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American policy conflict in the hothouse: Exploring the politics of climate inaction and polycentric rebellion

John Byrne, Job Taminiau, Joseph Nyangon. 2022. Energy Research & Social Science, 89:102551. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2022.102551

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Community Solar Governance: Institutional Design and Collective Choice Options: Implications for U.S. Markets

2021. John Byrne, Job Taminiau, Joseph Nyangon, Thomas Benson, Daniel Cristinzio, and Robert Ddamulira. Community Solar Governance: Institutional Design and Collective Choice Options: Implications for U.S. Markets. Research report by the Foundation for Renewable Energy and Environment and the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3914111

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Risk Mitigation in Energy Efficiency Retrofit Projects using Automated Performance Control

2021. Job Taminiau, John Byrne, Daniel Sanchez Carretero, Soojin Shin, and Jing Xu. Risk Mitigation in Energy Efficiency Retrofit Projects using Automated Performance Control. In: Nyangon, J. Byrne, J. (eds.), Sustainable Energy Investment: Technical, Market and Policy Innovations to Address Risk. London, UK: IntechOpen.

 

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Infrastructure-scale sustainable energy planning in the cityscape: Transforming urban energy metabolism in East Asia

2021. Job Taminiau, John Byrne, Jongkyu Kim, Min-Whi Kim, and Jeongseok Seo. Infrastructure-scale sustainable energy planning in the cityscape: Transforming urban energy metabolism in East Asia. WIRE Energy and Environment, https://doi.org/10.1002/wene.397

 

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Navigating the Changing Landscape of Community Solar in Delaware: Policy Designs and Governance Frameworks to Support Community-Owned Sustainable Energy

2020. John Byrne, Joseph Nyangon, Steven Hegedus, Job Taminiau, Pengyu Li, Oscar de Paz, and Karice Redhead. Navigating the Changing Landscape of Community Solar in Delaware: Policy Designs and Governance Frameworks to Support Community-Owned Sustainable Energy. SSRN Electronic Journal, http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.33958.55369

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City-scale urban sustainability: Spatiotemporal mapping of distributed solar power for New York City

2020. Job Taminiau and John Byrne. City-scale urban sustainability: Spatiotemporal mapping of distributed solar power for New York
City. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Energy and Environment. DOI: 10.1002/wene.374

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The rise and fall of green growth: Korea’s energy sector experiment and its lessons for sustainable energy policy

2019. Yoon-Hee Ha and John Byrne. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Energy and Environment. https://doi.org/10.1002/wene.335

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Risk mitigation in energy efficiency retrofit projects using automated monitoring and verification techniques

2019. John Byrne, Job Taminiau, Daniel Sanchez Carretero, Soojin Shin, Jing Xu. Technical Report Prepared for the Delaware General Assembly. Center for Energy and Environmental Policy, University of Delaware.

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Multivariate analysis of solar city economics: impact of energy prices, policy, finance, and cost on urban photovoltaic power plant implementation

2019. John Byrne, Job Taminiau, Kyung N. Kim, Joohee Lee and Jeongseok Seo. In Advances in Energy Systems: The Large-scale Renewable Energy Integration Challenge, First Edition. Edited by Peter D. Lund, John Byrne, Reinhard Haas and Damian Flynn.

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Reflections on the state of climate change policy from COP21 to cities

2018. Manfred Fischedick, John Byrne, Lukas Hermwille, Job Taminiau, Hans-Jochen Luhmann, Franziska Stelzer, and Daniel Vallentin. In Rethinking Environmentalism: Linking Justice, Sustainability, and Diversity by Sharachchandra Lele, Eduardo S. Brondizio, John Byrne, Georgina M. Mace, and Joan Martinez-Alier (eds.) Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ISBN 9780262038966.

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Energy and climate change

2018. Sun-Jin Yun, John Byrne, Lucy Baker, Patrick Bond, Götz Kaufmann, Hans-Jochen Luhmann, Peter D. Lund, Joan Martinez-Alier, and Fuqiang Yang. In Rethinking Environmentalism: Linking Justice, Sustainability, and Diversity Sharachchandra Lele, Eduardo S. Brondizio, John Byrne, Georgina M. Mace, and Joan Martinez-Alier (eds.), Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ISBN 9780262038966.

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Seoul’s sustainable energy action planning: Lesson for cities

2017. John Byrne and Yun Sun-Jin. In One Less Nuclear Power Plant (OLNPP) Reframing Urban Energy Policy: Challenges and Opportunities in the City Seoul. Published by Mayor of Seoul Metropolitan Government, Seoul, South Korea: Seoul Metropolitan Government.

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Are solar cities feasible? A review of current research.

