Introduction -- 1. Part 1: Economics of energy production and distribution -- 1.1. Economics of oil and gas production - Nadine Bret-Rouzeaut (SciencesPo, France) -- 1.2. Economics of oil tanker transportation -- 1.3. Economics of gas transportation by pipeline or LNG - Manfred Hafner (IFP...

1. Introduction -- 2. Electricity distribution networks and decentralisation paradigm -- 3. The evolving role of distribution networks: from network operator to system operator to platform provider -- 4. Regulated charges for access to and utilisation of networks -- 5. Improving efficiency:...

Education: No Take Off Without Adult Literacy -- Electricity: Power to the People -- Sex and Money: How Many Babies Are Too Many? -- Debt: A Debt Crisis Is Probably Unavoidable in a Bid to Create Jobs -- Demographics and Growth: Who Booms, When? -- What the Future Holds: Democracy, Corruption,...

This book describes the latest microeconomic concepts and operations research (OR) techniques needed to comprehend the design and operation of power markets, as well as the actions of their agents: producers, consumers, operators, and regulators. This is critical when it comes to addressing a...

Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Residential Electricity Consumption Pattern Mining based on Fuzzy Clustering -- Chapter 3 Load Profiling Considering Shape Similarity using Shape-based Clustering -- Chapter 4 Load Classification and Driven Factors Identification based on Ensemble Clustering...

1. An Introduction to the Chinese Power System and its Reform -- 2. Lessons for China from International Experience of Power Sector Reform -- 3. Power Market Reform in China - Lessaon from Guangdong -- 4. How Industrial electricity prices are determined in a reformed power market: lessons from...