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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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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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Infrastructure Investment in 2019 : Glad Tidings and Rising Geoeconomic Tides
Firzli, M. Nicolas J. - 2019
The last weeks of 2018 have set new records in net new institutional investment flows into infrastructure funds, with more generalist private equity and investment management players joining this strategic asset class par excellence, as the trend is likely to continue well into 2019 – 2020.The...
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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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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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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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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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Incenting Green Technology : The Myth of Market-Based Commercialization of No- and Low-Carbon Electricity Sources
Payne, Heather - 2017
is being used by different no- and low-carbon electricity sources, and how vertically-integrated utilities are using loan …
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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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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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