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- Publication 16 August 2021 Assessing the performance and impacts of Project Bundles
- Publication 16 August 2021 Counteracting market concentration in renewable energy auctions: Lessons learned from South Africa Competitive bidding programmes, or auctions, are becoming the dominant method for procuring utility-scale renewable energy generation capacity and have coincided with significant cost reductions of renewable energy (RE) technologies. The use of price in auctions as the main awarding criterion has been criticized for apparently leading to market concentration and dominance in project ownership. We investigate: to what extent South Africa’s renewable energy auction programme has contributed to…
- Publication 16 August 2021 Lightweight privacy-preserving data aggregation protocol against internal attacks in smart grid Privacy-preserving data aggregation has been studied extensively over the past decades, but there are still some concerns remained. For example, some schemes cannot resist against internal attacks, especially when the internal attack is launched by either the data centers that allocate the system security parameters or the attacker who shares the common information with the targeted user. In this paper, we propose a lightweight privacy-preserving data aggregation scheme, which is more efficient…
- Publication 16 August 2021 Managing climate change: Challenges related to uncertainty, distributional impacts, technology transfer and transnational governance The Paris Agreement, under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, lays out the international community’s blueprint for curbing global warming. It is a blueprint articulated around the individual contributions that each party to the Convention is prepared to make, in light of its capabilities and the so-called principle of common-but-differentiated responsibilities. This thesis explores how national governments are responding to the challenges associated with determining the…
- Publication 16 August 2021 System Change: Transformative design of Article 6 programmes for net zero emissions by 2050
- Publication 16 August 2021 Accessibility, Infrastructure Provision and Residential Land Value: Modelling the Relation Using Geographic Weighted Regression in the City of Rajkot, India Amenities and infrastructure provision in urban areas are essential for the sustainable future of cities in developing countries like India. Indian cities have large development deficits and find it challenging to bridge the gap using traditional methods. Provision of these facilities costs money, which is often not available. However, access to amenities and infrastructure adds to land premium, which, if captured, can be used to finance the provision of these facilities. In India, very little…
- Publication 16 August 2021 Designing a sustainable business model for automated solar-PV drip irrigation for smallholders in Ghana Sustainable business model (SBM) research and practice has grown rapidly in the last two decades, not only showing the traits of an emerging research field, but also having an impact on business practices and government policies. Despite the wide-ranging academic and practical debates on SBMs, the academic literature still needs approaches specifically tailored to support the design of SBMs in developing countries, taking into account their characteristics, opportunities, and challenges. Our…
- Publication 16 August 2021 Upscaling Energy-efficiency in Municipalities: Sourcebook on Project Bundling