• Environmental and Resource Economics Review
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.485-510
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• 2007

The purpose of this paper is to empirically analyze the economic effect of energy saving investment on the improvement of energy intensity. The data used in this paper are panel data, both time-series and cross-section data. In addition, eight manufacturing sectors has been divided into two groups: massive energy consuming (four industries) and non-massive energy consuming (four industries) ones and the time period of analysis is from 1982 to 2004. According to the empirical results, firstly, energy saving investment has a negative relationship with energy intensity, however, its effect is not high in terms of absolute volume of energy consuming. Secondly, in improving energy intensity of energy saving investment, its elasticity IS higher in non-massive energy consuming sector compared it with massive energy consuming sector. Thirdly, automation investment is also playing an important role in energy conservation. The elasticities of automation investment to energy intensity are larger than those of energy saving investment. In terms of the reduction of greenhouse gas per investment unit cost, however, energy saving investment has larger effect than automation investment.

• The Magazine for Energy Service Companies
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• s.37
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• pp.22-25
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• 2005

KCC 여천공장은 석고보드를 생산하고 있다. 대표적인 에너지 다소비업종인 화학산업 KCC 여천공장은 에너지절감이 곧 가격경쟁력 확보라는 생각으로 다양한 에너지절감 활동을 펼치고 있었다. 폐열회수기 ESCO사업과 자체 에너지절감사업등을 통해 에너지절감에 힘쓰는 KCC 여천공장을 찾았다.

• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.158-169
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• 2014

In the context of $CO_2$ mitigation, how early reduction action taken by individual companies previous to the actual regulated period is implemented at the free allocation process, remains one of the major issues. This article considered efficiency factor as a criterion for the early action. Then the emissions allowance allocated was compared and analyzed with and without the consideration of early action. In the cases of manufacturing sectors of Korea for the period 2001~2009, it is shown that emissions in the all industries fell by their efficiency factors. The amounts of emissions allowance allocated to the all industries except petro-chemistry are increased when EA is counted in the allocation process.

• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.22-30
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• 2009

Recently, energy efficiency is important in Korea. This paper reviews shadow amount to perform economic analysis for CHP that converts existing equipment in industrial area. It is verified that shadow amount analyze effects of gas and electric demand.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society for Simulation Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.77-83
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• 2005

기후변화협약에 의해 탄소세가 부과될 경우 한국의 에너지 집약 산업에 어떠한 영향을 미치며 그에 대한 대응방안이 어떻게 마련되어야 하는지에 대한 관심이 증대되고 있다. 이에 본 연구에서는 탄소세가 부과됨으로 인하여 에너지 다소비 업종인 시멘트산업의 각 에너지원별 사용량에 미치는 파급효과를 시스템 다이내믹스 방법론에 의한 시뮬레이션 모델을 이용하여 분석하였다. 시뮬레이션 모델은 환경모듈, 경제모듈, 에너지모듈로 구성하였고 모델의 예측력 검증을 위해 의태분석을 수행하였다. BAU 시나리오와 탄소세 부과 시나리오를 설정하여 각 시나리오의 총수요의 예측치, 이산화탄소 배출량의 추이, 에너지원의 사용변화를 분석하였다. 본 연구는 향후 기후변화협약의 부담이 큰 에너지 집약산업에 있어서 에너지원의 사용 및 수요를 예측하고 이를 평가하기 위한 지침을 제시할 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.33 no.3
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• pp.1215-1224
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• 2013

Great efforts have been made worldwide to reduce the Green House Gas (GHG) emission following the "Kyoto Protocol" declared during the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in 1997. Many industries have restructured to meet the standard set by the Protocol. However, no clear guidance has been established for the purpose of reducing the GHG emission in construction industry. In addition, no significant effort has been made to conserve the energy during construction activities. For more effective energy saving in construction industry, it is essential to collect data about energy consumption, quantity of environmental emissions and costs. However, most studies on sustainable construction have been concentrated on the use of equipment, maintenance and repair works during construction due to the difficulties of collecting such data. This study suggests a method to select the most environmentally friendly equipment combination for earthwork with comparing environmental loads and costs using the database of Life Cycle Inventory in the Ministry of Knowledge Economy and Ministry of Environment of Korea.

