Abstract Gerhard Jochum and Wolfgang Pfaffenberger state that regulation sometimes is used as an euphemism for ad hoc interventions into the free play of the market. In the network based energy industries only the network should be regulated as far as it constitutes a bottleneck. The idea should...

Abstract Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker holds the view that the trouble with the energy- environment debate is that it typically circles around different modes of supplies with their respective environmental drawbacks. Rising demand for energy tends to be seen as an indisputable given. The fact...