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Showing 1 to 20 of 87 for “"electricity sector"”.
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Decarbonizing the European electricity sector
… Capture, Transport, and Storage (CCTS) for the electricity and industry sector; the welfare maximizing quadratically constrained model ELMOD focuses on different trajectories for renewable energy sources (RES) and transmission grid expansions; and the equilibrium model ELCO combines the insights …
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Privatizing the Saudi electricity sector
Electricity demand in Saudi Arabia has been growing rapidly with an average peak demand growth rate of 6% over the past decade. Currently, the structure of the electricity industry is based on a monopoly framework dominated by a government owned utility company (Saudi Electric Company (SEC)). …
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Europeanization of the Estonian Electricity Sector: Historical Legacies and Security Concerns
… in regard to the the case of Estonian electricity sector. The Estonian actors' response to adaptational pressures caused by the EU, a process that is generally understood as Europeanization, thus provides us with a useful case study to determine what conditions limit the EU's attempts …
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Why did Mexico not privatise the electricity sector? - an application of prospect theory
… 1,155 to 210. Despite this, the country’s energy sector, including the electricity industry, has largely remained in state hands. Presidents Ernesto Zedillo and Vicente Fox presented their projects to privatise the Mexican electricity industry (MEI). However, they were unable to reach agreements …
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China’s role in the evolution of the global electricity sector - A comparative empirical analysis
… Initiative and which are so far focusing on the electricity sector, we have a limited understanding of China’s role in the evolution of the global electricity sector. This is largely because China does not systematically disclose the details of its overseas development programs. To overcome this …
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Energy related services in Kenya: Implications of unbundling the electricity sector on trade in services negotiations
Electricity is a basic infrastructural service necessary for the achievement of developmental outcomes. The use of electricity, specifically, serves economic as well as social needs. It is universally accepted that electrification enhances quality of life at the household level and stimulates the …
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Post-privatisation problems in the Nigerian electricity sector : the roles of sector-specific regulation and antitrust law
The current failures of electricity regulation in Nigeria are resulting from neoliberal, market-oriented ideas. The policies promised a competitive electricity market that would work well for all stakeholders. However, several years after implementation, these promises are yet to be realised. This …
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Towards “just” energy transitions in unequal societies: an actor-centric analysis of South Africa's evolving electricity sector
The rapid and intensifying impacts of the changing climate and subsequent need to alleviate these have resulted in the synonymous pathway towards a global energy transition. Through enhanced national climate action plans, countries worldwide are formulating development pathways that are aligned to …
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A roadmap for energy transition strategic planning and governance: a case study of Nigeria's grid-based renewable electricity sector.
… energy sources into the planned 30GW of electricity generation by 2030. This is principally because deploying renewable energy on the national grid provides succour to the complex dual energy issues of access and poverty currently experienced in Nigeria, promoting the reduction of …
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A Historical Institutionalist Analysis of the Evolution of South Africa's Municipal Electricity Sector within the Broader Electricity Supply Industry
… narratives on the evolution of the South African Electricity Supply Industry (ESI), have for the most part focused on the national vertically integrated utility, Eskom; with far less attention being paid to the role that the municipal electricity undertakings (MEU's) have, and continue to, play. …
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The conceptualization and practice of training and development : comparison between public, privatized and private companies in the Jordanian electricity sector
… case study, conducted in the Jordanian electricity sector, aimed at exploring the concept, philosophy and practice of training and development (T&D), by investigating and comparing T&D conceptualization and practice between the public, private and privatized electricity companies.To meet …
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The Impact of Environmental Policies and Innovation on the Investment in and Use of Natural Gas-Fired Combined Cycle Generators in the US Electricity Sector
… to increased natural gas generation in the US electricity sector. As a result, natural gas generation surpassed coal for the first time in history in 2016. In addition to low natural gas prices, developments with the natural gas-fired combined cycle generator (NGCC) have contributed to the rise …
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Electric power and the global economy: Advances in database construction and sector representation
<p>The electricity sector plays a crucial role in the global economy. The sector is a major consumer of fossil fuel resources, producer of greenhouse gas emissions, and an important indicator and correlate of economic development. As such, the sector is a primary target for policy-makers seeking to …
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Climate change impacts on electricity and residential energy demand
The energy sector is both affected by climate change and a key sector for climate protection measures. Energy security is the backbone of our modern society and guarantees the functioning of most critical infrastructure. Thus, decision makers and energy suppliers of different countries should be …
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A szabályozó eszközök rengetegében. A villamosenergia-szektor piaci kudarcait kezelő szabályozó eszközök egymásra hatásának vizsgálata = In the jungle of regulatory instruments. Analysis of the interaction of regulatory instruments dealing with the market failures of the electricity sector
… There are a number of market failures within the electricity sector, of which we introduced three in detail in our dissertation: environmental externalities, market failures related to energy efficiency investments, and negative externality of carbon-dioxide emission. A number of regulatory …
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Power Market Structure: Competition Law Enforcement and Electricity Security
Market reforms in the electricity sector along with the introduction of competition into the electricity markets has led to both state-owned enterprises and private enterprises operating in the same electricity markets although the states or national institutions regulate the electricity markets. …
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Power system planning: an integrated techno-economic and portfolio approach
The electricity sector can be afflicted with different types of risk, in particular fuel price fluctuations can highly impact the price of electricity. The most common tools used in power planning apply a minimum cost approach to it in order to find an appropriate electricity matrix. These tend to …
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Analysis of energy delivery sector malware attack response mechanisms
Recent cyberattacks on the electricity grids in the U.S. and Ukraine, the rise of malware tailored to industrial control systems, failure of basic sanitary and life-saving systems after prolonged power outages, economic losses numbering in the billions: these are the consequences of malware attacks …
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