Sentence examples for decentralized scale from inspiring English sources

The results, based on 500 iterations sampled from inputs distributions (foreground parameters, ecoinvent background data and market prices), showed a significant advantage of VFU technology, both at a small and decentralized scale and at a large and centralized scale (95% confidence intervals not including zero values).

A decentralized scale of assessment and negotiation is needed to highlight discrepancies between individual and collective objectives, needs, and constraints, and to discuss trade-offs.

Across the United States, decentralizing scales of regulation, scientific uncertainty, and increasing citizen participation are creating new regulatory contexts.

Decentralized small-scale projects range from a few kilowatts (kW) to several hundred kW.

There is a pressing need for these regions to develop decentralized, small-scale water utilities.

Thus, it is evident that utilities have problems creating, delivering, and capturing value from decentralized small-scale renewable energy projects.

A decentralized auto-scaling mechanism was therefore proposed in [131] for the case of homogeneous systems, and was extended for the heterogeneous systems in [132].

On the other hand, utilities focusing on decentralized small-scale renewable energy projects may struggle to achieve a sufficient level of profitability and/or returns are likely to be below those experienced by traditional Austrian utilities.

However, in cold climates, decentralized small-scale composting performance to reach thermophilic temperatures (required for the product sanitization) could be poor, due to a lack of critical mass to retain heat.

Chesbrough [51] argues that it is not the technology itself which is the problem (this is already widely available for decentralized small-scale projects) but rather, as Richter [10] argues, that the problem lies in the fact that the technology requires a completely new value proposition and revenue model compared to traditional utility business models.

This article introduces a collection of papers that provide empirical studies of the impacts that result from changes to established modes of governance: in particular, decentralizing the scale at which state institutions operate or the privatization of service delivery.