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Prof. Tetsuo Tezuka
Department of Socio-Environmental Energy Science, Graduate School of Energy Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan

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Journal article
Published: 29 March 2021 in Energies
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Energy transitions are complex and involve interrelated changes in the socio-technical dimensions of society. One major barrier to renewable energy transitions is lock-in from the incumbent socio-technical regime. This study evaluates Energy Product–Service Systems (EPSS) as a renewable energy market mechanism. EPSS offer electricity service performance instead of energy products and appliances for household consumers. Through consumers buying the service, the provider company is enabled to choose, manage and control electrical appliances for best-matched service delivery. Given the heterogenous market players and future uncertainties, this study aims to identify the necessary conditions to achieve a sustainable renewable energy market. Simulation-Based Design for EPSS framework is implemented to assess various hypothetical market conditions’ impact on market efficiency in the short term and long term. The results reveal the specific market characteristics that have a higher chance of causing unexpected results. Ultimately, this paper demonstrates the advantage of implementing Simulation-Based Design for EPSS to design retail electricity markets for renewable energy under competing market mechanisms with heterogenous economic agents.

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Widha Kusumaningdyah; Tetsuo Tezuka; Benjamin McLellan. Investigating Preconditions for Sustainable Renewable Energy Product–Service Systems in Retail Electricity Markets. Energies 2021, 14, 1877 .

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Widha Kusumaningdyah, Tetsuo Tezuka, Benjamin McLellan. Investigating Preconditions for Sustainable Renewable Energy Product–Service Systems in Retail Electricity Markets. Energies. 2021; 14 (7):1877.

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Widha Kusumaningdyah; Tetsuo Tezuka; Benjamin McLellan. 2021. "Investigating Preconditions for Sustainable Renewable Energy Product–Service Systems in Retail Electricity Markets." Energies 14, no. 7: 1877.

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Published: 20 August 2020 in Renewable Energy
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This study investigates the role of the water-energy-nexus in transition plans to achieve a future system with a higher share of renewable energy and lower excess water extraction. Applying a novel nexus approach, an interactive multi-period model is proposed to study the synergies of sustainable water and energy supply planning, taking into account operational flexibility of the water sector and its compatibility with inherent intermittency of variable renewable resources. For investigating synergies in designing both energy systems and water systems together, the path of technology cost reduction is assumed to be a function of experience and knowledge and estimated using two-factor learning curves. The learning-by-searching rate was higher than the learning-by-doing rate for utility-scale wind, photovoltaic and reverse osmosis desalination technologies, ensuring research & development investment can play a chief role in the development of these industries. The levelized cost and capacity factor of photovoltaic and wind resources in the Middle East were calculated using data from 81 projects. The results showed that planning the water and energy sectors as endogenous parts one integrated system brings potential synergies. The levelized cost of variable renewable energy decreased by 20% and the levelized cost of desalinated water dropped 4%.

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Esmaeil Ahmadi; Benjamin McLellan; Tetsuo Tezuka. The economic synergies of modelling the renewable energy-water nexus towards sustainability. Renewable Energy 2020, 162, 1347 -1366.

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Esmaeil Ahmadi, Benjamin McLellan, Tetsuo Tezuka. The economic synergies of modelling the renewable energy-water nexus towards sustainability. Renewable Energy. 2020; 162 ():1347-1366.

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Esmaeil Ahmadi; Benjamin McLellan; Tetsuo Tezuka. 2020. "The economic synergies of modelling the renewable energy-water nexus towards sustainability." Renewable Energy 162, no. : 1347-1366.

Journal article
Published: 28 June 2020 in Sustainability
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Desalination is becoming a practical option to meet water demand in an increasing number of locations that are facing water scarcity. Currently, more than 150 countries in the world are already using desalination technologies, which account for about one percent of the world’s drinking water. Although for specific regions, desalination is the only feasible solution to close the supply–demand gap (for example the production of desalinated seawater in the Middle East is predicted to rise almost fourteen-fold by 2040), the sustainability of desalination systems is still remarkably under question. This review aims first to investigate the technical and economic trends and environmental and social aspects of desalination systems and then, in the second stage, to give an overview of the role of renewable energy technologies in the sustainability of the future water systems with an increasing share of desalination.

