• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제54권2호
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• pp.741-748
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• 2022

Policy literacy plays a critical role in enhancing deliberative communication among the public, policymakers, and experts. It also helps develop a positive view of policy by the public, which facilitates public acceptance. Despite its importance, however, policy literacy has received little attention in energy policy practice. Therefore, this study explores factors affecting the public's understanding and knowledge (i.e., policy literacy) of nuclear and new-renewable energy policies. Accordingly, we analyzed data from an online survey of 790 laypeople in Korea. Specifically, we examined the effects of trust, transparency, and policy public relations (PR) on the policy literacy of the public regarding the two alternative energy sources. The analysis revealed that people showed higher policy literacy about the alternative sources when provided with more transparent information and exposed to more policy PR activities. However, we found that trust in energy plant operators played a negligible role in improving policy literacy for both energy sources. Based on these findings, we developed some policy suggestions to secure the energy policy literacy of the public.

• Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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• 제45권4호
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• pp.147-153
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• 2020

Background: Malawi's 2018 National Energy Policy includes nuclear power as an energy option with an operational 100 MW targeted for 2035. Materials and Methods: This paper challenges the scope of the policy on nuclear power by reviewing its implementation strategy and comparing it to: the strategy established for coal in the same policy; some experiences from other countries; and documents by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) relating to establishing a national position on nuclear power and infrastructural requirements for a nuclear power program. Results and Discussion: It is found that the pro-nuclear position is uninformed, and targets are unrealistic owing to a lack of understanding of nature of nuclear power including the requirements for safety, security and safeguards, and nuclear infrastructure. It is apparent that neither consultation nor a proper analysis were comprehensively conducted for nuclear. Though the national energy policy suggests a national position for nuclear energy, the content does not demonstrate that the position was arrived at knowledgeably. Conclusion: Thus, nuclear power may presently be viewed as a potential energy option that is yet to be seriously considered. It is important to build an appropriate level of literacy on nuclear science and technology for policy makers, key stakeholders, and the public to be better positioned for strategizing on nuclear power.

• 한국경제지리학회지
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.528-542
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• 2013

이 글은 독일을 사례로 기후변화에 대응하여 국가 차원에서 추진하고 있는 에너지정책의 방향과 전략 그리고 수단 등을 고찰해 보고자 한다. 이 연구를 통해 밝혀질 독일의 기후변화에 대응한 에너지정책은 온실가스의 배출을 줄이고 에너지자원 위기를 극복하기 위해 노력하고 있는 우리나라의 에너지정책에도 적잖은 시사점을 제공할 것이다. 독일의 에너지정책은 기본적으로 에너지 경쟁력 확보, 에너지 공급의 안전성 보장, 친환경적 에너지 이용이라는 3대 정책기조를 확립하고 이를 달성하기 위해 2050년까지의 구체적인 지향 목표를 설정하고, 에너지 절감과 효율 증진과 재생에너지 이용 확대의 2대 중점 전략적 과제를 추진하고 있다. 이에 따라 에너지 관련 제도의 지속적인 개편 및 다양한 정책적 수단을 개발하여 시행하고 있다.

• Asian Journal of Innovation and Policy
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.208-224
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• 2016

The Korean government considers expanding the WtE share of total energy from 1% to 5% by 2020 through research and development (R&D) in waste-to-energy (WtE) technologies. This study attempts to measure the external benefits of investing in R&D in these technologies. To this end, a contingent valuation (CV) is employed. More specifically, a 2016 national survey of randomly selected 1,000 households was carried out across the nation to gauge the willingness to pay (WTP) for the investment. One-and-one-half-bounded dichotomous choice question was used in the CV survey, and the spike model was applied to dealing with zero WTP responses. The mean yearly WTP is estimated to be KRW 4,175 (USD 3.57) per household, which is statistically significant at the 1% level. Expanding the value to the entire nation translates into an investment of about KRW 79.1 billion (USD 67.6 million), which can be interpreted as the annual external benefit of the R&D investment in WtE technology.

• 한국경제지리학회지
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.135-148
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• 2013

이 글은 최근 논란이 되고 있는 기후변화에 대응한 에너지정책을 살펴보는 데 그 목적이 있다. 이 글은 특히 선진국 가운데서도 독일을 사례로 기후변화에 대응하여 국가 차원에서 추진하고 있는 에너지 정책의 방향과 전략 그리고 수단 등을 고찰해 보고자 한다. 이 연구를 통해 밝혀질 독일의 기후변화에 대응한 에너지정책은 온실가스의 배출을 줄이고 에너지자원 위기를 극복하기 위해 노력하고 있는 우리나라의 에너지정책에도 시사점을 제공할 것이다. 이 연구는 이러한 연구 목적을 위해 먼저 독일의 에너지 수급과 소비 현황 그리고 온실가스의 배출 현황 추이 등을 검토하고, 이어서 독일의 에너지정책의 역사적 전개과정을 논의하고자 한다.

