<span><span>This book examines three bipolar relationships that have emerged as a result of the Eurasian energy triangle</span><span>-</span><span>Russia-Former Soviet Union region, Russia-EU, and Russia-China</span><span>-and the ways in which they, along with Putin's foreign energy policy, relate to the debate between neorealism and neoliberal...</span></span>

China has had an enormous growth of energy and electricity consumption during the last decades. This has been fuelled primarily by using domestic coal resources. Until 1997, annual construction of power stations averaged around 15 GW which was not sufficient to alleviate the demand surplus....

China's energy-service companies (ESCOs) have developed only modestly despite favorable political and market conditions. We argue that with sophisticated market institutions still evolving in China, trust-based relations between ESCOs and energy customers are essential for successful...