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Esmaeil Ahmadi; Benjamin McLellan; Behnam Mohammadi-Ivatloo; Tetsuo Tezuka. The Role of Renewable Energy Resources in Sustainability of Water Desalination as a Potential Fresh-Water Source: An Updated Review. Sustainability 2020, 12, 5233 .

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Esmaeil Ahmadi, Benjamin McLellan, Behnam Mohammadi-Ivatloo, Tetsuo Tezuka. The Role of Renewable Energy Resources in Sustainability of Water Desalination as a Potential Fresh-Water Source: An Updated Review. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (13):5233.

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Esmaeil Ahmadi; Benjamin McLellan; Behnam Mohammadi-Ivatloo; Tetsuo Tezuka. 2020. "The Role of Renewable Energy Resources in Sustainability of Water Desalination as a Potential Fresh-Water Source: An Updated Review." Sustainability 12, no. 13: 5233.

Journal article
Published: 24 May 2020 in Sustainability
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This study aims to reveal the economic, technical, and environmental impacts of different system configurations (centralized or decentralized, components, and technologies) on transition plans to achieve a higher share of renewable energy and desalination supplies for regions facing water scarcity. The main contribution of this research is the comparative evaluation of on-grid decentralized or distributed renewable-powered desalination systems for sustainable water and energy supply planning. Applying a novel nexus approach, an interactive multi-period planning model is developed to highlight synergies and to identify conflicts of planning both energy and water sectors at the same time as endogenous subsystems of one overall system. For studying these synergies in this study, the pace of technology deployment and the path of decline in overall costs are assumed to be a function of experience and knowledge as two-factor learning curves. Using data from 81 projects, the levelized cost and capacity factor of utility-scale photovoltaic and wind supplies in the Middle East were calculated. The results indicate that a scenario with a decentralized water sector and renewable-powered multiple-effect distillation technology has the best overall performance among the proposed scenarios.

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Esmaeil Ahmadi; Benjamin McLellan; Seiichi Ogata; Behnam Mohammadi-Ivatloo; Tetsuo Tezuka. An Integrated Planning Framework for Sustainable Water and Energy Supply. Sustainability 2020, 12, 4295 .

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Esmaeil Ahmadi, Benjamin McLellan, Seiichi Ogata, Behnam Mohammadi-Ivatloo, Tetsuo Tezuka. An Integrated Planning Framework for Sustainable Water and Energy Supply. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (10):4295.

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Esmaeil Ahmadi; Benjamin McLellan; Seiichi Ogata; Behnam Mohammadi-Ivatloo; Tetsuo Tezuka. 2020. "An Integrated Planning Framework for Sustainable Water and Energy Supply." Sustainability 12, no. 10: 4295.

Journal article
Published: 06 August 2019 in Energies
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Japan is a nation which is highly dependent on the import of raw materials to supply its manufacturing industry, notable among them copper. When extracting copper from ore, a large amount of energy is required, typically leading to high levels of CO2 emissions due to the fossil fuel-dominated energy mix. Moreover, maintaining security of raw material supply is difficult if imports are the only source utilized. This study examines the environmental and economic impacts of domestic mineral production from the recycling of end-of-life products and deep ocean mining as strategies to reduce CO2 emissions and enhance security of raw material supplies. The results indicate that under the given assumptions, recycling, which is typically considered to be less CO2 intensive, produces higher domestic emissions than current copper processing, although across the whole supply chain shows promise. As the total quantity of domestic resources from deep ocean ores are much smaller than the potential from recycling, it is possible that recycling could become a mainstream supply alternative, while deep ocean mining is more likely to be a niche supply source. Implications of a progressively aging society and flow-on impacts for the recycling sector are discussed.

