Electricity shortage has become a major challenge to continued economic growth in Bangladesh. The country is growing in terms of GDP growth at a rate of 7% a year. Bangladesh is expected to move towards 23rd position globally by 2050 from its position 31 in 2014, in terms of GDP at purchasing...

Der renommierte Energieexperte Hermann Scheer zeigt, warum eine "Renaissance der Atomenergie" der falsche Weg aus der Energiekrise ist, warum das "Kyoto-Protokoll" die Energiewende eher behindert als fördert, mit welchen neuen Technologien die Weltenergieversorgung gesichert werden kann und:...

While early literature on electricity externalities was largely concerned with fossil fuel power generation and the associated emissions, nuclear accidents (Chernobyl, Fukushima) and the large-scale deployment of renewable energy facilities have spurred a wave of research on the externalities of...

This study analyzes the dynamics of the linkages among costs of electricity generation via crude oil, natural gas, and coal for the periods before and after the Fukushima accident. We find that Markov regime switching in the cost spreads between the fossil fuels has become more frequent after...