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Many developing countries face severe electricity constraints, which are reflected in low electrification rates, frequent and prolonged outages, and high electricity tariffs, all of which result in low electricity consumption that impedes economic development. This study estimates the impact of electricity consumption on value added through reduced form equations for three sectors: agriculture, manufacturing, and services. It uses panel data on 126 countries for 1996-2014 from the International Energy Agency and World Development Indicators databases. To control for endogeneity and reverse causality bias in the ordinary least squares estimators, the study applies two-step difference and system panel generalized method of moments estimation techniques, which improve the ordinary least squares estimates by applying lags of the explanatory variables as instruments that are not correlated with the error term and account for countries' fixed effects generating bias in the coefficients. The estimation results indicate that electricity consumption has a significant and positive impact on the manufacturing sector's value added in non-highincome countries (with an elasticity of 0.022). By contrast, the electricity consumption elasticities are insignificant in agriculture and services in non-high-income countries, as the production technologies of these industries vary substantially across income groups compared with those in manufacturing. Finally, using all the countries in the sample produce positive and significant results for all sectors, with the highest elasticity of 0.036 in manufacturing.

Consumption --- Electric Power --- Electricity --- Electricity Consumption --- Energy --- Energy Consumption --- Energy Markets --- Value Added

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Climate change has shifted from future menace to current event. As eco-conscious electricity consumers, we want to do our part in weening from fossil fuels, but what are we actually a part of? Committed environmentalists in one of North America’s most progressive regions desperately wanted energy policies that address the climate crisis. For many of them, wind turbines on Northern New England’s iconic ridgelines symbolize the energy transition that they have long hoped to see. For others, however, ridgeline wind takes on a very different meaning. When weighing its costs and benefits locally and globally, some wind opponents now see the graceful structures as symbols of corrupted energy politics. This book derives from several years of research to make sense of how wind turbines have so starkly split a community of environmentalists, as well as several communities. In doing so, it casts a critical light on the roadmap for energy transition that Northern New England’s ridgeline wind projects demarcate. It outlines how ridgeline wind conforms to antiquated social structures propping up corporate energy interests, to the detriment of the swift de-carbonizing and equitable transformation that climate predictions warrant. It suggests, therefore, that the energy transition of which most of us are a part, is probably not the transition we would have designed ourselves, if we had been asked.

Energy policy --- Renewable energy sources --- Sustainable development. --- Wind turbines --- climate, wind energy, energy transition, hegemonic energy, wind turbine, environmental reform, environmentalists, ridgeline, electricity consumption, public policy, ecology, fossil fuels, power lines, turbines, corporate energy, decarbonization, energy reduction, greenhouse gas.

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Over-pumping of aquifers is a worldwide problem, mainly caused by agricultural water use. Among its consequences are the falling dry of streams and wetlands, soil subsidence, die-off of phreatophytic vegetation, saline water intrusion, increased pumping cost and loss of storage needed for drought relief. Stopping or reversing the trend requires management interventions. The North China Plain serves as an example. A management system is set up for a typical county. It contains three components: monitoring, decision support based on modelling, and implementation in the field. Besides all monitoring data, the decision support module contains an irrigation calculator, a box model, and a distributed groundwater model to project the outcomes of different water allocation scenarios. In view of grain security, a solution combines an adaptation of the cropping system with imports of surface water from the South. The Open Access book does not only describe the problem and the path to its solution. It also gives access to nine manuals concerning methods used. They include computer programs and the game Save the Water. The Chinese experience should be of considerable interest to other regions in the world which suffer from over-pumping of aquifers.

Hydrology & the hydrosphere --- Sustainability --- Environmental monitoring --- Analytical chemistry --- Agricultural science --- Groundwater management --- Groundwater depletion --- Groundwater modelling --- Monitoring of groundwater levels --- Pumping tests for monitoring of pumping rates of wells --- Subsidized land fallowing --- Groundwater game app --- Smart metering of pumping wells --- Smart metering of electricity consumption --- Surface water diversion --- Decision support system --- Open Access

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Efficiency and productivity assessment are essential to ensure the long-term financial sustainability of countries, services and processes. In the last few years, there has been an increasing interest in the environmental effects of economic activities, and the need to assess the environmental and energy efficiency has been internationally recognized. Energy and environmental efficiency assessments of decision-making units (DMUs), such as countries, utilities, processes and services are relevant and have strong implications for companies, regulators, stakeholders, policy makers, and customers. To improve both the decision-making process and the management of DMUs, fundamental and practical knowledge about energy and environmental efficiency and productivity is essential

Research & information: general --- electricity consumption (EC) --- undesirable outputs model --- data envelopment analysis (DEA) --- efficient --- inefficient --- data envelopment analysis --- energy efficiency --- performance --- bootstrap --- water treatment --- composite indicator --- sustainability --- water utilities management --- multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) --- evaluation --- energy --- environment --- efficiency --- transport --- DEA --- TOPSIS --- transit-oriented development (TOD) --- transit efficiency --- smartcard data --- network slacks-based measure data envelopment analysis (NSBM DEA)

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The Government of Montenegro is preparing an electricity tariff reform due to recent developments in the national and regional electricity markets. Electricity tariffs for residential consumers in Montenegro are likely to gradually increase by anywhere from 40 to over 100 percent. This significant price rise will impose a heavy burden on poor households and it may adversely affect the environment. In an ex-ante investigation of the welfare impact of this price increase on households in Montenegro, the authors show that the anticipated price increase will result in a significant increase in households' energy expenditures. A simulation of alternative policy measures analyzes the impact of different tariff levels and structures on the poor and vulnerable households in particular. Higher electricity prices could also significantly increase the proportion of households using fuelwood for space heating.

Electric Power --- Electric Utility --- Electricity --- Electricity Consumption --- Electricity Price --- Electricity Prices --- Electricity Tariff --- Electricity Tariffs --- Energy --- Energy and Environment --- Energy Efficiency --- Energy Markets --- Energy Prices --- Energy Production and Transportation --- Environment --- Environment and Energy Efficiency --- Environmental Impacts --- Generation --- Investment --- Investments --- Power --- Residential Consumers --- Residential Energy --- Space Heating --- Tariff Levels