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Ran Motoori; Benjamin McLellan; Andrew Chapman; Tetsuo Tezuka. Resource Security Strategies and Their Environmental and Economic Implications: A Case Study of Copper Production in Japan. Energies 2019, 12, 3021 .

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Ran Motoori, Benjamin McLellan, Andrew Chapman, Tetsuo Tezuka. Resource Security Strategies and Their Environmental and Economic Implications: A Case Study of Copper Production in Japan. Energies. 2019; 12 (15):3021.

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Ran Motoori; Benjamin McLellan; Andrew Chapman; Tetsuo Tezuka. 2019. "Resource Security Strategies and Their Environmental and Economic Implications: A Case Study of Copper Production in Japan." Energies 12, no. 15: 3021.

Journal article
Published: 21 February 2019 in Challenges
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This paper introduces Energy-Product-Service Systems (EPSS) to overcome the issues in the liberalized energy market. Currently, conventional energy services are highly commoditized, thus eroding their competitiveness in a liberalized energy market. In addition, customer benefits from the current system are hard to analyse, because it is difficult for customers to observe the quality of the results of energy consumption. EPSS incorporates energy sector with other related sectors to design and deliver immediate result of energy usage that suit to customer’s specific needs is expected to provide better performance than current system. However, EPSS service design and implementation involve high risk and performance uncertainties. Therefore, this study proposes a method to design and to evaluate EPSS and compare its performances with energy product/service performance in current system through Simulation-Based Design (SBD). SBD is used to construct EPSS service considering stakeholders’ interest and to evaluate the service performance, by simulating alternative scenarios in order to seek conditions that are expected to fulfil stakeholders’ requirements. In the proposed analysis, three service features, that is, service consumption management, operational system design and electricity supply management are introduced and used to develop EPSS alternative design for space-heating service. Afterwards, customer satisfaction and the company’s benefit for each service scenarios are simulated and compared with the performance of the current system. In this context, EPSS design that includes operational system design and electricity supply management results in better benefit for all stakeholders.

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Widha Kusumaningdyah; Benjamin McLellan; Tetsuo Tezuka. Designing and Evaluating Energy Product-Service Systems for Energy Sector (EPSS) in Liberalized Energy Market: A Case Study in Space Heating Services for Japan Household. Challenges 2019, 10, 18 .

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Widha Kusumaningdyah, Benjamin McLellan, Tetsuo Tezuka. Designing and Evaluating Energy Product-Service Systems for Energy Sector (EPSS) in Liberalized Energy Market: A Case Study in Space Heating Services for Japan Household. Challenges. 2019; 10 (1):18.

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Widha Kusumaningdyah; Benjamin McLellan; Tetsuo Tezuka. 2019. "Designing and Evaluating Energy Product-Service Systems for Energy Sector (EPSS) in Liberalized Energy Market: A Case Study in Space Heating Services for Japan Household." Challenges 10, no. 1: 18.

Journal article
Published: 01 December 2018 in Minerals
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In the assessment of critical minerals, environmental impacts have been a focus of a number of methodologies. In the case of resource security for critical minerals, there are a variety of potential strategies that might be used to reduce criticality from the supply risk perspective, but the environmental consequences of these strategies need to be evaluated. Japan is a country with a heavy dependence on imported materials, and thus has examined various alternative resource supply strategies to improve resource security. This study examines these alternative strategies and evaluates the consequential environmental implications, focusing on the domestic impacts in Japan. Utilization of deep ocean mining and end-of-life home appliance recycling are examined as alternatives against the conventional, import-oriented process. From the obtained results, deep ocean mining, providing 30% of domestic copper demand with the remainder supplied from recycling, is the current optimal solution with regards to the environmental impact.

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Ran Motoori; Benjamin C. McLellan; Tetsuo Tezuka. Environmental Implications of Resource Security Strategies for Critical Minerals: A Case Study of Copper in Japan. Minerals 2018, 8, 558 .

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Ran Motoori, Benjamin C. McLellan, Tetsuo Tezuka. Environmental Implications of Resource Security Strategies for Critical Minerals: A Case Study of Copper in Japan. Minerals. 2018; 8 (12):558.

