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23.09.10

Economies of Scale vs the Learning Curve

 Joan MacNaughton, Alstom The global challenge is to reduce energy-related CO2 emissions and secure significant investment for generation plant. Meeting this ch...
23.09.10

Is small always beautiful or is bigger better?

 Dr Keith MacLean, SSE The policy context shows that there is: an unnatural pace, scale and technology mix required by national/international targets; a credit ...
23.09.10

Economies of Scale vs the Learning Curve in the Heat Sector

 Dr Gareth Davies, Poyry Tackling heat is vital to delivering a low-carbon future, given that heat production is responsible for nearly half of UK’s final ene...
23.09.10

The economics of gas storage investment

 Ivan Olzack , Oxera Despite longer-term policies to decarbonise the economy, UK dependence on imported gas is growing, driven in large part by gas use in the p...
23.09.10

The Effect of Royalties on oil and gas production

 Dr Clinton Levitt, Copenhagen Business School I develop a structural model of exploration and extraction that can be used to estimate the effectiveness of diff...
23.09.10

Contract Renegotiation and Rent Re-Redistribution: Who Gets Raked Over the Coals?

 Dr Ian Lange, University of Stirling Policy shocks affect the rent distribution in long-term contracts, which can lead to such contracts being renegotiated.  ...
23.09.10

The Oil Companies’ Approach To Renewable Energy

 Miss Ana Penha The research for this thesis, submitted in May 2009, focuses on the reasons for oil companies investing (or not) in renewable energy. During th...
23.09.10

Modelling the regional economic impacts of biofuels development

 Mr Grant Allan, Department of Economics, University of Strathclyde Biofuels offer the possibility of serving most, if not all, of the four goals of Scottish en...
23.09.10

Economic impacts of wind generation variability on gas network operation

 Dr Modassar Chaudry, Institute of Energy, Cardiff University Large capacity of wind generation is expected to be installed across Great Britain by 2020. Wind g...
23.09.10

The Formation of a Domestic and International Market for Tidal Energy Technologies: the Economic Implications for the UK

 Miss Michelle Gilmartin, Fraser of Allander Institute, University of Strathclyde World-wide interest in tidal power has increased in recent years, and this is ...
23.09.10

Lessons learned from New Zealand’s electricity market

 Mr Mike Parker, Transpower New Zealand Limited In the last twenty years, many countries have split up state-run, vertically integrated and centrally planned el...
23.09.10

Resource Adequacy and Renewable Energy in Competitive Wholesale Electricity Markets

 Dr Serena Hesmondhaigh, The Brattle Group Ltd We review a range of alternative wholesale electricity market designs in the context of the challenges of ensurin...
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