyk
Guest Editors
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