As an essential component for economic growth, energy has a significant impact on the global economy. The need to meet growing energy demand has prompted cutting-edge innovation in clean technology in an attempt to realise environmental and cost objectives, whilst ensuring the security of energy...

With the mounting interest in national energy problems has come intensification of efforts to determine the future economic availability of fuels. Until well into the 1970s, work concentrated on estimation of oil and gas supplies. However, subsequently numerous evaluations of coal supply have...

This work examines issues in the pricing of financial transmission rights in the PJM market region. The US federal government is advocating the creation of large-scale, not-for-profit regional transmission organizations to increase the efficiency of the transmission of electricity. As a...