2017. John Byrne, Job Taminiau, Jeongseok Seo, Joohee Lee and Soojin Shin. International Journal of Urban Sciences: 1-18. Doi.org/10.1080/12265934.2017.1331750.

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Measuring urban sustainability through common indicators and peer city benchmarking: Assessing sustainability assets for performance improvement and economic and environmental progress in Delaware

2017. John Byrne, Joseph Nyangon, Hannah Deblauwe, Chris Oster, Soojin Shin, Jing Xu, Job Taminiau and Michael Chajes. Technical Report Prepared for the Delaware General Assembly. Center for Energy and Environmental Policy, University of Delaware. SSRN Electronic Journal.

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Multivariate analysis of solar city economics: impact of energy prices, policy, finance, and cost on urban photovoltaic power plant implementation.

2017. John Byrne, Job Taminiau, Kyung Nam Kim, Jeongseok Seo. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Energy and Environment e241 doi: 10.1002/wene.241

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Sustainable business model innovation: Using polycentric and creative climate change governance

2017. J. Taminiau, J. Nyangon, A.S. Lewis and J. Byrne. In Collective Creativity for Responsible and Sustainable Business Practice, Ziska Fields ed. Hershey, PA: IGI Global. Pp. 140-159 doi: 10.4018/978-1-5225-1823-5.ch008

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A solar city strategy applied to six municipalities: integrating market, finance, and policy factors for infrastructure-scale photovoltaic development in Amsterdam, London, Munich, New York, Seoul, and Tokyo

2016. John Byrne, Job Taminiau, Kyung Nam Kim, Jeongseok Seo and Joohee Lee. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Energy and Environment, v5: 68–88. doi: 10.1002/wene.182.

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Urban energy transformation through solar city strategies

2016. Job Taminiau, Joseph Nyangon, Jeongseok Seo, Joohee Lee, and John Byrne. Policy Brief Prepared for Foundation for Renewable Energy and Environment, New York, NY.

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A Polycentric Response to the Climate Change Challenge Relying on Creativity, Innovation, and Leadership

2015. Job Taminiau and John Byrne. Position paper prepared for the Twenty-first Session of the Conference of Parties (COP-21), held in Paris, France to negotiate an agreed outcome under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change to ramp-up climate mitigation and adaptation worldwide. Newark, DE: Center for Energy and Environmental Policy.

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A Review of the Solar City Concept and Methods to Assess Rooftop Solar Electric Potential, with an Illustrative Application to the City of Seoul

2015. John Byrne, Job Taminiau, Lado Kurdgelashvili and Kyung Nam Kim. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Vol. 41, 830–844.

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Drivers for Change

2014. 2014. Job Taminiau, Y-D. Wang and John Byrne. In Byrne and Wang, eds. Green Energy Economics. London & New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers. Pp. 349-360.

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Social Change to Avert Further Climate Change: Defining the Scale of Change and Principles to Guide a New Strategy

2012. J. Byrne, L. Kurdgelashvili and J. B. Taminiau. WIREs Energy and Environment Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 17-40.

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Energy Strategies to Confront Climate Change.

2012. P. Lund and J. Byrne. WIREs Energy and Environment Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 1-2.

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High Efficiency Photovoltaics: On the Way to Becoming a Major Electricity Source

2012. X. Wang, J. Byrne, L. Kurdgelashvili and A. Barnett. WIREs Energy and Environment Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 132-151.

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A Reformulation of ‘Success’ in the Climate Change Negotiations

2012. J. B. Taminiau and J. Byrne. Joint Implementation Quarterly (JIQ) Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 11-14. Full magazine can found at: jiqweb.org

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Shifting from the Economics of Obesity to Sustainable Energy

2010. John Byrne, Francis Hodsoll and Kristen Hughes. Renewable Energy World. February 22.

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Sustainable Energy Utilities: New Energy Strategy for the New Climate

Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society, Vol. 29, No. 2: 79-163. Special issue edited by J. Byrne.

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Relocating Energy in the Social Commons: Ideas for a Sustainable Energy Utility

2009. John Byrne, Cecilia Martinez and Colin Ruggero. Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society, Vol. 29, No. 2: 81-94.

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The Sustainable Energy Utility: a Delaware First

2007. John Byrne, et al. A Report to the Delaware State Legislature by the Sustainable Energy Utility Task Force.

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American policy conflict in the greenhouse: Divergent trends in federal, regional, state, and local green energy and climate change policy.

2007. John Byrne, Kristen Hughes, Wilson Rickerson, and Lado Kurdgelashvili. Energy Policy, Vol. 35, No. 9 (September): 4555-4573. Chinese

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Can Cities Sustain Life in the Greenhouse?

2006. J. Byrne, K. Hughes, N. Toly and Y-D. Wang. Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society, Vol. 26, No. 2. Pp. 84-95.

