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Filling the Power Supply Gap in Africa : Is Natural Gas the Answer?
Ackah, Ishmael - 2016
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to review the advantages of natural gas as a potential solution to Africa's power ….Findings: The key finding is that despite increased discovery of natural gas in Africa, it has had minimal impact on power … other energy sources can contribute to solving Africa's power challenges.Policy implications: This paper will draw the …
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Climate change policy and power sector reform in Mexico under the 'golden age of gas'
Valenzuela, José Maria; Studer, Isabel - Joint Institute for Strategic Energy Analysis - 2016
Mexico's low-carbon technology perspectives show lack of coherence with the rising ambition in climate change commitments, for which Mexico is internationally praised. The comparison of two recent energy reforms, corresponding to two administrations, explains this lack of coherence by, on the...
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Filling the Power Supply Gap in Africa: Is Natural Gas the Answer?
Ackah, Ishmael; Opoku, Freda Akyeabea - 2016
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to review the reserves and production of natural gas in Africa and evaluate how … in Africa, it has had minimal impact on power production. Limitations:This study provides a descriptive overview and is … limited to only natural gas. It does not consider how other energy sources can contribute to solving Africa’s power challenges …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596385
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Unconventional gas and the Europe Union : prospects and challenges for competitiveness
Vollebergh, Herman R. J.; Drissen, Eric - 2014
This article studies the likely impact of unconventional gas developments in the US on EU competitiveness. We find, first of all, little evidence for a prosperous unconventional gas development in Europe. Second, the US boom has already a strong impact on both world and European energy markets....
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Issues in Global Natural Gas : A Primer and Analysis
Okogu, Bright - 2021
This paper discusses the rising profile of natural gas in global energy, factors constraining its further development, the gas contracting process, and the absence of a global market, which is analyzed in the context of the economic rent in the gas price and the opaque nature of gas contracts. A...
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On the determinants of trade in natural gas : a political economy approach
Farag, Markos; Zaki, Chahir - 2021
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The emerging hydrogen economy and its impact on LNG
Al-Kuwari, Omran; Schönfisch, Max - 2021
Hydrogen is gaining prominence as a critical tool for countries to meet decarbonisation targets. The main production pathways are based on natural gas or renewable electricity. LNG represents an increasingly important component of the global natural gas market. This paper examines synergies and...
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Liberalizing Russian gas markets : an economic analysis
Aune, Finn Roar; Golombek, Rolf; Hallre, Hilde; Moe, Arild - 2015
The Russian gas market is highly regulated. In this paper we examine possible impacts of regulatory changes on the demand side of this market. In particular, we consider the effects on Russian energy consumers of removing natural gas subsidies, and how changes in Russian gas consumption may...
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Government-led urbanization and natural gas demand in China
Cai, Zhengyu; Yu, Chin-Hsien; Zhu, Chunhui - 2021
The Chinese government is actively promoting urbanization to stimulate its economic growth while facing increasingly prominent environmental concerns. The main objective of this research is to assess whether the Chinese government is making efforts to promote cleaner energy demand while pushing...
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Modeling the Geopolitics of Natural Gas : LNG Exports From the US to Eastern Europe
Stähr, Fabian; Madlener, Reinhard; Hilgers, Christoph; … - 2019
In the course of the crisis in the Ukraine, most leading politicians in Eastern European countries, such as Poland, the Baltic States and Ukraine itself, identified the high dependency on natural gas imports from Russia as a threat to energy security. Hopes of independence through extraction of...
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