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Energy Competition : From Commodity to Boutique & Back

Coleman, James W. - 2020

Energy products such as power, gas, and oil have long been the world's premier commodities. Consumers demand that power and fuel are available when they want it and they prefer to pay less for it. Few know or care where their fuel or power comes from. So for years energy companies believed that...

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Coordinating Cross-Country Congestion Management

Kunz, Friedrich - 2016

We employ a detailed two-stage model to simulate the operation of the Central Eastern European electricity market and network. Implementing different cases of coordination in congestion management between national transmission system operators, numerical results show the beneficial impact of...

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Subsidy Regulation in WTO Law : Some Implications for Fossil Fuels and Renewable Energy

Marhold, Anna-Alexandra - 2017

This contribution discusses WTO subsidies disciplines in the context of the energy sector. After laying out the relevant disciplines, it will discuss the paradox of WTO law with respect to subsidies towards fossil fuels vis-à-vis those towards renewable energy. It is clear that subsidies on...

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Energy and Fossil Fuels as a Topic of WTO Accession Protocols

Marhold, Anna-Alexandra - 2018

This contribution seeks to analyse and compare WTO Accession Protocols, particularly the interpretations given relevant commitments made in them regarding energy and fossil fuels. After first providing an outline of the accession process and its importance for the natural resources and energy...

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Unservice : Reconceptualizing the Utility Duty to Serve in Light of Climate Change

Payne, Heather - 2021

Monopoly regulated utilities operate under a duty to serve - they must provide service on a non-discriminatory basis to … natural world, utilities will find themselves in the situation where continuing to provide service, re … duty to serve, utilities may find themselves doing exactly that: spending ratepayer funds providing service and installing …

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Will International Trade Law Promote or Inhibit Global Artificial Photosynthesis?

Faunce, Thomas Alured - 2013

Artificial photosynthesis (AP) is an area of well-advanced research involving large international groups at the cutting edge of synthetic biology and nanotechnology. In simple terms it offers to produce a cheap source of hydrogen for fuel through using sunlight to split water, as well as making...

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6th World Pensions Forum held in London : Greening, Governance and Asset Ownership

Weeks, David - 2019

Netherlands can foster a more effective form of asset ownership: fiduciary capitalism …

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Fossil Fuel Subsidies Reform in the WTO : Options for Constraining Dual Pricing in the Multilateral Trading System

Marhold, Anna-Alexandra - 2018

Dual pricing is a practice through which resource-endowed states sell their energy resources at significantly lower prices on the domestic market, as compared to the price on the export market. Dual pricing could be considered an environmentally harmful fossil fuel subsidy: States that maintain...

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Carbon Capture and Storage at Scale : Lessons from the Growth of Analogous Energy Technologies

Rai, Varun; Victor, David G.; Thurber, Mark C. - 2012

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is a promising technology that might allow for significant reductions in CO2 emissions. But at present CCS is very expensive and its performance is highly uncertain at the scale of commercial power plants. Such challenges to deployment, though, are not new to...

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Free Speech and the Myth of the Internet as an Unintermediated Experience

Yoo, Christopher S. - 2013

In recent years, a growing number of commentators have raised concerns that the decisions made by Internet intermediaries - including last-mile network providers, search engines, social networking sites, and smartphones - are inhibiting free speech and have called for restrictions on their...

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