Mohammad Alipour

Griffith University

Widespread use of promising solar energy is an integral attribute of governments toward global efforts in mitigating future emission and reducing the fossil fuel consumption trajectory. However, the outlook of solar energy development at the strategic level is driven by inherent uncertainties in a long-term perspective. As these unpredictable volat...

The successful diffusion of rooftop solar photovoltaics (SPV) in residential sector depends on the decisions of bounded rational households to accept this technology. Such heterogeneous decision is formed by socio-demographic, economic and technical predictors interwoven with a variety of behavioural traits. Over the past years, these exogenous and...

The effectiveness of deployment policies to promote the uptake of residential rooftop solar photovoltaic systems ultimately hinges on the behaviour of households who decide to accept or reject the technology. Over the past years, research has strived to understand, designate significant predictors, model the behaviour of heterogeneous households, a...

While fuel cell combined with hydrogen (FCH) technology is still largely in its infancy striving to find its footing, the present market stage towards commercialisation is bridged by the pervasive research and development (R&D) and innovation. Providing spare parts and auxiliary components of the FCH systems plays a significant role in advancing th...

Understanding the residential adoption decision of battery energy storage systems (BESSs) is central to the implementation of successful intervention policies. However, when the residential solar photovoltaics (PV) becomes a widely accepted technology across a society, accurately modelling the behaviour shows a higher degree of complexity. In this...

When residential rooftop solar photovoltaic (PV) systems are widely accepted across society, the uptake of home battery energy storage systems is closely tied to the PV-status quo and the behaviour previously taken by households. This study proposes that a decision of acceptance or rejection of PV systems is the past behaviour of the battery adopti...

Previous studies show that in a mature solar photovoltaic (PV) market, the choice to accept or reject PV is closely related to battery adoption decision. This study presents the results of a survey (n = 604) conducted to investigate the household characteristics and relative importance of motivations and barriers in home battery and PV adoption dec...

Research studies published over the past decade provide insight to the methods and focus of long-terms natural gas predictions recently proposed and adopted. A search-engine-based research study location protocol identified 107 studies that had focused on such predictions. By applying filters 45 relevant studies were found to address appropriate ti...

The successful deployment of the solar water heater (SWH) in the residential sector relies on the household's bounded rational decision-makers to accept this system. The decision is shaped by a wide spectrum of predictors that form heterogeneous behaviour. Over the past years, research has employed a wide range of these predictors to understand the...

Long-term sustainable wind energy deployment faces an array of challenges due to various complex interconnected impediment factors. These inherent endogenous and exogenous uncertainties preclude obtaining an accurate future trend, which in turn complicates the design of the good policy. This study employs Fuzzy Cognitive Maps (FCMs) to semi-quantit...

Wind energy is undoubtedly an essential generation source required to achieve a transformative renewable energy supply portfolio. However, long-term sustainable wind energy deployment faces various challenges due to various complex interconnected impediment factors. These inherent endogenous and exogenous uncertainties preclude obtaining an accurat...

Coral reefs are among the most fragile ecosystems that provide essential services to local Small Island Developing States (SIDS) communities. As such, exploring the characteristics and interactions shaping regime shifts of coral reefs is of paramount importance in managing system pressures; enhancing resilience; aiding their regeneration and recove...

The objective of this research is to assess long-term energy security policy under uncertain environment. Uncertainty is an integral part of the energy policy analysis in long-term planning, in particular for energy-exporting countries seeking to secure sustainable export revenues. This study proposes a framework to evaluate energy export policy at...

Energy is central to improved social and economic wellbeing and is indispensable to most industrial and commercial wealth generations. It is the main factor for relieving poverty, improving human welfare, and raising living standards. Located in the Middle East, Iran holds the world’s second largest natural gas reserves and the OPEC’s fourth larges...

Strategic studies are of high importance in every business administration. Some of them, like strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats (SWOT), can be used widely. However, uncertainty is always considered as a major obstacle for extracting strategies from these techniques. On the other hand, introduction of fuzzy logic facilitates the connecti...

Strategic studies are of high importance in every business administration. Some of them, like strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats (SWOT), can be used widely. However, uncertainty is always considered as a major obstacle for extracting strategies from these techniques. On the other hand, introduction of fuzzy logic facilitates the connecti...

This paper proposes an improved critical chain method with fuzzy approach to schedule projects under uncertainty. Utilizing fuzzy numbers can be wise because of the natural uncertainty in estimation of required work to accomplish the project tasks. To minimize the project duration as an objective taking into account resource limitations and other c...

In today's competitive dynamic world/markets, providing a desirable framework for exploring future perspectives is a crucial challenge to support robust decision making and proper policy making process. This research proposes a novel framework that develops plausible future energy scenarios through the Fuzzy Cognitive Map (FCM) technique. As a new...

With the historic nuclear agreement now in effect, Iran’s energy sector expects a new transformation to spark back into life. The government seeks to recover the years of backwardness by capital injections and attract foreign cash into the sector long starved of investment. In this respect, an appropriate and convenient resource allocation scheme i...

Hydrogen combined with fuel cell (FC) technology has been widely discussed as a long-term fuel option to address environmental and energy security concerns. Iran, despite outlining a long-term plan to develop its renewable energies’ (REs) infrastructures, is faced with difficulties in deploying fuel cell hydrogen (FCH). These obstacles—led by lack...

With the heightened awareness of global environmental issues of greenhouse gas emissions by fossil fuels as non-renewable energy resources, the application of renewable energies (REs) has emerged as one of the most significant policies in most of the countries throughout the world. Although Iran is blessed with high potential of RE resources such a...

Lean production has become an integral part of the manufacturing landscape as its link with superior performance and its ability to provide competitive advantage is well accepted among academics and practitioners. Lean production helps producers in overcoming the challenges organizations face through using powerful tools and enablers. However, most...

Energy resources in Iran consist of the fourth largest oil reserves and the second largest natural gas reserves in the world. At present, due to political reasons, the investment trend does not go over well. Based on the Fifth Development Strategy, Iran needs $200 billion of investment in the country's first industry (i.e. oil), and given the objec...