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Ran Motoori; Benjamin C. McLellan; Tetsuo Tezuka. 2018. "Environmental Implications of Resource Security Strategies for Critical Minerals: A Case Study of Copper in Japan." Minerals 8, no. 12: 558.

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Published: 28 November 2018 in Urban Research & Practice
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Basic requirements of sustainable smart cities in a developing country are the entitlement of facilities. Here, an index named Smart Sustainable City Development Index (SSCDI) has been developed for three Indian Smart Cities. A hierarchical method has been used to construct the index with multiple layers of indicators capturing characteristics of the dimensions such as social, economic, environment, culture and lifestyle. This index is used to assess performances of the three case study cities based on the scores in various indicators. This SSCDI framework provides a conceptual landscape for developing countries for planning their sustainable urban development and evaluation of performances.

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Tania Ray Bhattacharya; Anindya Bhattacharya; Benjamin Mclellan; Tetsuo Tezuka. Sustainable smart city development framework for developing countries. Urban Research & Practice 2018, 13, 180 -212.

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Tania Ray Bhattacharya, Anindya Bhattacharya, Benjamin Mclellan, Tetsuo Tezuka. Sustainable smart city development framework for developing countries. Urban Research & Practice. 2018; 13 (2):180-212.

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Tania Ray Bhattacharya; Anindya Bhattacharya; Benjamin Mclellan; Tetsuo Tezuka. 2018. "Sustainable smart city development framework for developing countries." Urban Research & Practice 13, no. 2: 180-212.

Journal article
Published: 02 August 2018 in Energies
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The introduction of shared autonomous electric vehicles (SAEVs), expected within the next decade, can transform the car into a service, accelerate electrification of the transport sector, and allow for large scale control of electric vehicle charging. In this work, we investigate the potential for this system to provide aggregated storage when combined with intermittent renewable energy sources. We develop a simulation methodology for the optimization of vehicle charging in the context of a virtual power plant or microgrid, with and without grid connection or distributed dispatchable generators. The model considers aggregate storage availability from vehicles based on transport patterns taking into account the necessary vehicle redistribution. We investigate the case of a grid-connected VPP with rooftop solar and the case of a isolated microgrid with solar, wind, and dispatchable generation. We conduct a comprehensive sensitivity analysis to study the effect of several parameters on the results for both cases.

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Riccardo Iacobucci; Benjamin McLellan; Tetsuo Tezuka. The Synergies of Shared Autonomous Electric Vehicles with Renewable Energy in a Virtual Power Plant and Microgrid. Energies 2018, 11, 2016 .

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Riccardo Iacobucci, Benjamin McLellan, Tetsuo Tezuka. The Synergies of Shared Autonomous Electric Vehicles with Renewable Energy in a Virtual Power Plant and Microgrid. Energies. 2018; 11 (8):2016.

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Riccardo Iacobucci; Benjamin McLellan; Tetsuo Tezuka. 2018. "The Synergies of Shared Autonomous Electric Vehicles with Renewable Energy in a Virtual Power Plant and Microgrid." Energies 11, no. 8: 2016.

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Published: 14 July 2018 in Devising a Clean Energy Strategy for Asian Cities
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The Government of India recently initiated a smart city programme, aiming to promote 100 cities as “smart cities” across the country. While the definition of what a smart city actually is has been left largely to the cities themselves to define, the elements of waste, energy, information technology (IT) and transportation are largely considered to be important. In parallel with this programme, and distinct from it, the Toyota Foundation funded the authors’ research into the water-energy nexus and sustainability within the context of three of the proposed project cities. This latter work is described in this chapter.

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Benjamin McLellan; Tania Bhattacharya; Anindya Bhattacharya; Tetsuo Tezuka. Limits to Urbanization: Application of Integrated Assessment for Smart City Development in India. Devising a Clean Energy Strategy for Asian Cities 2018, 51 -65.

