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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...
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Electricity Decentralization in the European Union: Towards Zero Carbon and Energy Transition, Second Edition, examines … specific country. Sections provide an overview of the current role and state of smart grids, the conceptualization of energy … the EU are considered as a vital step towards decentralization in order to boost energy security and energy efficiency …
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Poor performance of the electricity sector remains a drag to economic efficiency and a bottleneck to economic activity in many low-income countries. This paper proposes a number of models that account for different equilibria (some better, some worse) of the electricity sector. They show how...
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We collect ownership data of U.S. power plants accounting for 99% of U.S. electricity generation over the 2008-2020 period. Domestic listed corporations have reduced their ownership from 69% to 54% of total generation, while private equity, institutional investors, and foreign corporations have...
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energy system required to achieve stringent climate change mitigation targets. Due to their substantial temporal and spatial …
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Due to the call for further integration of European markets and the targeted climate goals, both European electricity systems and markets have undergone continuous changes over the last few decades. As part of these developments, the so-called Flow-Based Market Coupling (FBMC) superseded the...
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The world energy sector is entering a period of transformation, defined by the emergence of a whole range of cost …-effective technologies and the formation of new state priorities that can radically change the structure of energy use. The calculations of … the development of world energy markets for the period up to 2040 were made using economic and mathematical optimization …
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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...
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The 2011 disaster and nuclear problems opened the door to a new energy policy, as they raised fundamental questions … Fukushima accident makes it necessary to accelerate the expansion of renewable energy, which requires setting a sufficiently …
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