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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...

Innovation Policy: Influences on proportion of electricity generated by nuclear power around the world

D. Toke, Birmingham University The association between various variables and the proportion of electricity generated from nuclear power in countries around the...

Demand Policies: Incorporating Behavioural Responses within a Technology Optimization Energy Model

Ramachandran Kannan and Neil Strachan, Policy Studies Institute This paper details modelling efforts within the UK Energy Research Centre’s Energy System Mod...

Energy Modelling: Modelling UK Long-term Carbon Abatement Scenarios with UK MARKAL

Neil Strachan and Ramachandran Kannan, Policy Studies Institute This paper details the initial results of two year modelling project undertaken by the UK Energ...

Security Issues: Strategic storage and security of gas supply in the UK

David Cox and Andrew Nind, Poyry Energy Consulting The delivery of significant quantities of reliable, new gas supplies is required to meet future demand for g...

Energy Modelling: Carbon tax or carbon permits: the impact on generators’ risks

Richard Green, Birmingham University Volatile fuel prices affect both the cost and price of electricity in a liberalised market. Generators with the price-sett...

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...
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