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Trade in energy services : GARS and India
Mukherjee, Arpita; Goswami, Ramneet - 2009
India’s opportunities and constraints to trade in energy services within the GATS framework. The study found that India has … sector. India needs foreign investment, technical know-how and international best practices in energy. The country has … progressively liberalized this sector and there are no major entry barriers. However, India has not been successful in attracting …
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The Indian energy divide: dissecting inequalities in the energy transition towards LPG
Patel, Utkarsh; Kumar, Deepak - 2020
fuels, such as liquified petroleum gas (LPG), offer sustainable alternatives. Over the years, the LPG adoption rate in India … access owing to socio-cultural, regional and economic reasons persist among households. Using the India Human Development … households, from nine low-income states of India. Among other factors, we find strong positive evidence of cultural factors such …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012318757
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Climate change adaptation strategies within the framework of the German "Energiewende" : is there a need for government interventions and legal obligations?
Groth, Markus; Cortekar, Jörg - 2014
The option of adapting to climate change is becoming more important in climate change policy. Hence, responding to climate change now involves both mitigation to address the cause and adaptation as a response to already ongoing or expected changes. These changes are also of relevance for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010426488
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Charging the macroeconomy with an energy sector : an agent-based model
Ciola, Emanuele; Turco, Enrico; Gurgone, Andrea; … - 2022
The global energy crisis that began in fall 2021 and the following spike in energy price constitute a major challenge for the world economy which risks undermining the post-COVID-19 recovery. In this paper, we develop and validate a new macroeconomic agent-based model with an endogenous energy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012990154
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Electricity storage and transmission : complements or substitutes?
Neetzow, Paul; Pechan, Anna; Eisenack, Klaus - 2018
Electricity from renewable sources often cannot be generated when and where it is needed. To deal with these temporal and spatial discrepancies, one frequently proposed approach is to expand storage capacities and transmission grids. It is often argued that the two technologies substitute each...
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Introducción al estudio de la economía del sector energético
Martínez Torrico, Karen M.; Aliaga Lordemann, Javier - 2016
Because of the importance of the energy sector's development for the performance and stability of the economy, its analysis has become an intriguing branch of the economic sciences. For this study it should be tested the characteristics of each of the industries that comprise it, as well as make...
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Energy security, uncertainty, and energy resource use option in Ethiopia : a sector modelling approach
Guta, Dawit Diriba; Börner, Jan - 2015
Ethiopia’s energy sector faces critical challenges to meeting steadily increasing demand given limited infrastructure, heavy reliance on hydroelectric power, and underdevelopment of alternative energy resources. The main aim of this paper is to investigate an optimal least cost investment...
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Investor type heterogeneity in bottom-up optimization models
Mier, Mathias; Azarova, Valeriya - 2021
Bottom-up optimization models neglect the inclusion of investment behavior We introduce three investor types that differ in their investment cost specifications, financing costs, and discounting. This leads to a substantially different pace and rate of adoption for specific generation...
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Collaboration, decarbonization, and distributional effects
Mier, Mathias; Siala, Kais; Govorukha, Kristina; Mayer, … - 2022
We conduct a hybrid scenario exercise to analyze decarbonization pathways of the European power market and related distributional effects across countries as well as between consumers and producers. Our CIB analysis reveals qualitative scenarios that differ in the level of political (stringency...
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Digitalization for energy access in Sub-Saharan Africa : challenges, opportunities and potential business models
Mazzoni, Davide - 2019
Innovative business models supported by digital technologies, together with the widening connectivity and data collection, are already giving a big contribution in fostering the access to electricity and clean cooking in Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper gives an overview on the actual state of...
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