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This paper examines how regulatory interventions can affect the market risk of electricity utilities and telecom … telecommunications' regulatory intervention are negligible, but the impact of the electricity's regulatory measure is significant, long …
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The upcoming Climate Change Conference in Paris will once again highlight the need for action to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions in order to mitigate climate change. The relevant global energy scenarios are often still based on the assumption that the expansion of nuclear power can...
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Fragen der Finanzierung des Rückbaus von Atomkraftwerken und der Entsorgung radioaktiver Abfälle stehen im Mittelpunkt der gegenwärtigen Diskussion um die weitere Ausgestaltung des Atomausstiegs. Es besteht die Gefahr, dass sich die Atomkraftwerksbetreiber ihrer finanziellen Verantwortung...
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Die kommende Klimakonferenz in Paris wird einmal mehr den Handlungsbedarf zur globalen Minderung von Treibhausgasemissionen verdeutlichen, um die Auswirkungen des Klimawandels einzudämmen. Relevante globale Energieszenarien gehen oftmals noch davon aus, dass der Ausbau der Atomkraft einen...
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This paper presents a general electricity-CO2 (ELCO) modeling framework that is able to simulate interactions of the … profits based on variable, fixed and investment costs as well as the price of electricity, CO2 abatement cost and other …. The model framework allows for regional disaggregation and features simplified electricity and CO2 pipeline networks. The …
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This study analyses the diffusion of renewable energy (RE) technologies. It analyses the transition dynamics as the sector broadens its energy mix and changes its capital stock. This shift is found to be desirable from an environmental, geopolitical and economic perspective. Yet, it greatly...
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We argue for the resurrection of an old idea: electricity use as an indicator of U.S. economic activity. Our analysis … relies on associations–the 40-year correlation between growth rates in real GDP and electricity use can be as high as 89 …% –and intuition. Electricity use and economic conditions should move together. The vast majority of goods and services are …
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In electricity day-ahead markets organized as uniform price auction, a small reduction in supply in times of high …-Austrian electricity market to investigate the relationship between electricity spot prices and generation failures. Differentiating …
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An important question in the dynamic European wholesale markets for electricity is whether to define the geographical …
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The evidence of volatility-price dependence observed in previous works (Karakatsani and Bunn 2004; Bottazzi, Sapio and Secchi 2005; Simonsen 2005) suggests that there is more to volatility than simply spikes. Volatility is found to be positively correlated with the lagged price level in settings where...
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