Die Bedeutung von Kohle wird heute oft unterschätzt, da sie lange als eine Ressource der Vergangenheit galt. Dabei ist … Kohle nach wie vor Grundpfeiler der Stromerzeugung in den meisten Ländern: Ein Viertel des weltweiten … Primärenergieverbrauchs wird durch Kohle gedeckt. Während die größten Kohleproduzenten China, USA und Indien auch gleichzeitig die größten …

wird zum überwiegenden Teil mit Stromerzeugung aus Kohle betrieben. Trotz Reformstau im Strom- und Kohlesektor geht derzeit …

With its resource availability and the prospect of climate friendly technology, coal continues to play an important … role in the global energy sector. We develop a complementarity model of the international market for steam coal. We want to … equilibrium framework, we assume the steam coal exporters to maximize their profits by choosing the optimal quantity to sell to …

Optimal climate policy is studied. Coal, the abundant resource, contributes more CO2 per unit of energy than the … exhaustible resource, oil. We characterize the optimal sequencing oil and coal and departures from the Herfindahl rule …. 'Preference reversal' can take place. If coal is very dirty compared to oil, there is no simultaneous use. Else, the optimal …

Coal continues to be an important fuel in many countries' energy mix and, despite the climate change concerns, it is … evolution of the international market for steam coal, the coal type used for electricity generation. The main focus is on future …, formulated in the complementarity format. It includes all major steam coal exporting and importing countries and represents the …

The efficiency of electricity generation in hard coal fired power plants varies considerably from country to country … abundance of hard coal and the price of hard coal are the two variables of our major interest. We assume that countries with an … abundance of hard coal or relatively low costs of extraction show smaller degrees of efficiency than countries with poor …