The influence of renewable energy generation on electricity price fluctuations, a case study of The Netherlands

The research conducts an analysis of the Dutch day-ahead electricity market prices spanning from 2015 to 2022, examining the relationship between increasing RE penetration and day-ahead electricity price fluctuations. The electricity price fluctuations over this time period are reviewed for patterns and recalculated for inflation corrections...

Unraveling Digital Automation in Emerging Economies: A Problem Demarcation for Social and Economic Policymakers

Digisation and the continuous advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) incites projections about automation altering occupations over many sectors and countries. With increasing availability of digital infrastructure, many parts of emerging economies will open their doors and become subject to digitisation, robots and AI simultaneously ...

Understanding long-term labour market dynamics under deep uncertainty: A system dynamics approach for a labour market system

The Netherlands is subject to labour scarcity across a variety of industries. While labour scarcity has occurred in the past, only now the consequences of higher educational attainment have become prevalent in the Netherlands. Due to a shortage of vocational workers and a population that is getting older, circumstances ask for adequate policy...

Do we (need to) overpay public servants?: On the Dutch public-private wage gap and its impact on sectoral job mobility

The labour market is constantly subject to economic, socio-demographic and technological developments. As both a policymaker and employer, the Dutch government must respond to these developments. As a policymaker to promote the functioning of the labour market, and as an employer to attract sufficient qualified personnel to guarantee the...

Residential energy consumption in theory and practice—the effect of home ownership

One of the main strategies for reducing energy demand—and thereby carbon emissions— is increasing energy efficiency. In the Netherlands, energy efficiency policy and energy reduction targets in the residential sector are based on the theoretical energy consumption of buildings, which often over- or underestimates the measured energy consumption....

Will Machine Learning accelerate productivity growth in the United States?

The Role of Excise Duties on Fuel in Reducing CO2 Emission Levels from Road Transport: A Dutch Case Study

By design, excise duties are primarily a tax which serves to generate revenue for the central government. However, when they are placed on fuels they can, from a consumer point of view, be regarded as similar to carbon taxes. Carbon pricing, and carbon taxes in particular, are often championed by experts in relation to reducing carbon emissions....

Exploring the relation of trade-specialisation on structural changes in energy intensity: The effect of trade-specialisation on inter-country differences in energy intensity of industries

Climate change has increased the interest around energy intensity to many researchers. Understanding the drivers of energy intensity is essential to produce a fitting policy. While structural changes have been acknowledged as drivers of economy-wide energy intensity, it has not been recognised as an influential factor on industry-level energy...

Investigating the Employment Impacts of Renewable Energy in South Africa

This dissertation aims to contribute towards the research on just transitions by providing insight into the extent of the employment impacts caused by a potential energy transition in South Africa. South Africa is in the process of transforming its electricity mix. The majority of electricity is currently sourced from coal-fired power plants....

The extended LCOE calculation of internal hydrogen production, storage and reconversion for offshore wind turbines at remote locations

This research will calculate the extended LCOE of internal hydrogen production and stor- age in offshore wind turbines at remote locations and will be done in collaboration with Van Oord. Van Oord is a global offshore marine contractor which is focused on dredging, land infra-structure, offshore wind and oil gas infrastructure.<br/><br/>To test...

A Research on The Changes on the Carbon Emissions in China in The Phase of New Normal

Global warming is one of the most significant concerns for human beings today in the 21st century. Under this circumstance, countries and regions around the world are taking action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. China, as the world's largest emitter, plays an important role in reducing carbon emissions worldwide. This paper aims to find the...

An environmental and economic assessment of solar photovoltaics and nuclear energy in Maharashtra, India

Maharashtra, the second largest state in India in terms of population and area, is a fast-developing economy and meeting its electricity demand is crucial for its economic growth. Currently, power production is causing severe environmental and security issues mainly because of the reliance on coal plants in the state. In order to meet SDG 7 ...

Who is at risk of automation?: Estimating the effects of automation technologies on employment

This study defines who is at risk of automation and discusses policies to ensure the vulnerable groups are seen. The study of Nedelkoska and Quintini (2018) is taken as the role model: The risk of automation for individuals across OECD countries is calculated by associating the expert assessment conducted by Frey and Osborne (2013) with...

Improving and evaluating the methodology for calculating offshoring of emissions

This research aimed to improve the method to calculate offshoring of emissions to understand if developed countries were increasingly offshoring emissions towards developing countries. By offshoring, developed countries can achieve their climate goals without improving their carbon efficiencies. The widely-used method of the balance of emissions...

Robots and re-shoring: Should developing countries start to worry?

The world is experiencing a new technological revolution that can have profound implications for the nature of work. Currently, attention is particularly focused on the implication of the increased adoption of industrial robots. Multiple studies predict that especially developing countries are at risk to be negatively affected by robotization in...

Does Outward Foreign Direct Investment Reduce Domestic Investment?: An Industry-Level Analysis

With the rise of globalisation, countries have become more connected financially and global cross-border investment flows have become more common. FDI is an important form of cross-border flow which is responsible for the spread of technology across countries and is the main source of external finance for emerging countries. In the last two...