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Economia e regolamentazione degli investimenti nelle fonti rinnovabili in Italia: tra vincoli ambientali e politiche locali
Full text linkRegulation and development of the renewable energy sector in Italy reflect the influence of processes that today affect the overall energy sector: institutional changes, liberalization, environmental policies, trends in international competition and social acceptability of RES plants development. This is an area of the energy sector where a significant reformulation of policies is underway both in terms of objectives and instruments at various institutional levels, European, national and local.
In the framework listed above, the work has dealt with the policies aimed at the promotion of sustainable development at local level, investments in renewable energy sources and technologies for energy efficiency improvement, with an analysis of some specific actions. In particular, the following issues are discussed:
- The methods for analysing investments in renewable energy plants;
- A tool to evaluate the cost of investments to improve energy efficiency;
- A model to evaluate the economic and financial feasibility of RES investmentsLa regolazione e lo sviluppo del settore delle fonti rinnovabili in Italia riflettono l’influenza dei processi che oggi incidono sull’evoluzione del settore energetico: assetto istituzionale, liberalizzazione, politiche ambientali, tendenze dei mercati internazionali e accettabilità sociale degli impianti. Si tratta di un ambito del settore energetico per il quale è in corso un’importante riformulazione delle politiche sia in termini di obiettivi sia di strumenti a vari livelli istituzionali: europeo, nazionale e locale.
Alla luce dei fattori elencati sopra, e nell’ottica di promozione dello sviluppo sostenibile a livello locale, sono stati valutati alcuni aspetti relativi agli investimenti nelle fonti rinnovabili di energia e nelle tecnologie per il miglioramento dell’efficienza energetica. In particolare, s’illustrano nel dettaglio le modalità di analisi degli investimenti in impianti per la generazione elettrica da FER e si da un quadro informativo di base sul costo di alcuni investimenti per il miglioramento dell’efficienza energetica; vengono analizzate le politiche d’incentivazione di tali investimenti e ne viene valutata la fattibilità con la messa a punto di un modello originale di analisi tecnico-economico-finanziario-fiscale
Il costo dell'elettricità prodotta da fonti rinnovabili in Italia: una stima dei costi delle inefficienze del sistema
No full textECONOMIA DELLE FONTI DI ENERGIA E DELL'AMBIENT
Renewable electricity costs in Italy: an estimation of the cost of operating in an uncertain world
Full text linkThe promotion of Renewable Energy Sources (RES) is a priority
of the agenda of governments in most European countries. The target of
renewable energy for Italy, calculated as a share of renewable generation to
gross final energy consumption, is set at 17% for 2020 (from 5.2% in 2005).
With particular reference to renewable electricity (RES-e) in Italy, its
development is often burdened by costs not strictly related to the plant
construction and operation, but rather to the risks associated with its
development, which lead to indirect costs. This paper therefore focuses on
the costs related to the risks perceived by investors in the sector in Italy and the
link between risk and success of the incentive system, estimating the additional
cost of capital which investors pay when operating in a risky environment.
Some policy indications are given to reduce the non-technology-related costs
for a faster and more efficient growth of the sector
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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