The Politics of the Environment: Ideas, Activism, Policy.(Book
review)
The Politics of the Environment: Ideas, Activism, Policy, by NEIL
CARTER. (Cambridge University Press, 2nd Edition, 2007, ISBN
0-521-68745-4, 432 pages, Paperback $34.99).
We are currently seeing . . .
Competitive Electricity Markets and Sustainability.(Book
review)
Competitive Electricity Markets and Sustainability, edited by
FRANCOIS LEVEQUE (Cheltenham and Northampton: Edward Elgar, 2006) 302
pages. Hardcover ISBN-13: 978 1 84542 921 8.
This collection . . .
Technological modifications in the nitrogen oxides tradable
permit program.(Report)
Tradable permit programs allow firms greater flexibility in
reducing emissions than command-and-control regulations and encourage
firms to use low cost abatement options, including . . .
Learning-by-doing and the optimal solar policy in
California.
Much policy attention has been given to promote fledgling energy
technologies that promise to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels. These
policies often aim to correct market failures, such as . . .
Randomly modulated periodic signals in Australia's National
Electricity Market.
In this article, we use half hourly spot electricity prices and
load data for the National Electricity Market (NEM) of Australia for the
period from December 1998 to August 2007 to test for . . .
Demand-side management and energy efficiency revisited.
The key finding of Loughran and Kulick (2004) is that utilities
have been overstating electricity savings and underestimating costs
associated with energy efficiency demand-side management (DSM) . . .
Carbon tax or carbon permits: the impact on generators'
risks.
Volatile fuel prices affect both the cost and price of electricity
in a liberalized market. Generators with the price-setting technology
will face less risk to their profit margins than those with . . .
The relationship of natural gas to oil prices.
We investigate the relationship between the prices of natural gas
and crude oil, and the factors that cause short run departures from the
long run equilibrium price relationship. We find evidence . . .
Natural gas demand in the European household sector.
This paper analyzes the residential natural gas demand in 12
European countries using a dynamic demand model, which allows for
country-specific short- and long-run elasticity estimates. The . . .
An empirical analysis of energy intensity and its determinants at
the state level.
Aggregate energy intensity in the United States has been declining
steadily since the mid-1970s and the first oil shock. Energy intensity
can be reduced by improving efficiency in the use of energy . . .
The Political Economy of Power Sector Reform: The Experiences of
Five Major Developing Countries.
The Political Economy of Power Sector Reform: The Experiences of
Five Major Developing Countries, by DAVID G. VICTOR AND THOMAS C. HELLER
(eds.). (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2007), 330 . . .
China and the Global Energy Crisis: Development and Prospects for
China's Oil and Natural Gas.
China and the Global Energy Crisis: Development and Prospects for
China's Oil and Natural Gas, by TATSU KAMBARA AND CHRISTOPHER HOWE
(Cheltenham UK: Edward Elgar, 2007). 144 pages, cloth, price . . .
The competitive effects of ownership of financial transmission
rights in a deregulated electricity industry.
In this paper, we investigate how generators' ownership of
financial transmission rights (FTRs) may influence the effects of the
transmission lines on competition. In order for concrete analysis, . . .
Impacts of market-based environmental and generation policy on
scrubber electricity usage.
The introduction of scrubbers as a means of controlling sulfur
dioxide (S[O.sub.2]) emissions from stationary sources coincided with
the implementation of the Clean Air Act of 1970. Since that . . .
Combined heat and power in commercial buildings: investment and
risk analysis.
Combined heat and power (CHP) systems can generate electricity
locally while they recover heat to satisfy heating loads in buildings,
which means they provide efficient energy. On-site generators . . .
Impacts of responsive load in PJM: load shifting and real time
pricing.
In PJM, 15% of electric generation capacity ran less than 96 hours,
1.1% of the time, over 2006. If retail prices reflected hourly wholesale
market prices, customers would shift consumption away . . .
Pollution and the price of power.
This study analyses the un-priced environmental harm caused by
generating electricity from fossil fuels in the ECAR control region
south of the Great Lakes in 2004 and again in 2015 when the recent . . .
Modeling peak oil.
"Peak oil" refers to the future decline in world
production of crude oil and to the accompanying potentially calamitous
effects. The majority of the literature on peak oil is non-economic . . .
What drives natural gas prices?
For many years, fuel switching between natural gas and residual
fuel oil kept natural gas prices closely aligned with those for crude
oil. More recently, however, the number of U.S. facilities able . . .
Estimating plant level energy efficiency with a stochastic
frontier.
A common distinguishing feature of engineering models is that they
explicitly represent best practice technologies, while
parametric/statistical models represent average practice. It is more
useful . . .
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