Within the EFONET Coordination Action, an analysis of the state of the art of energy foresight activities in the EU countries has beencarried out in order to assess the transferability of the “good practices” learnt from the national foresight experiences towards energyforesight on the...

This paper measures the extent to which prices exceed marginal costs in the U.S. natural gas distributionmarket during the period 1991-2007. We find large departures from marginal cost pricing in all 50states, with residential and commercial customers facing average markups of over 40%. Based...

In den letzten Jahren hat sich die öffentliche, wissenschaftliche wie auch politische Debatteüber den Klimawandel und über die Folgen der globalen Erwärmung deutlich intensiviert:Von Seiten der Bundesregierung wird im Hinblick auf den Klimawandel an die individuelleVerantwortung der...

Homes that have already built account for 99% of our total housing stock. We estimate that86% of the current stock will still be in use in 2050. Building new homes is carbon intensiveand implies many wider environmental impacts. But the existing stock can be made moreefficient, at a reasonable...

The rapidly growing literature on the relationship between energy consumption and economicgrowth has not univocally identi…ed the ‘real’causal relationship yet. We argue that bivariate mod-els, which analyze the causality at the level of the total economy, are not appropriate — especiallyin...