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Benjamin McLellan, Tania Bhattacharya, Anindya Bhattacharya, Tetsuo Tezuka. Limits to Urbanization: Application of Integrated Assessment for Smart City Development in India. Devising a Clean Energy Strategy for Asian Cities. 2018; ():51-65.

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Benjamin McLellan; Tania Bhattacharya; Anindya Bhattacharya; Tetsuo Tezuka. 2018. "Limits to Urbanization: Application of Integrated Assessment for Smart City Development in India." Devising a Clean Energy Strategy for Asian Cities , no. : 51-65.

Journal article
Published: 05 May 2018 in Sustainability
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Considering the challenge of accessing reliable household metering data in Nigeria, how can electricity consumption levels be determined? And how do disparities in electricity consumption patterns across the country affect the pursuit of sustainability, universal access and energy transition objectives? This study combined household-reported data on ownership of electrical appliances and energy expenditure with online sales records of household appliances to estimate current and future residential electricity demand in Nigeria, as well as the required generation capacity to achieve 100% electricity access, under various scenarios. Median residential electricity consumption was estimated at 18–27 kWh per capita but these estimates vary between the geographical zones with the North East and South West representing extremes. Under a universal access scenario, the future electricity supply system would be expected to have installed generation capacity sufficient to meet the estimated residential demand of 85 TWh. To further understand the required infrastructure investment as a whole and the approaches that might be preferred in rural versus urban areas, the disaggregated, zone-by-zone and urban/rural data may offer more insight than a whole-of-country approach. The data obtained is useful for identifying specific transitions at the sub-national level that can minimize the required investment while maximizing households’ energy access.

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Kayode Olaniyan; Benjamin C. McLellan; Seiichi Ogata; Tetsuo Tezuka. Estimating Residential Electricity Consumption in Nigeria to Support Energy Transitions. Sustainability 2018, 10, 1440 .

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Kayode Olaniyan, Benjamin C. McLellan, Seiichi Ogata, Tetsuo Tezuka. Estimating Residential Electricity Consumption in Nigeria to Support Energy Transitions. Sustainability. 2018; 10 (5):1440.

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Kayode Olaniyan; Benjamin C. McLellan; Seiichi Ogata; Tetsuo Tezuka. 2018. "Estimating Residential Electricity Consumption in Nigeria to Support Energy Transitions." Sustainability 10, no. 5: 1440.

Journal article
Published: 12 April 2018 in Minerals
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As environmental problems associated with energy systems become more serious, it is necessary to address them with consideration of their interconnections—for example, the energy-mineral nexus. Specifically, it is unclear whether long-term energy scenarios assuming the expansion of low carbon energy technology are sustainable in terms of resource constraints. However, there are few studies that comprehensively analyze the possibility of resource constraints in the process of introducing low carbon energy technology from a long-term perspective. Hence, to provide guidelines for technological development and policy-making toward realizing the low carbon society, this paper undertakes the following: (1) Estimation of the impact of the expansion of low carbon energy technology on future metal demand based, on the International Energy Agency (IEA)’s scenarios; (2) estimation of the potential effects of low carbon energy technology recycling on the future supply-demand balance; (3) identification of critical metals that require priority measures. Results indicated that the introduction of solar power and next-generation vehicles may be hindered by resource depletion. Among the metals examined, indium, tellurium, silver, lithium, nickel and platinum were identified as critical metals that require specific measures. As recycling can reduce primary demand by 20%~70% for low carbon energy technology, countermeasures including recycling need to be considered.

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Takuma Watari; Benjamin C. McLellan; Seiichi Ogata; Tetsuo Tezuka. Analysis of Potential for Critical Metal Resource Constraints in the International Energy Agency’s Long-Term Low-Carbon Energy Scenarios. Minerals 2018, 8, 156 .

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Takuma Watari, Benjamin C. McLellan, Seiichi Ogata, Tetsuo Tezuka. Analysis of Potential for Critical Metal Resource Constraints in the International Energy Agency’s Long-Term Low-Carbon Energy Scenarios. Minerals. 2018; 8 (4):156.

