Climate regulation of the electricity sector is one of the most important growing — and rapidly changing — areas of law and policy today. This is both because of the critical role that electricity plays in modern society, acting as economic lifeblood, and because of electricity's part in...

Currencies play an important role in facilitating trade and economic growth. Shifts in currency values may lead to economic dislocations hindering trade and growth. Most currencies are issued by government central banks. These central banks hold assets in the form of government debt and gold...

Purpose: While the relationships between energy or electricity consumption and economic growth are of great interest to economists, previous studies have not examined the dynamic effect of electricity production on industrial and agricultural output growth in Nigeria; this study attempts to fill...

Ein hoher Strombedarf ist ein wesentliches Merkmal entwickelter Volkswirtschaften. Die großen Vorteile der elektrischen Energie müssen aber teuer erkauft werden. Neben dem hohen Kapitalaufwand zur Erstellung der Infrastruktur geraten die mit der Stromerzeugung verbundenen...

Ein hoher Strombedarf ist ein wesentliches Merkmal entwickelter Volkswirtschaften. Die großen Vorteile der elektrischen Energie müssen aber teuer erkauft werden. Neben dem hohen Kapitalaufwand zur Erstellung der Infrastruktur geraten die mit der Stromerzeugung verbundenen...

Recent advances in technology and the consequent decline in manufacturing costs are making energy storage systems a central element of energy and climate change policy debates across the nation. Energy storage systems have the potential to provide many benefits such as lower electricity prices...

As distributed energy generation is becoming increasingly common, the debate on how a utility’s customers should be compensated for the excess energy they sell back to the grid is intensifying. And net metering, the practice of compensating for such energy at the retail rate for electricity,...

In today's world, environmental concerns are one of the most pressing issues. Human activities such as production and consumption, resource depletion, waste generation, and a host of other factors all have negative effects on the environment. Due to the aforementioned, the world is seeking for a...

Wie könnte ein zukunftsfähiges Energieversorgungssystem aussehen und welche Bedeutung hat dabei das Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz? Prof. Dr. Rainer Frank Elsässer, E.ON AG, vermisst u.a. die europäische Perspektive. Für Bernhard Hillebrand, EEFA, Münster, und Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Ströbele,...

This study analyzes the effects of additional interconnection on welfare and competition in the Irish electricity market. I simulate the wholesale electricity markets of Great Britain and the island of Ireland for 2005. I find that in order for the two markets to be integrated in 2005,...