System reliability is a key aspect of electricity supply, and the ability to maintain system reliability thus is an important aspect of a liberalised electricity market. But system reliability can be ensured only if there is sufficient reserve capacity at all times. In a liberalised electricity...

Meeting the energy needs of technology firms and creating adequate power supplies for the new economy is an issue of national and state importance. Proximity to reliable, cheap power and adequate transmission is a critical factor driving companies' decisions on where to locate and grow. Colorado...

This paper outlines the benefits, obstacles and options for governments to support international markets for technology development. International markets for new energy technologies offer greater scope, thereby increasing the incentives and opportunities for technology improvements. As the...

Legal challenges and transitions of political power cause the future of regulatory policies to be uncertain. In this article, I investigate how uncertainty about environmental policy affects investment and emissions at coal-fired power plants. I exploit a legal challenge to the Clean Air...

Purpose – Although the crucial role of business, and of business-based approaches, in development is increasingly emphasised by academics and practitioners, we lack insight into the ‘whether and how' of viable business models, in environmental, social and economical terms. This article...

This paper investigates the question in what extent energy managers and energy users are informed on competitive energy supply, efficient energy uses, and on potentials to increase production and uses of renewable sources of energy. The important role in the dissemination of knowledge on more...

The dominating view in the literature is that renewable electricity production increases the price variance on spot markets for electricity. In this paper, we critically review this hypothesis. Using a static market model, we identify the variance of the infeed from intermittent electricity...

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...

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...

Procurement auctions for renewable energy support have become a standard policy instrument to stimulate investment in clean energy. Yet, the nexus of award prices and post-auction realization rates of winning projects is not well understood in the literature. We combine auction theory and real...