Global Tailings Storage Facilities: Categorization by Resource Type & Forecasting Copper Tailings Production until 2040

Tailings are a waste product of primary metal production. Although these metals contribute to the development of modern technology and renewable energy systems, tailings pose significant environmental, economic, and human health risks. Stored behind a dam in tailings storage facilities (TSFs) these waste materials are meant to be isolated from...

Back to the Future: Projecting Dutch Daily Day-ahead Market Price Series Under 2050 Energy Scenarios

Under the increasing electrification of end uses in the energy transition towards more renewable integration, the electricity price keeps gaining importance on every scale from individual well-being to the competitiveness of an economy. Though scarce in the scientific literature, Long-Term Electricity Price Projection (LEPP) has great potentials...

The effect of additive manufacturing on global energy demand: An assessment using a bottom-up approach

The effect of disruptive technologies unrelated to the energy sector, such as additive manufacturing (AM), tends to be overlooked in energy scenarios. The present research assessed the potential effect of AM on the global energy demand in four energy scenarios for 2050 with extended versus limited globalisation and limited versus extensive...

Review of models and actors in energy mix optimization – can leader visions and decisions align with optimum model strategies for our future energy systems?

Organizational behavior and stakeholder processes continually influence energy strategy choices and decisions. Although theoretical optimizations can provide guidance for energy mix decisions from a pure physical systems engineering point of view, these solutions might not be optimal from a political or social perspective. Improving the...

Ecology, Economy and Security of Supply of the Dutch Electricity Supply System: A Scenario Based Future Analysis

The Dutch electricity sector has been transformed into a liberalized international energy market. Market players are free to choose from various electricity generation options when replacing or expanding production capacity. However, choices that are made now will influence emissions (ecology), integral costs (economy) and availability (security...