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Restructuring the electricity sector and promoting green growth in Japan
Jones, Randall Sidney; Kim, Myungkyoo - 2013
The 2011 disaster and nuclear problems opened the door to a new energy policy, as they raised fundamental questions about the electricity system’s ability to prevent and respond to accidents. In particular, the system has had difficulty coping with the shortages caused by the accident and the...
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The price of oil : will it start rising again?
Fournier, Jean-Marc; Koske, Isabell; Wanner, Isabelle; … - 2013
Following a sharp drop amidst the global economic crisis and a subsequent recovery, the spot price of crude oil has been broadly stable for the past couple of years. This paper discusses the factors that drive oil demand and supply and, hence, the price of the resource. A set of oil demand...
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The Gulf Cooperation Council countries : economic structures, recent developments and role in the global economy
Sturm, Michael; Strasky, Jan; Adolf, Petra; Peschel, Dominik - 2008
vast oil and gas reserves and benefit from relatively low costs in exploiting oil reserves. …
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Determinants of households' investment in energy efficiency and renewables : evidence from the OECD Survey on Household Environmental Behaviour and Attitudes
Ameli, Nadia; Brandt, Nicola - 2014
Many studies on household energy efficiency investments suggest that a wide range of seemingly profitable investments are not taken up. This paper provides novel evidence on the main factors behind consumer choices using the OECD Survey on Household Environmental Behaviour and Attitudes. The...
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Integrating renewables in mining : review of business models and policy implications
Alova, Galina - 2018
-emission development pathway, as envisaged by the Paris Agreement. At the same time, renewables have become an increasingly cost … mining sector, to reduce costs as well as carbon footprint of operations. The sector’s energy transition also presents an …
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Will oil prices decline over the long run?
Kaufmann, Robert Kurt; Karadeloglou, Pavlos V.; Di … - 2008
At present, oil markets appear to be behaving in a fashion similar to that in the late 1970s and early 1980s when oil prices rose sharply over an extended period. Furthermore, like at that time, analysts are split on whether such increases will persist or reverse, and if so by how much. The...
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Renewable energy policies and cross-border investment : evidence from mergers and acquisitions in solar and wind energy
Criscuolo, Chiara; Johnstone, Nick; Menon, Carlo; … - 2014
The study assesses the role of feed-in tariffs (FITs) and renewable energy certificates (RECs) in creating incentives for cross-border investments and for investments in particular technological portfolios via M&A. The analysis explores the dataset on M&As in alternative energy sources worldwide...
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Energiepolitik : erfolgreiche Energiewende nur im europäischen Kontext
Hübner, Malte; Schmidt, Christoph M.; Weigert, Benjamin - 2012
In Deutschland besteht seit dem Beschluss des Energiekonzepts der schwarz-gelben Koalition im Jahr 2010 und dem im Jahr 2011 erneut bestätigten Ausstieg aus der Kernenergie ein Konsens, die Stromerzeugung bis zum Jahr 2050 so umzubauen, dass die erneuerbaren Energien daran den Hauptanteil...
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Greenhouse gas emissions and price elasticities of transport fuel demand in Belgium
Schmitz, Tom - 2012
Since 1990, Belgium has managed to bring down greenhouse gas emissions in most domains of economic activity. Road transport, as in many other countries, is a notable exception to this pattern: emissions have steadily increased, driven by an ever higher consumption of petrol and diesel. Even...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009690147
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Climate change policies in Poland : minimising abatement costs
Égert, Balázs - 2012
-efficiency advantage of uniform support to renewables via green certificates should be retained to minimise abatement costs. Government … intensity, and implying overall abatement costs above the EU-average, is realised in a least-cost fashion by imposing an economy … risks and the short- and long-term environmental costs of the use of the former and fully consider environmental risks …
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