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How far is China from hitting its climate targets? An overview of China's energy sector

Kaaresvirta, Juuso; Kerola, Eeva; Nuutilainen, Riikka; … - 2021

consumption has risen faster than energy production, and thereby increased China's dependence on energy imports. China is the …

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Implications of an increase in domestic prices of gas in Russia, an application of the regional economic model SUSTRUS

Heyndrickx, Christophe; Alexeeva-Talebi, Victoria; … - 2012

. Sixty percent of the production is sold domestically at prices below long term marginal cost, for households and for … policy promoting energy efficiency, increasing investments in natural gas production and bringing the natural gas price on … the domestic market closer to long term cost recovery. We will approach the issue of gas pricing through taxation of …

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Energy Boom and Gloom? Local Effects of Oil and Natural Gas Drilling on Subjective Well-Being

Maguire, Karen; Winters, John V. - 2016

The United States experienced a considerable increase in oil and natural gas extraction in recent years due to technological advancements including horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing. Increased energy development likely creates both benefits and costs, but the net effects for local...

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Cartelization in gas markets. Studying the potential for a "Gas OPEC"

Gabriel, Steve A.; Rosendahl, Knut Einar; Egging, Ruud G.; … - 2010

Natural gas is increasingly important as a fuel for electric power generation as well as other uses due to its environmental advantage over other fossil fuels. Using the World Gas Model, a large-scale energy equilibrium system based on a complementarity formulation, this paper analyzes possible...

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Who Benefits from Local Oil and Gas Employment? Labor Market Composition in the Oil and Gas Industry in Texas

Cai, Zhengyu; Maguire, Karen; Winters, John V. - 2019

This paper examines local labor market outcomes from an oil and gas boom in Texas. We examine two main outcomes across gender, race, and ethnicity: the probability of employment in the oil and gas industry and the log wages of workers employed outside the oil and gas industry. We find that men...

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Changing Electricity Markets: Quantifying the Price Effects of Greening the Energy Matrix

Kohlscheen, Emanuel; Moessner, Richhild - 2022

We analyse the drivers of European Power Exchange (EPEX) wholesale electricity prices between 2012 and early 2022 using machine learning. The agnostic random forest approach that we use is able to reduce in-sample root mean square errors (RMSEs) by around 50% when compared to a standard linear...

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Green, Closed Loop, Circular Bio-Economy

Achillas, Charisios (contributor); … - 2021

In recent years, bioeconomy strategies have been implemented and adapted internationally. In the bioeconomy, materials are to a certain extent circular by nature. However, biomaterials may also be used in a rather linear way. Lately, a transition towards a circular economy, a more restorative...

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What drives drilling up and prices down? A structural vector autoregressive model of the U.S. natural gas market

Winkler, Valentin - 2023

drilling (i.e. investment) for natural gas production, natural gas withdrawals, economic activity and natural gas prices in the … policy makers seeking to rapidly expand shale gas production in order to obtain similar cheap energy as the U.S. after 2008. …

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Prospects for a potential African gas renaissance en route to a "just energy transition"

Ouki, Mostefa A. - 2023

The impact of the Russia-Ukraine war on the natural gas trade, inter alia, continues to be felt well beyond Europe's borders. As the accelerated decarbonisation of the world's economies is being pushed forward, Europe's unexpected interest in alternative sources of gas imports to replace Russian...

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Climate change and the extractives sector

Addison, Tony - 2018

The extractives industries must adjust their operations to shifting patterns of demand for oil, natural gas, and coal together with metals and minerals - as policies and new technologies encourage progress along low-carbon pathways in energy, transportation and construction to combat climate...

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