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Despite the extensive body of literature on energy economics, very little economics research has been conducted that focuses specifically on dams and hydroelectric power. Brian Edwards addresses this deficiency by examining the multiple roles that dams play, as well as the role of hydroelectric...
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research issues in this topical field of economics. Themes addressed include the theory of energy supply, demand and policy …, empirical modelling of energy demand, holistic energy models, an analysis of coal, gas, electricity, oil and the 'markets …Introduction / Joanne Evans and Lester C Hunt -- 1. A brief history of energy / Roger Fouquet -- 2. The theory of …
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economic impacts of attacks on major US theme parks / Harry W. Richardson... [et al.] -- Worst case electricity scenarios : the …-sided electricity markets : self-healing systems / Richard E. Schuler. …
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margin to the centre : pricing electricity -- Electricity investment : rewarding the past, discounting the future …Martin Chick's book is a major economic and historical study of the development of electricity and energy policy in …
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efficiency of electricity markets. These include the impact of long-term contracts and vertical integration on effective …
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pt. I. Proposals for achieving the European Union electricity market by 2009 -- pt. II. Assessment of core issues in … the making of the European Union electricity market -- pt. III. In-depth studies of three challenges for the European … Union electricity market (measuring market power, convergence of wholesale prices and energy policy) …
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This book responds to the opening up of electricity markets to competition, which has completely changed the nature of …Investments in competitive electricity markets : an overview / François Lévêque -- Investment and generation capacity … / Richard Green -- Generation technology mix in competitive electricity markets / Jean-Michel Glachant -- Problems of …
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Why do power prices seem to be correlated with the carbon price in some markets and not in others? This crucial question is at the centre of Francesco Gullì's enlightening book, through which the contributing authors investigate a number of related issues. In particular, they explore why power...
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political preferences, and regards the economist's utilitarian social welfare theory as instrumental to the achievement of … indeterminacy of social welfare theory's fundamental theoretical constructs. In contrast, the author shows that Kant's 'two points … grounded in Kant's 'two points of view', that utilitarian social welfare theory cannot be instrumental to the achievement of …
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This volume is the latest in an annual series, published in association with the Institute of Economic Affairs and the London Business School, which provides an up-to-date review of the state of utility regulation in Britain, with some relevant overseas comparisons. The book, edited and with an...
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