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Security Issues: EU Standards for energy security of supply

Martin Scheepers, ECN, The Netherlands In a review process to assess the energy security of supply (SoS) for the EU and individual Member States, standards ca...

Energy Modelling: How to evaluate the importance of oil in economic growth?

Ikka Lavonius, Independent Consultant, Oxford Vanity tempts us to use terms which imply the great importance of our particular field. For example, the label "O...

Security Issues: Measuring Supply Security in Electricity Markets

Jostein Kristensen, Oxera Plant margins are often used as high-level indicators of the level of generation supply security. However, in dynamic markets, where ...

Climbing the energy ladder: the role of economic growth in determining energy demand

The ‘energy ladder’ concept captures the idea that there is a systematic, nonlinear relationship between energy use and economic activity, illustrated in Fi...

Decentralisation Issues: The Economic Value and Carbon Dioxide Emission Implications of Community Heating Network versus Micro Combined Heat and Power Energy Provision in the UK

Adam Hawkes and Matthew Leach, Imperial College Community heating (CH) provides a potentially economic and efficient means of supplying heat to a number of bui...

Transport: Contracting UK carbon emissions: implications for UK aviation

Alice Bows, University of Manchester Stabilising atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations at or below 550ppmv is widely believed to be necessary to avoid ‘d...

Transport: Effect of a Pay-As-You-Drive charge on the adoption of lower carbon vehicles

Ben Lane, EcoLane and James Warren, OU It is now becoming clear that the ACEA voluntary agreement for reducing CO2 emissions from new cars to 140g/km by 2008 ...

Transport: The demand for gasoline in Japan to 2020 and new car fuel efficiency

David Bonilla, University of Cambridge Japanese private vehicle fuel efficiency has not improved significantly since 1989. The objective of the paper is to pre...

High Energy Prices and the World Economy

Christopher Allsopp, Oxford Energy Institute The relationship between energy prices and the world economy is examined. World growth has been strong and benign ...

Geopolitics: The New Security Environment for European Gas: Worsening Geopolitics and Increasing Global Competition for LNG

Jonathan Stern, Oxford Energy Institute The combination of impending decline of indigenous production, political and institutional obstacles to gas export de...

Geopolitics: Understanding Gazprom

Nicholas Perry, PES Ltd Russian military doctrine would encourage Gazprom to ‘think in 4-D’, to move swiftly, unexpectedly, and on multiple axes, to ‘con...

Geopolitics: Commitments through Financial Options: A Way to Facilitate Compliance with Climate Change Obligations

Karsten Neuhoff, University of Cambridge This paper has shown that states can overcome both the internal and the external commitment problem and thus credibly ...
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