• 월간 기계설비
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• no.11 s.220
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• pp.29-37
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• 2008

최근들어 국제 유가가 급등하고 지구 온난화 등 환경문제가 부각되면서 기존의 에너지를 대체하는 대안으로 신재생 에너지가 전 세계적으로 뜨거운 이슈로 떠오르고 있다. 더구나 온실가스 감축 등 본격적인 환경경제 시대가 도래하면서 환경친화적이고 고갈 염려가 없는 신재생에너지가 효과적인 대안으로 주목받고 있다. 또한 고유가 및 기술개발 가속화도 신재성에너지 시장 확대를 부채질하고 있어 신재생에너지에 대한 관심이 신성장동력으로 집중되고 있다. 이처럼 환경문제 해결에 대한 관심은 '선택'이 아닌 '필수'가 되었다. 우리나라도 국가 차원에서 이산화탄소 배출을 줄이기 위해 '저탄소 녹색성장' 정책을 마련하면서 신재생에너지 확대 보급을 위한 제도 및 대책이 새롭게 마련되고 있다. 건설산업은 대표적인 에너지 다소비업종에 속하기 때문에 이산화탄소 저감을 위해 에너지 저소비형 건축물 연구에 많은 투자를 하고 있으며, 신재생에너지를 이용한 생태토시 조성 등에 노력을 기울이고 있다. 특히 에너지를 다루는 기계설비는 이러한 신재생에너지와 밀접한 관련이 있기에 더욱 관심을 기울이고 있다. 태앙광을 비롯하며 지열, 풍력, 바이오 등 신재생에너지 개발은 물론 빗물이용 시스템 쓰레기 이송 설비와 같은 첨단과 환경이 조화를 이루는 아파트의 보급도 차츰 늘어나고 있는 추세다. '누구의 영역도 아닌' 곳이자 '누구의 영역도 될 수 있는' 신재생에너지가 설비건설업계에 확대, 보급되기 위해서는 설비건설업계의 관심이 집중되어야하며, 기술개발을 활발히 하여 선점경쟁에서 유리 한 고지를 접할 수 있을 것이다. 그렇다면 국내 신재생에너지의 개발 수준은 어디까지 왔을까? 이번 호는 그 현황을 집중 조명해 보고, 다음 호에는 풍력, 바이오에너지, 지열, 연료전자 수소 등을 하나씩 분석해 본다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute Of Construction Engineering and Management
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.233-238
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• 2008

Korea has a high volume of exhaust in environmental pollutants compared to her economic size, which results from the increase of the ratio in high energy consuming industries. There arises an issue that efficient energy saving is not achieved in the related projects of the construction, which is one of the high energy consuming industries. In addition, such projects of dismantling old and decrepit buildings are frequent in recent years. Given the situation, to obtain much better effects of energy saving, it is necessary to build basic databases and develop utilization plans on energy consumption volume, exhaust volume of pollutants, and environmental expenses that come from the dismantlement stages out of the life cycle of construction projects. Therefore, this study calculates the exhaust volume of environmental pollutants, converts it into environmental expenses by pollutants, and evaluates the environmental economics on the projects of dismantling buildings, utilizing LCI DB that is suggested by Ministry of Knowledge Economy and Ministry of Environment. For this purpose, related data research, the existing literature study, and on-the-spot field investigation were conducted. Based on the results of analysis on the collected data, the environmental economics of the target building was evaluated.

• Journal of the Korean Regional Science Association
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• v.33 no.1
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• pp.3-16
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• 2017

This paper analyzed 16 regional total factor energy efficiency (TFEE) of the Korean manufacturing sector using data envelopment analysis method for the period of 2005-2013. According to the empirical results, it is necessary to use TFEE as well as partial energy efficiency defined by the ratio of energy usage to output (energy intensity) when we compare energy efficiency. Secondly, TFEE in the Korean manufacturing sector is quite different across 16 regions. For example, Gangwon province should improve energy efficiency by 55% compared to Seoul, Gwangju, Ulsan, and Gyeongbuk which are located on production frontier. Furthermore, the estimation of panel tobit regression model showed that the higher non fossil fuel using, the higher production share of large-sized firms, the lower energy intensity, and the lower capital-labor ratio could have positive effect on TFEE.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.21 no.7
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• pp.117-123
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• 2007

This paper is about the economic analysis of the replacement of electric facilities in the production facilities. As the interest of energy is increasing, the efficiency of facilities become more important. So, in this paper, we diagnosed facilities, especially electric motors, in the plant and calculated the operating efficiency, power loss with the load factor. And when we replace these facilities into high-efficiency motors, we also calculated new energy efficiency, energy loss and economic analysis through capital recovery factor. As a result, we economically proved that using high-efficiency motor is more beneficial than using non-high-efficiency motors in the model process.