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The Economics of Shale Gas Development
Mason, Charles F.; Muehlenbachs, Lucija A.; Olmstead, … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2015
in the first decade. The boom has been accompanied by concerns about negative externalities, including impacts to air … market impacts and positive externalities, providing back-of-the-envelope estimates of their magnitude. The paper also … summarizes the current science and economics literatures on negative externalities. We conclude that the likely scope of economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011268592
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Carbon Price and Wind Power Support in Denmark
Gavard, Claire - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2015
This paper aims at characterizing the conditions of wind power deployment in order to infer a carbon price level that would provide wind power with comparable advantage over fossil fuel technologies as effective wind support policies. The analysis is conducted on Danish data from 2000 to 2010,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011162056
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An Assessment of the Energy-Efficiency Gap and Its Implications for Climate Change Policy
Gerarden, Todd D.; Newell, Richard G.; Stavins, Robert N.; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2015
Improving end-use energy efficiency—that is, the energy-efficiency of individuals, households, and firms as they consume energy—is often cited as an important element in efforts to reduce greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions. Arguments for improving energy efficiency usually rely on the idea that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011268598
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Assessing the Energy-Efficiency Gap
Gerarden, Todd D.; Newell, Richard G.; Stavins, Robert N. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2015
Energy-efficient technologies offer considerable promise for reducing the financial costs and environmental damages associated with energy use, but these technologies appear not to be adopted by consumers and businesses to the degree that would apparently be justified, even on a purely financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011268606
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Understanding Long-Term Energy Use and Carbon Dioxide Emissions in the Usa
Tol, Richard S.J.; Pacala, Stephen W.; Socolow, Robert - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006
We compile a database of energy uses, energy sources, and carbon dioxide emissions for the USA for the period 1850-2002. We use a model to extrapolate the missing observations on energy use by sector. Overall emission intensity rose between 1850 and 1917, and fell between 1917 and 2002. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385336
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Bioenergy and CO2 Sequestration: Climate Policies Beyond Technological Constraints
Bibas, Ruben; Méjean, Aurélie - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012
This paper examines the role of electricity production from biomass with and without carbon capture and storage in sustaining low CO2 emission pathways to 2100. It quantifies the effect of the availability of biomass resources and technologies within a general equilibrium framework. Biomass-fed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010603771
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The Effect of African Growth on Future Global Energy, Emissions, and Regional Development
Calvin, Katherine; Pachauri, Shonali; Cian, Enrica De; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014
Today Africa is a small emitter, but it has a large and faster-than-average growing population and per capita income that could drive future energy demand and, if unconstrained, emissions. This paper uses a multi-model comparison to characterize the potential future energy development for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010757690
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European Energy Efficiency and Decarbonization Strategies Beyond 2030 – A Sectoral Multi-model Decomposition
Förster, Hannah; Schumacher, Katja; Cian, Enrica De; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014
Energy efficiency and decarbonization are important elements of climate change mitigation. We draw on European mitigation scenarios from the EMF28 modeling exercise to decompose economy-wide and sectoral emissions into their main components. We utilize the Logarithmic Mean Divisia Index (LMDI)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010757691
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Global Energy Security under Different Climate Policies, GDP Growth Rates and Fossil Resource Availabilities
Cherp, Aleh; Jewell, Jessica; Vinichenko, Vadim; Bauer, Nico - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014
Energy security is one of the main drivers of energy policies. Understanding energy security implications of long-term scenarios is crucial for informed policy making, especially with respect to transformations of energy systems required to stabilize climate change. This paper evaluates the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010757693
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Nuclear versus Coal plus CCS: A Comparison of Two Competitive Base-load Climate Control Options
Tavoni, Massimo; Zwaan, Bob van der - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009
In this paper we analyze the relative importance and mutual behavior of two competing base-load electricity generation options that each are capable of contributing significantly to the abatement of global CO2 emissions: nuclear energy and coal-based power production complemented with CO2...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008502125