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Nuclear turn : closing down nuclear power plants opens up prospects for the final repository site search
Kendziorski, Mario; Kemfert, Claudia; Präger, Fabian; … - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 11 (2021) 47, pp. 359-366
With the closure of the final six nuclear power plants, the commercial use of nuclear energy for electricity generation in Germany will come to an end in 2022. Due to the German power system's sufficient capacities-in 2020, the sector exported 20 terawatt hours (TWh), or about four percent of...
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Nuclear Power in the Twenty-First Century : An Assessment (Part I)
von Hirschhausen, Christian - 2018
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Ten years after Fukushima : nuclear energy is still dangerous and unreliable
Wealer, Ben; Hirschhausen, Christian R. von; Kemfert, … - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 11 (2021) 7/8, pp. 53-61
The catastrophic accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant on March 11, 2011, revealed unexpected safety risks of nuclear energy once again. It also accelerated the decline of nuclear energy in the international energy sector: Nuclear energy’s share of global electricity generation...
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The future of nuclear power in France : an analysis of the costs of phasing-out
Malischek, Raimund; Trüby, Johannes - 2014
Nuclear power is an important pillar in electricity generation in France. However, France's nuclear power plant fleet … in France under different scenarios? Second, who has to bear these costs, i.e., how much of the costs will be passed on … France have on system costs? Applying a stochastic optimization model for the European electricity system, we show that …
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Incentives for the long-term integration of renewable energies : a plea for a market value model
Neuhoff, Karsten; May, Nils; Richstein, Jörn - In: DIW economic bulletin 7 (2017) 46/47, pp. 467-476
Due to increasing shares of renewable energies in electricity production, the cost-effective system integration of these installations is becoming more and more important. Technologies and locations are viewed as system-friendly when they are more cost-efficient and easier to integrate because...
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Innovation and Environmental Stringency : The Case of Sulfur Dioxide Abatement
de Vries, Frans P.; Withagen, Cees - 2014
A weak version of the Porter hypothesis claims that strict environmental policy provides positive innovation incentives, hence triggering improved competitiveness and securing environmental quality. In a comparative way, this paper empirically tests this hypothesis across countries by linking...
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The ’Hidden Costs’ of Water Provision : New Evidence from the Relationship between Contracting-Out and Price in French Water Public Services
Porcher, Simon - 2019
In France, the management of public services such as water or sanitation can be done by the municipal council or …
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Water Taxes and Consumer Behavior in France
Porcher, Simon - 2017
Water taxes are employed to correct externalities associated with water pollution or resource scarcity and to raise government revenue. In this paper, using a dataset on more than 4,000 French municipalities, we directly examine how water taxes affect consumer behavior as distinct from...
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Contract Renewals, Prices and Deprivatizations : The Case of Water in France
Mayol, Alexandre; Saussier, Stéphane - 2021
In this paper, we studied the influence of contract renewals on water prices in France. When studying French water …
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Corporate Governance Structures in International Business Compared : Case Study of GDF SUEZ (France) and Williams (USA)
Singh, Akshay - 2016
A comparative study of Corporate Governance structures at two organizations situated across the Atlantic Ocean has been conducted to understand the rationale for the observed differences from an international versus a nationally focused business perspective. A research based recommendation for...
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