In recent years, renewable energy technologies have been advocated in Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in the …-cost, low-risk technologies such as energy efficiency, geothermal, biomass and bagasse technologies are found to lower both …

the market a decisive role in allocating resources. To have the market to play that role, getting the energy prices right … is crucial because it sends clear signals to both producers and consumers of energy. While the overall trend of ChinaÕs … energy pricing reform since 1984 has been moving away from the pricing completely set by the central government in the …

There is a growing body of literature mentioning the slow pace of energy technological progress as compared to other … technologies like information technology (IT), but the reasons why energy sector is perplexed by slow innovation remain unexplained … the mechanism that underlies the slow progress of energy technological innovation. We show that in decentralized market …

The issue of energy security has been a subject of discussions in Indonesia for a long time. However, until the end of … domestic prices of fuel and electricity through subsidies. With approximately 43 percent of the country's energy sources … derived from crude oil, the amount of government spending on energy subsidies increased from almost nothing in 1996 to …

Interfuel substitutability has been of longstanding interest to the energy economics and policy community. However, no …

set on energy and economic growth from Sweden spanning 150 years to determine whether increases in energy use and energy … with larger samples are more likely to show that energy causes output growth but it is also possible that the relationship … between energy and growth has changed over time. Energy prices have a significant causal impact on both energy use and output …

Physics shows that energy is necessary for economic production and, therefore, economic growth but the mainstream … theory of economic growth, except for specialized resource economics models, pays no attention to the role of energy. This …. A possible synthesis of energy-based and mainstream models is presented. This model shows that when energy is scarce it …

Though there is a very large literature examining whether energy use Granger causes economic output or vice versa this … causality and cointegration techniques to a Swedish time series data set on energy and economic growth spanning 150 years to … test whether increases in energy use and energy quality have driven economic growth. We show that these techniques are very …