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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 ...

Innovation Policy: Ofgem, distributed generation and innovation: Recent Initiatives

Bridget Woodman, Warwick Business School Increasing levels of distributed generation are expected to connect to distribution networks in the UK over the next f...

Innovation Policy: Corporate Strategy and Technological Innovation Systems: Integrating Individual Agency into the systems’ approach

Till Stenzl, Imperial College Recent contributions in the literature have criticized the Innovation Systems approach for neglecting individual agency and overl...

Innovation Policy: The Sailing Ship Effect and its Potential Influence on Energy Transitions and Policy

Peter Pearson, Imperial College The (contested) hypothesis of the Sailing Ship Effect (hereafter SSE) suggests that for some technologies the advent of a new a...

Energy Policies in a Global Context

Paul Chambers, Defra Forecast global carbon reductions from 2002 to 2030 are reviewed, indicating that energy efficiency is expected to account for over 50% of...
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