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Sustainable Energy Planning

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 October 2020) | Viewed by 2275

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Department of Planning, Aalborg University, Rendsburggade 14, 9000 Aalborg, Denmark
Interests: energy system analysis; feasibility studies; public regulation and technological change

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Department of Planning, Aalborg University, 9000 Aalborg, Denmark
Interests: smart energy systems; energy markets; wind power integration into energy systems; energy system analyses; district heating

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Dear Colleagues,

To combat global warming, the CO2 emissions from energy systems worldwide must be reduced. However, the necessary transition of the energy systems also needs to be carried out in a sustainable way, to ensure that the transition is long-lived. This highlights the importance of sustainable energy planning. Sustainable energy planning is not only a question of which technologies will bring about a sustainable development in the energy sector, but also equally important are the organizational aspects surrounding these technologies, e.g., ownership models and regulatory issues. These aspects need to be understood and analyzed on a local, regional, national, and supranational level. Papers submitted to this Special Issue should address issues related to sustainable energy planning.

Prof. Henrik Lund
Prof. Peter Sorknæs
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Keywords

  • energy planning
  • sustainable
  • energy system
  • renewable energy
  • heating
  • electricity
  • transport
  • cooling
  • energy system modeling
  • energy markets
  • ownership models

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Price Elasticity of Heat Demand in South Korean Manufacturing Sector: An Empirical Investigation
by Hyo-Jin Kim, Jae-Sung Paek and Seung-Hoon Yoo
Sustainability 2019, 11(21), 6144; https://doi.org/10.3390/su11216144 - 4 Nov 2019
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Heat is a crucial input supplied in the form of steam or hot water to industrial production of South Korea. Estimating the demand function for heat in the manufacturing sector is all the more important a task in terms of policy because heat [...] Read more.
Heat is a crucial input supplied in the form of steam or hot water to industrial production of South Korea. Estimating the demand function for heat in the manufacturing sector is all the more important a task in terms of policy because heat consumption in the manufacturing sector is increasing because using heat directly as a fuel can reduce the air pollutants emissions and save energy when compared with using electricity, which is secondary energy. Thus, this article tries to estimate the demand function for industrial heat in the manufacturing sector of South Korea using cross-sectional data for analyzing the influence of manufacturing firms’ characteristics. To this end, 257 observations collected from a nationwide survey of manufacturing firms in 2017 are used and analyzed. As a robust approach, the least absolute deviations estimation method is applied to obtain the demand function. The results show that the price elasticity and sales amount elasticity of the industrial heat demand are estimated to be −0.8476 and 1.0144, respectively, which are statistically significant at the 1% level. Furthermore, the economic benefits of industrial heat consumption are computed to be 1.59 times as great as the price of heat. The results of this study can be utilized in policy planning, making, and evaluation. Full article
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