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Advances in Low Carbon Technologies and Transition Ⅱ

A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "B: Energy and Environment".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 March 2023) | Viewed by 5700

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Faculty of Economics, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan
Interests: environmental and energy economics; industrial ecology; environment, energy and resource management policy
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Faculty of Economics, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan
Interests: environmental and energy economics; corporate environmental management; productivity analysis; innovation; CO2 emissions reduction
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Special Issue Information

Dear colleagues,

A wide variety of low-carbon technologies and products have already spread in our society. However, policies have not been well implemented to effectively reduce CO2 emissions by promoting low-carbon technologies and products. Demand-side policies focus on maximzing a reduction in consumption-based CO2 emissions through replacing older products with higher CO2 emissions with newer products with lower CO2 emissions, whereas supply-side policies focus on minimizing production-based CO2 emissions on a production possibility frontier through achieving technological change and advancement. This Special Issue focuses on studies targeting specific products (e.g., motor vehicle, refrigerator, etc.) and/or specific technologies (e.g., steel-making technology, power generation technology, etc.) and quantifying CO2 emissions associated with products and technology systems using the reliable inventory database. Thus, this Special Issue welcomes high-quality papers on how policies can contribute to reducing CO2 emissions from consumption- and production-based perspectives.

Prof. Dr. Shigemi Kagawa
Prof. Dr. Hidemichi Fujii
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • policy
  • low-carbon technology
  • low-carbon product
  • product replacement
  • technological change
  • consumption-based CO2 emission
  • production-based CO2 emission
  • inventory database

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Seaports’ Role in Ensuring the Availability of Alternative Marine Fuels—A Multi-Faceted Analysis
by Magdalena Klopott, Marzenna Popek and Ilona Urbanyi-Popiołek
Energies 2023, 16(7), 3055; https://doi.org/10.3390/en16073055 - 27 Mar 2023
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In the effort to decarbonise shipping, a number of measures can be taken, one of which is to switch from conventional to alternative fuels. However, without an active role for seaports in providing adequate bunkering infrastructure for alternative fuels, these targets may not [...] Read more.
In the effort to decarbonise shipping, a number of measures can be taken, one of which is to switch from conventional to alternative fuels. However, without an active role for seaports in providing adequate bunkering infrastructure for alternative fuels, these targets may not be achieved. Hence, the aim of this article is threefold: (1) to provide an overview of some of the emerging alternative fuel technologies that are being used or tested for further use in maritime transport, (2) to analyse the bunkering infrastructure in seaports, and (3) to assess the level of advancement of Polish ports in relation to the bunkering of alternative fuels by ships and to explore the ports’ plans in this regard. To achieve these goals, several research methods were applied: a critical literature review, desk-study research, critical and comparative analyses, and semi-structured interviews with representatives of three major Polish seaports. The research showed that the level of advancement of Polish seaports in the construction of bunkering infrastructure for alternative fuels is relatively low, as they are still in the early stages of conversations with their stakeholders identifying which new fuels should be included in their plans. However, with the growing number of LNG-fuelled ships operating worldwide, Polish ports are being forced to prepare for LNG bunkering; however, it is on a small scale for now. They have to make a decision about what type of fuel their bunkering infrastructures should be for, and this constitutes the subject of a great deal of uncertainty. All this is even challenging when taking into account the fact that shipowners are also struggling to choose alternative fuels for their ships. This uncertainty could be reduced through closer cooperation between ports and shipowners, between individual ports, and between ports and other shipping stakeholders. Unfortunately, there is a noticeable lack of cooperation between Polish ports in this regard, as well as with the relevant government departments. Full article
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CO2 Reduction Potential from Efficiency Improvements in China’s Coal-Fired Thermal Power Generation: A Combined Approach of Metafrontier DEA and LMDI
by Shogo Eguchi
Energies 2022, 15(7), 2430; https://doi.org/10.3390/en15072430 - 25 Mar 2022
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Among the G20 countries, China is the only country to experience an increase in electricity generation from coal-fired thermal power plants from 2019 to 2020. This study aims to develop an analytical framework combining metafrontier data envelopment analysis with the logarithmic mean Divisia [...] Read more.
Among the G20 countries, China is the only country to experience an increase in electricity generation from coal-fired thermal power plants from 2019 to 2020. This study aims to develop an analytical framework combining metafrontier data envelopment analysis with the logarithmic mean Divisia index for a detailed decomposition analysis of ‘mass-based’ energy-related CO2 reduction potential through efficiency improvements in coal-fired thermal power plants in China. The results show that inefficiency in power generation can be largely attributed to differences in the location of power plants and the production scale. Moreover, the impact of regional heterogeneity on the changes in power generation efficiency is more notable for the small–medium power plants in the northeast region than the large power plants in the western region in China. However, when focusing on the mass-based CO2 reduction potential associated with the regional heterogeneity, its positive effects in the western region for the large power plants are 6.2 times larger than that in the northeast region for the small–medium power plants. These results imply that an analysis that focuses only on the efficiency score would ignore the production scale of coal-fired thermal power plants and thus would fail to properly evaluate the environmental impacts associated with efficiency changes. Full article
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A Study on Energy Tax Reform for Carbon Pricing Using an Input-Output Table for the Analysis of a Next-Generation Energy System
by Satoshi Nakano and Ayu Washizu
Energies 2022, 15(6), 2162; https://doi.org/10.3390/en15062162 - 16 Mar 2022
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Carbon pricing, such as a carbon tax, is an invisible hand that leads to the construction of a sustainable low-carbon society, and precise analysis of the impact of carbon pricing on each sector of the economy is indispensable for its design. In this [...] Read more.
Carbon pricing, such as a carbon tax, is an invisible hand that leads to the construction of a sustainable low-carbon society, and precise analysis of the impact of carbon pricing on each sector of the economy is indispensable for its design. In this study, an equilibrium price model based on the 2015 input-output table was used for the analysis of next-generation energy systems (2015 IONGES) and the effect of the introduction of a carbon tax on the price of the industrial sector was assessed. Based on the existing energy-related tax system in Japan, the introduction of a carbon tax is regarded as an increase in the tax for global-warming countermeasures (TGWC) in the petroleum and coal tax (PCT). While existing energy-related taxes are designed to place a relatively heavy burden on the transportation sector, tax reform of the petroleum and coal tax has a relatively large effect on raising prices in energy-conversion and energy-intensive sectors. As a result, the reform of the energy-related tax may promote the introduction of energy-saving technology and decarbonization technology, both in the transportation sector and in a wider range of sectors, and may work to correct the unfairness of the tax burden between sectors. Full article
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