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This paper describes the current state of the Macedonian electricity sector. It looks at ongoing structural changes …, driven by the gradual adoption of the EU acquis on energy, and comes up with estimates for electricity subsidies. It …
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A cost-minimizing electricity market model was used to explore optimized infrastructures for the integration of … electricity exports out of North Africa to Europe or Eastern Mediterranean regions, however, were not observed in the regime of … integrated electricity markets until 2030, and could only be realized by much higher levels of renewable energy penetration than …
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This paper presents the evolution of the environmental licensing process in Brazil, with focus on transmission lines, identifying and evaluating its critical aspects. For this purpose, we analyze the modalities of insertion of the environmental variable in planning for the Brazilian electric...
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Driving infrastructure development, notably mobilizing financial resources for infrastructure projects, has been challenging in many countries. This study includes two parts: an empirical analysis of macroeconomic risks associated with infrastructure booms, and a case study of four emerging...
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as consisting of the three subsectors of crude oil and natural gas production, refinery, and electricity production. It … electricity sector, and inefficient government subsidies in the latter two subsectors. …
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China's industrial transformation of the past thirty years, when its GDP has been increasing by an average of 10% per year, has been underpinned by an energy industrial revolution. Electrical energy is the driver of this transformation, with China utilizing latecomer advantages in building an...
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enormous potential for electricity generation, their recreational value and as an important ecosystem. There have been … clean electricity generation and greenhouse gas reductions. We identify a number of important issues that emerged in the …
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energy prices, we find electricity prices––relative to oil and gas––to be more important in the manufacturing process …, with a one standard deviation reduction in electricity prices leading to a 2.8 percent increase in manufacturing output …. Our estimated elasticities together with plausible reductions in electricity tariffs derived from the energy reform, could …
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This paper analyses the potential of biomass-based electricity in the EU-27 countries, and interactions with climate … that biomass-based electricity remains profitable with high biomass prices, when the carbon price is high: a Euros 16 …
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It is well-understood that the success of liberalizing the electricity supply industry depends crucially on the quality … electricity provision in Norway. A key difference between the reform processes in the two countries relates to the lack of …
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