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seen on the demand-side and the supply-side. Main demand-side policies could be the following: energy saving and efficiency … factors that could affect described policies could be the liberalization of international trade even in the energy sector and …
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purpose, a global energy outlook will be presented, which discusses the role of key players in the sector recent developments … in oil prices and the participation of the different energy sources in global supply. Subsequently, the article will … debates in each segment. The analysis concludes that the effort to avoid energy constraints to the development process …
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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...
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This paper analyses both global and regional approaches to solving problems of energy security and ecological imbalance … by addressing specifically the problems of China's energy security. China's growing energy dependence has become a major … South Korea and Taiwan are proceeding to create these as well. But this will add to its energy burden and further dependence …
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The challenges of sustainable development (and climate change and peak oil in particular) demand system-wide transformations in socio-technical systems of provision. An academic literature around co-evolutionary innovation for sustainability has recently emerged to attempt to understand the...
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’s support to its partner countries in the energy sector. It covers interventions designed or implemented during the 1996 …’s interventions in the energy sector have aimed to contribute to three very different goals: - Improving access to energy in … developing countries as a means of reducing poverty; - Securing energy supplies to the EU; - Improving nuclear safety in the …
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This paper seeks to disaggregate concerns about energy security within the wider European neighbourhood from the nation … Union. It argues that two decades of under-investment in Soviet-era energy, water, and communal service infrastructures … Kyrgyzstan. These problems are manifesting themselves both in terms of growing physical restrictions on access to energy, water …
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This study applies financial portfolio theory to determine efficient electricity-generating technology portfolios for the United States and Switzerland, adopting an investor point of view. Expected returns are defined by the rate of decrease of power generation cost (with external costs...
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While fossil energy dependency has declined and energy supply has grown in the postwar world economy, future resource … scarcity could cast its shadow on world economic growth soon if energy markets are forward looking. We develop an endogenous … growth model that reconciles the current aggregate trends in energy use and productivity growth with the intertemporal …
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