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Takuma Watari; Benjamin C. McLellan; Seiichi Ogata; Tetsuo Tezuka. 2018. "Analysis of Potential for Critical Metal Resource Constraints in the International Energy Agency’s Long-Term Low-Carbon Energy Scenarios." Minerals 8, no. 4: 156.

Journal article
Published: 07 December 2017 in International Journal of Sustainable Future for Human Security
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Kenji Niwa; Benjamin McLellan; Tetsuo Tezuka. Study of Hydrogen Station Installation Utilizing Wind Power: Case study in Hokkaido. International Journal of Sustainable Future for Human Security 2017, 5, 30 -38.

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Kenji Niwa, Benjamin McLellan, Tetsuo Tezuka. Study of Hydrogen Station Installation Utilizing Wind Power: Case study in Hokkaido. International Journal of Sustainable Future for Human Security. 2017; 5 (2):30-38.

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Kenji Niwa; Benjamin McLellan; Tetsuo Tezuka. 2017. "Study of Hydrogen Station Installation Utilizing Wind Power: Case study in Hokkaido." International Journal of Sustainable Future for Human Security 5, no. 2: 30-38.

Journal article
Published: 20 October 2017 in Social Sciences
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Feed-in tariff (FiT) policy approaches for renewable energy (RE) deployment are employed in many nations around the world. Although FiTs are considered effective in boosting RE deployment, the issue of increasing energy bills and social burden is an often-reported negative impact of their use. The FiT has been employed in Japan since 2012, following after many developed countries, and, as was experienced in other nations, led to a social burden imparted on society significantly higher than initial government estimates. Although policy decision making does not necessarily reflect international policy experience, it is still prudent to ask how international policy experiences of social burden increase were considered within the Japanese approach. In this research, we analyzed the transfer process by adapting a conventional model to develop more objective observations than was previously possible, by setting a benchmark for evaluation based on prior international experiences. We identified two streams of policy transfer, each led by different actors; the government and representatives of the National Diet of Japan (Diet). Both actors were exposed to the same experiences, however the interpretation, application to policy development and priority settings employed were vastly different. Although the framework can only assess policy learning processes, we have found that the government undertook a reasonable and rational process toward learning, while, on the other hand, the modified bill developed by the Diet members did not thoroughly derive learnings in the same way, due to cognitive and political reasons, and specifically, the issue of limiting social burden was not addressed.

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Yugo Tanaka; Andrew Chapman; Shigeki Sakurai; Tetsuo Tezuka. Feed-in Tariff Pricing and Social Burden in Japan: Evaluating International Learning through a Policy Transfer Approach. Social Sciences 2017, 6, 127 .

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Yugo Tanaka, Andrew Chapman, Shigeki Sakurai, Tetsuo Tezuka. Feed-in Tariff Pricing and Social Burden in Japan: Evaluating International Learning through a Policy Transfer Approach. Social Sciences. 2017; 6 (4):127.

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Yugo Tanaka; Andrew Chapman; Shigeki Sakurai; Tetsuo Tezuka. 2017. "Feed-in Tariff Pricing and Social Burden in Japan: Evaluating International Learning through a Policy Transfer Approach." Social Sciences 6, no. 4: 127.

Journal article
Published: 09 January 2017 in Sustainability
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This paper develops an evaluation method for assessing autonomous decision-making performance and demonstrates it using a case study. Focusing on community decision-making practice in energy-environmental innovation projects, a decision-making model is developed using Petri-net. This empirical model is then expanded to be able to accommodate autonomous properties and more pathways to reach various decision-making outcomes. The autonomous decision-making performance evaluation is employed by simulating the impact of various levels of autonomous conditions using the expanded model stochastically. Those results are further divided into six categories, based on the conditions (autonomous, semi-autonomous, and non-autonomous) and decision outcomes (fully successful, moderately successful, and failed). For each category, the specific stakeholders’ properties are analysed and explained. The categorised conditions are useful for estimating the outcomes of the particular community decision-making practice based on the stakeholders’ properties. The model can be modified in order to pre-evaluate other energy and environmental related decision-making.

