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International Journal of Global Energy Issues

 

Special Issue on: "Global Applications of Renewable Energy for GHG Reduction"

Guest Editor:
Dr. Ahmed F. Zobaa, Cairo University, Egypt

Guest Associate Editors:
Dr. R.C. Bansal, The University of the South Pacific, Fiji
Dr. Walmir Freitas, State University of Campinas, Brazil
Dr. Ibrahim Yassien, Energy Efficiency Improvement and Greenhouse Gases Reduction Project, Egypt

Technological advances offer new opportunities and declining costs for energy from renewable sources. In the longer term, renewables can meet a major part of the world's demand for energy.

High rates of innovation in the energy sector are a prerequisite for meeting the most ambitious greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation objectives and significantly lowering the costs of many technology options below present levels.

RD&D programs are necessary but not sufficient to establish new technologies in the marketplace. Commercial demonstration projects and programmes located in realistic economic and organisational contexts to stimulate markets for new technologies also are needed. For a wide range of small-scale, modular technologies, such as most renewable energy technologies and fuel cells, energy production costs can be expected to decline with the cumulative volume of production, as a result of learning by doing.

Subject Coverage
The objective of the special issue is to provide a means for the publication and interchange of information, and embraces history, the power market, role of utilities, international activity, manufacturing expansion, utility projects, corporate projects, community projects, financial activity, archival bibliography and resources.

Notes for Prospective Authors

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere

All papers are refereed through a peer review process. A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are available on the Author Guidelines page

Important Dates

Proposal submission: 15 October 2007

Notification of acceptance: 15 November 2007

Complete manuscript submission: 15 January 2008

Notification of acceptance: 15 April 2008

Final paper: 15 May 2008