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The Power to Choose : Demand Response in Liberalised Electricity Markets
2003
Highly volatile electricity prices are becoming a more frequent and unwanted characteristic of modern electricity wholesale markets. But low demand elasticity, mainly the result of a lack of incentives and consumers’ inability to control demand, means that consumer behaviour is not reflected...
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Renewable energy feed-in tariffs
OECD - 20XX
Feed-in tariffs (FITs) are prevalent support policies for scaling up renewable electricity capacity. They are market-based economic instruments, which typically offer long-term contracts that guarantee a price to be paid to a producer of a pre-determined source of electricity per kWh fed into...
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Applying evaluation criteria thoughtfully
OECD - 2021
Relevance, coherence, effectiveness, efficiency, impact, and sustainability are widely used evaluation criteria … them. The criteria were originally laid out in the early 2000s by the Network on Development Evaluation (EvalNet) of the … OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC). Although they have been widely used in evaluation, and beyond, this document …
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Environmental Risks and Insurance : A Comparative Analysis of the Role of Insurance in the Management of Environment-Related Risks
2003
From the increasing incidence of environmental pollution and soil contamination, to recurring natural disasters, the risks posed by the constant interaction between human activities and the environment are diverse, manifold and often catastrophic in their consequences. Therefore, the elaboration...
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Product safety : risk management and cost-benefit analysis
1983
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Experience with controls on international portfolio operations in shares and bonds
1980
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Household financial assets
OECD - 20XX
Financial assets, such as saving depostis, investments in equity, shares and bonds, form an important part of overall wealth of households, and are an important source of revenue, either through the sales of these assets, or as a source of property income (such as interest and dividends)....
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Access Pricing in Telecommunications
2004
This report addresses an issue which arises in virtually every public utility industry - the regulation of access to essential facilities. The regulation of the terms and conditions under which competing firms have access to essential inputs provided by rivals has become the single biggest issue...
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Distributed Generation in Liberalised Electricity Markets
2002
Electric power in OECD countries is mostly produced by large central generating stations, then transmitted along high voltage lines to local distribution systems that carry it to final consumers. Distributed generation plants are different. They produce power on an electricity consumer’s own...
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Environmental policy: Renewable energy feed-in tariffs (Edition 2021)
OECD - 2021
Feed-in tariffs (FITs) are prevalent support policies for scaling up renewable electricity capacity. They are market-based economic instruments, which typically offer long-term contracts that guarantee a price to be paid to a producer of a pre-determined source of electricity per kWh fed into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013377218