• 지식경영연구
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.195-221
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• 2023

전 세계적인 에너지·기후 위기는 각국의 이해관계가 복잡하게 얽혀있어 글로벌 대응이 필수적인 아젠다임이 최근 다시금 환기되고 있다. 특히, 우리나라는 에너지 수입의존도가 높고 에너지 다소비·저효율 소비 및 온실가스 다(多) 배출구조가 지속되고 있어 에너지효율 및 탄소중립 달성을 위한 혁신적이고 실효성 있는 에너지정책이 절실하다고 하겠다. 본 연구에서는 우리나라에 1980년대 중반 집단에너지 방식이 도입된 이후의 분산형 집단에너지 정책변동 중 "국가 열(熱) 지도 사업" 정책 추진사례를 수정 다중흐름모형으로 분석하고자 한다. 연구 대상 기간인 이명박-박근혜 정부의 10년간은 에너지정책의 주된 패러다임이 "분산형 에너지플랫폼"으로 전환하는 데 있어 정책의제 설정과 정책 표류, 정책수정의 전환이 이루어졌던 기간으로서 연구에 의미가 있을 것이다.

• 에너지공학
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.36-41
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• 2014

The world's overall need for natural gas (NG) has been growing up fast, especially in the residential sector. The better the estimation of residential NG consumption (RNGC) distribution, the better decision-making for a residential NG policy such as pricing, demand estimation, management options and so on. Approximating the distribution of RNGC is complicated by zero observations in the sample. To deal with the zero observations by allowing a point mass at zero, a mixture model of RNGC distributions is proposed and applied. The RNGC distribution is specified as a mixture of two distributions, one with a point mass at zero and the other with full support on the positive half of the real line. The model is empirically verified for household RNGC survey data collected in Korea. The mixture model can easily capture the common bimodality feature of the RNGC distribution. In addition, when covariates were added to the model, it was found that the probability that a household has non-expenditure significantly varies with some variables. Finally, the goodness-of-fit test suggests that the data are well represented by the mixture model.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신재생에너지학회 2009년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.289-292
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• 2009

This paper reviewed laws and policies of renewable energy in Japan and China. Japan has enacted laws and implemented policies of renewable energy since 1980 for their energy security and environmental problem, and nowadays renewable energy is one of solutions for UNFCCC and Kyoto Protocol. Japan plays a leading role in photovoltaic power generation. As second largest energy consumer, China generates a lot of pollution from their energy use. However Chinese government attempts to sustainable development among economy, society and environment, suggests to use renewable energy in the way to reduce pollution and improve living standards. Korea focused on renewable energy as one of motive power in Green Growth. Review for renewable energy policy of two countries gives Korean policy implication and helps "Green Growth", national theme of Korea.

• 아태비즈니스연구
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.87-103
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• 2019

In December 2017, the Moon Jae-in administration announced a major policy shift away from nuclear and coal, committing itself to the vision of creating a society where renewable sources account for 20% of its electricity generation by 2030. This energy transition involves not just a technical transition from conventional energy sources to renewable energy but also active participation of multiple stakeholders in the energy governance. While energy policy making has long been dominated by the central government in Korea with the aim of managing the supply for rapid industrialization and economic growth, the Moon administration aims to diffuse the central government's authority across various actors in society. Among those actors, this study focuses on the roles that local governments play in energy transition. Despite deepening local autonomy since 1995, Korean local governments have remained policy targets or recipients in the energy policy domain. This article discusses how such a traditional role has evolved under the new administration's energy transition policy and examines what challenges and limitations local governments face in creating a more decentralized energy governance system.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제67권8호
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• pp.1009-1018
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• 2018

As the generation of renewable energy increases rapidly, the stability of the grid due to its intermittency becomes a problem. The most appropriate way to solve this problem is to combine and operate the renewable generators with the ESS(Energy Storage System). However, since the revenues of operating the ESS are less than the investment cost, many countries are implementing various incentive policies for encouraging investment of the ESS. In this paper we estimated optimal capacity of the ESS to maximize profits of renewable energy generation businesses under the incentive policy of Korea and analyzed the impact of the incentive policy on the future electric power system of Jeju island. The simulation results show that the incentive policy has significantly improved the profitability of the renewable energy businesses generation business. But the volatility of the net demand has increased as the energy stored in the ESS is discharged intensively at the time of the incentive application.