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An energy policy for ASEAN? : lessons from the EU experience on energy integration, security, and decarbonization

Diaz-Rainey, Ivan; Tulloch, Daniel J.; Ahmed, Iftekhar; … - 2021

The European Union (EU) has redefined the energy sphere in Europe over the last three decades. Transnational policies targeting liberalization and integration, energy efficiency, renewables, carbon pricing, and energy security have led to major steps forward in terms of a more secure,...

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Energy policy of fossil fuel-producing countries : does global energy transition matter?

Escobar, Octavio; Neri, Ulises; Silvestre, Stephan - In: European journal of comparative economics 17 (2020) 1, pp. 5-30

The concept of energy transition can be interpreted in different ways depending on the nature of the agent involved. However, practitioners and existing literature agree that a country's energy transition is the variation of fossil fuel share in the total primary energy supply (TPES). Public...

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Energy security, uncertainty, and energy resource use option in Ethiopia : a sector modelling approach

Guta, Dawit Diriba; Börner, Jan - 2015

Ethiopia’s energy sector faces critical challenges to meeting steadily increasing demand given limited infrastructure, heavy reliance on hydroelectric power, and underdevelopment of alternative energy resources. The main aim of this paper is to investigate an optimal least cost investment...

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Best practices for a sustainable energy sector at European Union level : chances and challenges for Romania

Tanţău, Adrian Dumitru; Şanta, Ana-Maria Iulia - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 21 (2019) 52, pp. 697-706

Sustainability is a trend reflected nowadays both at global level and at European Union level. This applies as well to the energy policy sector, which is being modernized considering the sustainable use of resources. This trend finds its concrete expression in the package "Clean Energy for All...

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Flexibility in Europe's power sector :an additional requirement or an automatic complement?

Bertsch, Joachim; Growitsch, Christian; Lorenczik, Stefan; … - 2013

By 2050, the European Union aims to reduce greenhouse gases by more than 80 %. The EU member states have therefore declared to strongly increase the share of renewable energy sources (RES-E) in the next decades. Given a large deployment of wind and solar capacities, there are two major impacts...

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Decarbonizing Europe's power sector by 2050 : analyzing the implications of alternative decarbonization pathways

Jägemann, Cosima Claudia; Fürsch, Michaela; Hagspiel, … - 2012

In this paper, the implications of alternative decarbonization pathways for Europe's power sector up until the year 2050 are analyzed. In specific, an electricity system optimization model is used to investigate the minimal costs of decarbonization under a stand-alone CO2 reduction target and to...

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Flexibility in Europe's power sector : an additional requirement or an automatic complement? ; conference paper

Bertsch, Joachim; Growitsch, Christian; Lorenczik, Stefan; … - 2013

The EU member states have declared to strongly increase the share of Renewable Energy Sources in the next decades. Given a large deployment of wind and solar capacities as well as limited cost-efficient storage technologies, this has two major impacts on electricity systems. First, the...

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The determinants of entry in the electricity generation sector in OECD countries : a focus on renewable energy

Benatia, David; Koźluk, Tomasz - 2016

Ease of entry is crucial to well-functioning electricity markets. This paper investigates the patterns of entry in the generation segment of the electricity industry of OECD countries and seeks to provide an understanding of their key determinants. It aims to derive implications for the design...

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Optimal clean energy R&D investments under uncertainty

Marangoni, Giacomo; De Maere d'Aertrycke, Gauthier; … - 2017

produced by climate-economy models while introducing the dimension of uncertainty in innovation ef- forts, without succumbing … evaluating optimal near-term innovation investment portfolios in four key clean energy technologies (solar, biofuels … innovation to improve the performance of these technologies. We employ an IAM (WITCH) which has a fairly rich description of the …

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Energy supply contracting adoption : empirical evidence from the Swiss market

Klinke, Sandra - 2016

Energy supply contracting consisting in outsourcing energy-related services is considered as a promising tool to induce investment in energy efficiency and renewable technologies. Yet, energy contracting markets grow slowly and Switzerland is lagging behind. In order to assess whether the...

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