Titlebook: Energy Economics; Theory and Applicati Peter Zweifel,Aaron Praktiknjo,Georg Erdmann Textbook 2017 Springer International Publishing AG 2017

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Bottom-Up Analysis of Energy Demand,g with the rule that without a minimum demand, supply does not come forth. Energy demand is often discussed in relation to the question of how to achieve ‘energy savings’, a term devoid of meaning without some prior knowledge of the factors affecting energy demand. These factors importantly derive f

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External Costs,l use of energy. Concepts have been developed in environmental economics for solving the associated problems in an economically efficient way. They revolve around the terms externality, external cost, and avoidance cost (also called abatement cost). Provided damages and risks can be quantified and m

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Markets for Liquid Fuels,odiesel, bioethanol, and synthetic fuels. Since the mid-twentieth century, crude oil has been the world’s most important energy source. However, the future prospects of crude oil are more unclear than ever. A lot of issues have to be analyzed:

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Markets for Gaseous Fuels,s ranks third globally among primary energy sources (after crude oil and hard coal). One of its advantages are technologies with high fuel efficiencies which release relatively little carbon dioxide (CO.). Another advantage is the fact that existing infrastructure can be used for distributing gas fr

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Markets for Solid Fuels and CO2 Emissions,urn limits competition in solid fuel markets. Thanks to reduced costs of coal extraction, productivity increases in maritime transport, and reduced public subsidies, a global market for hard coal has nevertheless developed..Due to coal’s high carbon content, coal combustion is the major source of gl

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Uranium and Nuclear Energy,strust of this energy technology has been salient from its beginnings. After the nuclear catastrophe of 1986 in Chernobyl, Ukraine, public acceptance of nuclear energy plummeted in industrial countries even though the Chernobyl reactor was of a very different design from those common in Western mode

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Markets for Electricity, countries around the world, vertically integrated utilities used to assume all of these functions similar to the vertically integrated companies in other energy sectors (see Sect. 8.2.1). For several reasons, the European Union has mandated the electric industry to unbundle the grid from its other

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Economics of Electrical Grids,tailers, third party access to the electrical grid must be assured on terms that are transparent and nondiscriminatory. From an economic point of view, electrical grids represent both a natural monopoly and an essential facility. This confers a dominant market position upon vertically integrated uti