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Niken Prilandita; Benjamin McLellan; Tetsuo Tezuka. Evaluation Method for Autonomous Decision-Making Performance in Energy and Environmental Innovations: A Case Study of an Indonesian Community. Sustainability 2017, 9, 80 .

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Niken Prilandita, Benjamin McLellan, Tetsuo Tezuka. Evaluation Method for Autonomous Decision-Making Performance in Energy and Environmental Innovations: A Case Study of an Indonesian Community. Sustainability. 2017; 9 (1):80.

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Niken Prilandita; Benjamin McLellan; Tetsuo Tezuka. 2017. "Evaluation Method for Autonomous Decision-Making Performance in Energy and Environmental Innovations: A Case Study of an Indonesian Community." Sustainability 9, no. 1: 80.

Journal article
Published: 01 November 2016 in Energy Research & Social Science
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Andrew J. Chapman; Benjamin McLellan; Tetsuo Tezuka. Proposing an evaluation framework for energy policy making incorporating equity: Applications in Australia. Energy Research & Social Science 2016, 21, 54 -69.

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Andrew J. Chapman, Benjamin McLellan, Tetsuo Tezuka. Proposing an evaluation framework for energy policy making incorporating equity: Applications in Australia. Energy Research & Social Science. 2016; 21 ():54-69.

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Andrew J. Chapman; Benjamin McLellan; Tetsuo Tezuka. 2016. "Proposing an evaluation framework for energy policy making incorporating equity: Applications in Australia." Energy Research & Social Science 21, no. : 54-69.

Journal article
Published: 26 July 2016 in Administrative Sciences
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This study investigates the nature of the energy policy making process and policy priorities within the OECD in order to identify opportunities for improvement in these processes and to improve sustainability outcomes. The Qualitative Content Analysis methodology is used, investigating governance and energy policy making alongside energy policy goals and priorities within eight OECD nations. A congruous energy policy making process (policy cycle) is discovered across the assessed nations, including the responsible bodies for each stage of the policy cycle and the current energy policy priorities. A key weakness was identified as a disconnect between the early stages of the policy cycle, issue identification and policy tool formulation, and the latter stages of implementation and evaluation. This weakness has meant that the social aspects of sustainability goals have been less developed than environmental and economic aspects and a heavy burden has been placed on the evaluation phase, risking a break down in the policy cycle. An additional “policy design” stage is proposed including a sustainability evaluation process prior to decision making and implementation, in order to remedy these identified shortcomings.

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Andrew Chapman; Benjamin&nbsp Mc Lellan; Tetsuo Tezuka. Strengthening the Energy Policy Making Process and Sustainability Outcomes in the OECD through Policy Design. Administrative Sciences 2016, 6, 9 .

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Andrew Chapman, Benjamin&nbsp Mc Lellan, Tetsuo Tezuka. Strengthening the Energy Policy Making Process and Sustainability Outcomes in the OECD through Policy Design. Administrative Sciences. 2016; 6 (3):9.

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Andrew Chapman; Benjamin&nbsp Mc Lellan; Tetsuo Tezuka. 2016. "Strengthening the Energy Policy Making Process and Sustainability Outcomes in the OECD through Policy Design." Administrative Sciences 6, no. 3: 9.

Journal article
Published: 13 May 2016 in Resources
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The nexus of minerals and energy becomes ever more important as the economic growth and development of countries in the global South accelerates and the needs of new energy technologies expand, while at the same time various important minerals are declining in grade and available reserves from conventional mining. Unconventional resources in the form of deep ocean deposits and urban ores are being widely examined, although exploitation is still limited. This paper examines some of the implications of the transition towards cleaner energy futures in parallel with the shifts through conventional ore decline and the uptake of unconventional mineral resources. Three energy scenarios, each with three levels of uptake of renewable energy, are assessed for the potential of critical minerals to restrict growth under 12 alternative mineral supply patterns. Under steady material intensities per unit of capacity, the study indicates that selenium, indium and tellurium could be barriers in the expansion of thin-film photovoltaics, while neodymium and dysprosium may delay the propagation of wind power. For fuel cells, no restrictions are observed.

