Search for dissertations about: "energy inefficiency"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 16 swedish dissertations containing the words energy inefficiency.
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1. Essays on energy efficiency, environmental regulation and labor demand in Swedish industry
Abstract : Paper [I] Energy efficiency improvement (EEI) benefits the climate and matters for energy security. The potential emission and energy savings due to EEI may however not fully materialize due to the rebound effect. READ MORE
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2. Improving the efficiency of forest fuel supply chains
Abstract : Forest biomass has gained much interest as a resource for renewable energy production world-wide. In Sweden, easily accessible secondary forest fuels, such as by-products from the conventional forest industry, are today already fully utilised. READ MORE
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3. Energy demand management in selected African countries
Abstract : This thesis contains five empirical papers that contribute to the energy demand management literature on Africa. It investigates the following policy issues – business cycle and energy conservation, government fuel subsidies and energy efficiency, economic growth and environmental quality, structural effects in parameters, the transition between energy efficiency and energy inefficiency, forecast of energy demand, shifts in demand behaviour, and the persistence profile of energy demand to shocks – using data from five countries: Algeria, Nigeria, South Africa, Cameroon and Ghana. READ MORE
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4. Essays on energy demand and efficiency analysis
Abstract : This thesis consists of four papers focusing on the issues of energy demand and efficiency analysis in the agricultural and environmental sectors. The first paper examined the long-run relationship among rainfall distribution, electricity consumption and economic growth (GDP) in Ethiopia using time series data between 1981 and 2014. READ MORE
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5. Energy-efficient resource provisioning for cloud data centers
Abstract : Energy efficiency has become a fundamental concern in data centers, raising issues to all energy-related costs, including capital costs, operating expenses, and environmental impact. Energy inefficiency is mainly caused by unoptimized use of energy by sub-components of these data centers. READ MORE