An important tool in order to carry out research for modeling and managing energy demand and supply is explaining variables with measures reflecting weather variations. For example, handlings with heating degree-days represent an easy way to account for almost 100% of natural gas consumption...

This paper examines the perspectives of Russian gas exports to Western Europe and the strategic options of the CIS gas transiting countries, namely Ukraine and Belarus. The development of a new transit corridor through Belarus (the Yamal-Europe pipeline), depriving Ukraine of its former...