Lack of access to an adequate, affordable and environmentally friendly energy supply is a severe constraint for development. Financial sustainability and demand-side focus of projects are the most relevant parameters to consider for long-term sustainability of electrification projects according...

Lack of access to an adequate, affordable and environmentally friendly energy supply is a severe constraint for development. Financial sustainability and demand-side focus of projects are the most relevant parameters to consider for long-term sustainability of electrification projects according...

This volume was prepared by Luise Röpke while she was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2013 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes three self-contained chapters about aspects of the integration of new...

Nachdem der gesamtdeutsche Erdgasverbrauch schon im vergangenen Jahr um fast ein Zahntel gestiegen war, dürfte 1996 die Zuwachsrate noch höher ausfallen. Nachfragesteigernd macht sich teils die Witterung bemerkbar, teils wirken sich aber auch die anhaltenden Substitutionsgewinne des Gases vor...

The objective of this paper is to review the application of data envelopment analysis to performance evaluation of electricity distribution. After introducing the basic concepts and models of data envelopment analysis, work on its application in electricity distribution is discussed via a number...

It seems clear that energy production is one of the key aspects of global sustainability. Economic, social and environmental aspects must be taken into account in order to design appropriate policies and thus, multicriteria analysis becomes a very adequate tool to deal with real problems of this...

To meet rising targets for renewable-derived electricity generation, wind power is currently the preferred technology. However, it is widely accepted that due to the stochastic nature of wind, planning restrictions and the finite availability of suitable sites there is an upper limit to the...