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Energy is central to achieving sustainable social and economic development. As a matter of fact, it is not possible to achieve economic growth to satisfy current basic needs of Humanity without an intensive use of energy. On the other side, one of the main challenges for the use of energy in the negative effects of greenhouse gases on the global climates. Europe needs a greater security of supply and to achieve this goal it is necessary to competitive markets and efficient regulations. It also necessary to diversify energy mix and renewable energy sources could contribute to this objective. This paper presents the work performed by the Research Group on Energy and Sustainable Development of the Instituto Superior Técnico of the Technical University of Lisbon on new and renewable energy sources for sustainable development.
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Carvalho, M.d.G., Alves, L.M. (2007). Towards a Clean Energy for the Future — the Research Group on Energy and Sustainable Development of Ist. In: Pereira, M.S. (eds) A Portrait of State-of-the-Art Research at the Technical University of Lisbon. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5690-1_22
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