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Assessing the Potential Extent of Carsharing: A New Method and Its Implications.

2005. Thomas Schuster, John Byrne, James Corbett, and Yda Schreuder. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 1927: 174-181.

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Reclaiming the Atmospheric Commons: Beyond Kyoto.

2004. John Byrne, Leigh Glover et al. In Climate Change: Five Years after Kyoto, V. Grover ed. Enfield, NH: Science Publishers. Pp. 429-452.

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Enhancement of Sustainability in Cities through Water Conservation: the Case of Wilmington Metropolitan City, Delaware.

2004. Young-Doo Wang, Michael Scozzafava, John Byrne, Sara Wozniak, Myung Soo Yoo, Molly Hesson and Alexander Waegel. In The Sustainable City III, N. Marchettini, et al., ed. WIT Press. Pp. 593-602.

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The Potential of Solar Electric Power for Meeting Future U.S. Energy Needs: A Comparison of Projections of Solar Electric Energy Generation and Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Oil Production

2004. John Byrne, Lado Kurdgelashvili, Daniele Poponi and Allen Barnett. Energy Policy. Vo. 32, No. 2: 289-297.

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An Institutional Approach to River Basin Management: Conflict resolution in the U.S. and South Korea.

2003. Y-D. Wang, K-Y. Lee, J. Byrne, W. J. Smith, Jr., et al. Proceedings
of the American Water Resources Association 2003 International Congress (CD-Rom:
1-9). June 29-July 2, 2003.

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Less Energy, a Better Economy, and a Sustainable South Korea: An Energy Efficiency Scenario Analysis.

2002. Young-Doo Wang, John Byrne et al. Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society. Vol 22, No. 2: 110-122.

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A Common Future or Towards a Future Commons: Globalization and Sustainable Development since UNCED

2002. John Byrne and Leigh Glover. International Review for Environmental Strategies. Vol. 3, No. 1: 5-25.

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Community Participation is Key to Environmental Justice in Brownfields

2001. John Byrne, Raymond Scattone et al. Race, Poverty and the Environment. Vo. 3, No. 1
(Winter): 6-7. (Cover)

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Off-Grid Renewable Energy Options for Rural Electrification in Western China

2001. John Byrne, Young-Doo Wang, Bo Shen, et al. Prepared for the National Renewable
Energy Laboratory. Newark, DE: Center for Energy and Environmental Policy.

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An Equity- and Sustainability-Based Policy Response to Global Climate Change.

John Byrne, Young-Doo Wang, Hoesung Lee and Jong-dall Kim. 1998. Energy Policy. Vol. 26,
No. 4: 335-343.

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Equity and Sustainability in the Greenhouse: Reclaiming Our Atmospheric Commons.

1997. John Byrne. Parisar: Pune, India.

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Community versus Commodity: Environmental Protest in Taiwan.

1996. J. Byrne and Shih Jung Hsu. Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society. Vol. 16, No. 5 & 6: 329-336.

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Sustainable Urban Development Strategies for China.

1994. John Byrne, Young-Doo Wang, Bo Shen and Xiuguo Li. Environment and Urbanization Vol. 6, No. 1: 174-187.

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Letter from America: Lewis Mumford and the Living City

1990. J. Byrne, D. Rich and C. Martinez. Regional Studies Association. Newsletter No. 167: 2-5.

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Centralization, Technicization and Development on the Semi-periphery: A Study of South Korea’s Commitment to Nuclear Power

1990. J-D. Kim and J. Byrne. Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society. Vol. 10: 212-222.

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Energy and Cities

1985 John Byrne and Daniel Rich, eds. New Brunswick , NJ and London : Transaction Publishers.

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The Post-Industrial Imperative: Energy, Cities and the Featureless Plain.

1985. J. Byrne, C. Martinez and D. Rich. In J. Byrne and D. Rich, eds. Energy and Cities. New Brunswick ,
NJ and London : Transaction Publishers. Pp. 101-141.

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The Solar Energy Transition: Implementation and Policy Implications.

1983. D. Rich, J. Veigel, A. Barnett and J. Byrne, eds. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

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The Solar Energy Transition as a Problem of Political Economy

1983. John Byrne and Daniel Rich. In Rich, Veigel, Barnett and Byrne, eds. The Solar Energy Transition:Implementation and Policy Implications. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. Pp. 163-186.

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ORCID iD iconJohn Byrne is Director and Distinguished Professor of Energy and Climate Policy, University of Delaware. He is also President of the Foundation for Renewable Energy & Environment (FREE). The Foundation was created in 2011 with a mission of promoting a better future based on energy, water and materials conservation, renewable energy use, environmental resilience, and sustainable livelihoods.

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