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India’s energy revolution : Insights into the becoming of a global power
No full textIndia is the third-largest emitter of greenhouse gases, which makes it an important player whose climate mitigation actions and inactions are closely scrutinised. This book studies developments in India’s energy system from a governance perspective. It presents a unique compilation and synthesis of research findings that capture achievements, shortcomings, and persistent and transient challenges of India’s transition towards a net-zero economy by 2070. The book grounds its analysis in domestically formulated goals and reflects on dynamics at the structural level of India’s multi-scalar innovation system, by highlighting the influencing factors of energy system status and change. It presents the perspectives and positions of different actor groups, studies the market and business, and discusses cases influenced by existing or changing institutions across the whole spectrum of energy resources from fossil to non-fossil fuels and respective technologies. The volume will be useful for students and researchers in energy governance, energy policy and economics, socio-technical transition studies, energy systems engineering, sustainable development, and environmental studies. It will also be of interest to policymakers and investors
India's Energy (R)evolution
No full textFossil fuels started to rapidly expand since the 1950s, taking up roughly 80 per cent of global energy consumption in 2019 (Ritchie, 2019). Today, the speed at which the global energy system must be restructured and unlocked from its fossil fuel dependence is nothing short of a revolutionary endeavour. In fact, to remain within the 1.5°C temperature increase above pre-industrial levels – determined to maintain our ecological integrity – would mean bringing down global anthropogenic Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions to zero by 2032 (Figueres et al., 2017). As a developing country covered by the principle of Common but Differentiated Responsibilities and Respective Capabilities, India has legitimately become the third-largest emitter of GHGs. With that, India has also become an important player whose climate mitigation actions and inactions are closely scrutinised. India’s economic growth, industrialisation efforts, population growth, and urban drift put the country at the global top of the International Energy Agency’s (IEA’s) energy demand growth projections until 2040 (IEA, 2021). India’s energy use has doubled since the year 2000 and to meet the expected electricity demand of the next 20 years, it will need to install an additional capacity of roughly 850 gigawatts (GW) – the magnitude of the European Union’s (EU’s) power system
Business model innovations for electric vehicle adoption in India
No full textClimate change and local air pollution pose a major challenge for governments and companies across the world. To mitigate the risks of these challenges, they are making efforts to redesign and support new business models. This research chapter looks closely at the emerging electric vehicle (EV) ecosystem and analyses the business model innovations (BMIs) adopted by Indian companies. The research is based on secondary data from those companies that are located in states that have been active in supporting electric mobility. Each business case selected fulfils at least one aspect of Weiller and Neely’s multidimensional framework (customer, business, financial, and strategic advantages) for EV adoption. In addition, we are adopting a circular economy perspective where a co-benefits approach drives the BMI presented. Findings emphasise the mutually reinforcing and stabilising effects of inter-industry-cum-government partnerships in the EV ecosystem value creation prior to and despite SARS-COVID-19-related setbacks in EV deployment
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
Gas-based economy : A road towards a prosperous and cleaner India
No full textThis chapter is about the status quo of the Indian gas sector. It contains a discussion and critical reflection upon the various challenges faced by the industry, including the regulatory shortcomings, ecologic concerns, and economic constraints that block the road towards a gas-based energy system in India. On the basis of many years of experience in the Indian gas industry and by drawing lessons from more mature gas markets in both Europe and North America, this chapter presents a road map for a cleaner and more prosperous Indian economy. Key reforms required would include liberalising the energy and gas sector, supporting the development of the transportation network, land and labour reforms, systemic changes in governing and regulatory bodies, and a market-based mechanism for gas price discovery. All this would ensure that gas as an energy source becomes affordable, available, and accessible, while helping in achieving targets on greenhouse gas emission reduction by which contributing to sustainable development
CIGRE' Task Force C6.04.02: Developing benchmark models for integrating distributed energy resources
No full textTask Force C6.04.01 has been formed in order to elaborate recommendations for technical rules to be integrated in the national distribution grid codes and for the development of international standards, in order to keep a safe operation of power systems with reasonable and economically acceptable requirements for dispersed generation of various types. Emphasis has been placed on criteria that put unnecessary restrictions on DG penetration. The Task Force has produced a brochure [1] with the following contents:
1. Review of the current connection criteria and protection practices applied in various countries for DGs, with special emphasis on the case of wind generators/wind farm integration.
2. Review of existing international standards.
3. Description of simplified methods applied to DG connection in various countries
4. Identification of methods to meet the new requirements.
5. Formulation of recommendations
The Task Force comprises 21 members from 15 countries contributing the experience from France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, USA, Canada, Japan, Belgium, Greece, Portugal, Norway, the Netherlands, Croatia and Saudi Arabia
Variations on the Author
No full text“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
No full textWe 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
No full textWe 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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