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Benjamin C. McLellan; Eiji Yamasue; Tetsuo Tezuka; Glen Corder; Artem Golev; Damien Giurco. Critical Minerals and Energy–Impacts and Limitations of Moving to Unconventional Resources. Resources 2016, 5, 19 .

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Benjamin C. McLellan, Eiji Yamasue, Tetsuo Tezuka, Glen Corder, Artem Golev, Damien Giurco. Critical Minerals and Energy–Impacts and Limitations of Moving to Unconventional Resources. Resources. 2016; 5 (2):19.

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Benjamin C. McLellan; Eiji Yamasue; Tetsuo Tezuka; Glen Corder; Artem Golev; Damien Giurco. 2016. "Critical Minerals and Energy–Impacts and Limitations of Moving to Unconventional Resources." Resources 5, no. 2: 19.

Journal article
Published: 14 April 2016 in Challenges
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Autonomous decision-making in this study is defined as the process where decision-makers have the freedom and ability to find problems, select goals, and make decisions for achieving the selected problems/goals by themselves. Autonomous behavior is considered significant for achieving decision implementation, especially in the context of energy and environmental management, where multiple stakeholders are involved and each stakeholder holds valuable local information for making decisions. This paper aims to build a structured process in modeling the autonomous decision-making. A practical decision-making process in waste-to-energy conversion activities in a community in Bandung, Indonesia, is selected as a case study. The decision-making process here is considered as a discrete event system, which is then represented as a Petri-net model. First, the decision-making process in the case study is decomposed into discrete events or decision-making stages, and the stakeholders’ properties in each stage are extracted from the case study. Second, several stakeholder properties that indicate autonomous behavior are identified as autonomous properties. Third, presented is a method to develop the decision-making process as a Petri-net model. The model is utilized for identifying the critical points for verifying the performance of the derived Petri-net.

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Niken Prilandita; Benjamin McLellan; Tetsuo Tezuka. Modeling Autonomous Decision-Making on Energy and Environmental Management Using Petri-Net: The Case Study of a Community in Bandung, Indonesia. Challenges 2016, 7, 9 .

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Niken Prilandita, Benjamin McLellan, Tetsuo Tezuka. Modeling Autonomous Decision-Making on Energy and Environmental Management Using Petri-Net: The Case Study of a Community in Bandung, Indonesia. Challenges. 2016; 7 (1):9.

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Niken Prilandita; Benjamin McLellan; Tetsuo Tezuka. 2016. "Modeling Autonomous Decision-Making on Energy and Environmental Management Using Petri-Net: The Case Study of a Community in Bandung, Indonesia." Challenges 7, no. 1: 9.

Journal article
Published: 01 April 2016 in International Journal of Sustainable Future for Human Security
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Niken Prilandita; Benjamin C McLellan; Tetsuo Tezuka. Framework for Identifying Autonomous DecisionMaking Process in Energy and Environmental Issues: Case Studies in Indonesian Communities (Rukun Warga). International Journal of Sustainable Future for Human Security 2016, 3, 3 -17.

AMA Style

Niken Prilandita, Benjamin C McLellan, Tetsuo Tezuka. Framework for Identifying Autonomous DecisionMaking Process in Energy and Environmental Issues: Case Studies in Indonesian Communities (Rukun Warga). International Journal of Sustainable Future for Human Security. 2016; 3 (2):3-17.

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Niken Prilandita; Benjamin C McLellan; Tetsuo Tezuka. 2016. "Framework for Identifying Autonomous DecisionMaking Process in Energy and Environmental Issues: Case Studies in Indonesian Communities (Rukun Warga)." International Journal of Sustainable Future for Human Security 3, no. 2: 3-17.