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different tax or subsidy regimes. This paper considers what tax theory has to say about efficient energy tax design. The main … factors for energy taxes are the optimal tariff argument, the need to correct externalities such as global warming, and second …-best considerations for taxing transport fuels as road charges, but these are inadequate to explain current energy taxes. EU energy tax …
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As a unified discipline, econometrics is still relatively young and has been transforming and expanding very rapidly over the past few decades. Major advances have taken place in the analysis of cross sectional data by means of semi-parametric and non-parametric techniques. Heterogeneity of...
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This paper quantitatively explores high-level links between power sector reforms and wider institutional reforms in the economy for a set of 27 diverse countries in rapid political and economic transition since 1990. Panel-data econometrics based on bias corrected dynamic fixed effect analysis...
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This paper considers the prospects for financing a wave of new nuclear power plants (NPP) using project financing, which is used widely in large capital intensive infrastructure investments, including the power and gas sectors, but has not previously been used for nuclear power. It argues that...
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Energy consumption from the residential sector is a complex sociotechnical problem that can be explained using a … (SEM) is introduced to calculate the magnitude and significance of explanatory variables on residential energy consumption … overall effect through direct, indirect and total effects on energy consumption. Using the English House Condition Survey …
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Energy security is one of the main targets of energy policy. However, the term has not been clearly defined, which … energy security. They can be characterized according to the sources of risk, the scope of the impacts, and the severity … leads us to the definition of energy security as the continuity of energy supplies relative to demand. If security is …
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Many governments who preside over liberalised energy markets are developing policies aimed at promoting investment in … presents a dynamic simulation model of the aggregated Great Britain (GB) generation investment market. The short-term energy … in a dynamic model in which generation companies use a Value at Risk (VaR) criterion for investment decisions. An `energy …
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Building on previous stakeholder consultations from 2006 to 2010, we conduct a financial analysis for a generic CCS power plant in China. In comparison with conventional thermal generation technologies, a coal-fired power plant with CCS requires either a 70% higher on-grid electricity tariff or...
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