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Malmo ¨, 274e275 2600-MW Mambilla Hydroelectric Power
Rotterdam, 275e276, 276f Plant, 486e487
Va ¨xjo ¨, 270e271, 271f
SWH. See Solar water heater (SWH) U
SWM. See Solid waste management (SWM)
SWOT analysis of UAE market, 410e411 UAE. See United Arab Emirates (UAE)
Symbolic interactionism, 40, 43e46 UCI. See University of California, Irvine
Symbolic interactionist perspective, 46 (UCI)
Syngas, 95e96 Umbrella plan, 434e435, 435f
UNFCCC. See United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change
T (UNFCCC)
Tacotal collective, 462e463 Unified Building Law (2008), 481
Tahiti, 413 United Arab Emirates (UAE), 374e377
solution, 419 business ventures and financial sector
Tariff degression, 577 banking sector, 389e398
Tax/taxation, 577 business cooperation between UAE and
of off-shore oil, 580 Poland, 403e410
shifting, 17, 579e580 investment bodies, 381e382
Technical regulation, 103 key players of financial market,
Technological feasibility studies, 221 398e403
10-MW Katsina Wind Project, 486e487 SMEs and government financial support,
Theorizing firm, 48e49 376e379
Thermal energy-based systems, 94 sustainable development, 373e374
Thin-film technologies, 93 sustainable growth, 374
Third Industrial Revolution (3IR), 4, 68e69, doing business in, 379e380
112, 329 factors determining expansion of polish
Third-generation grid, historical review and enterprises in, 408e409
attributes of, 126e127 legal aspects of conducting business
3-MW system, 418 activity, 382e388
Ticos y Ticas mobilizing, 467 SWOT analysis of UAE market,
Tidal power devices, 16e17 410e411
Tierra Verde, 464 United Nations (UN), 2e3, 131, 373e374,
Time of use (TOU), 151 471
rates and air-conditioning cycling, 186 United Nations Development Programme,
Tortuguero National Park, 460 481
Total Resource Cost Test (TRC Test), 176, United Nations Framework Convention on
191e192, 199, 202e204. See also Climate Change (UNFCCC),
Program Administrator Cost test (PAC 172e173
test) United States, 538
formulas, 195e196 data response and power transmission
results, 192e194 lines, 119e121, 120f
strengths, 194e195 renewable energy sources and energy usage
weakness, 195 in, 89e90
TOU. See Time of use (TOU) scaling renewables in, 98e99
Traditional anthropological methods, 45 solar power, 116
Traditional carbon-based fossil fuel, 111 wind power, 90e92
Traditional production approach, 503 Universal energy access, 99
Transformational grammar, 43 University of California, Irvine (UCI), 557
Transformational linguistics, 46e47 UNOCAL, 335
Transport/transportation, 139, 368 Urban circular economy, 237
infrastructure strategy, 368e369 big cities examples, 237e240
TRC Test. See Total Resource Cost Test circular economy and impacts on citizens’
(TRC Test) day-to-day life, 244