Recently added articles from The Energy Journal:
Willingness-to-pay for quality of service: an application to efficiency analysis of the UK electricity distribution utilities.
Oct 01, 2009; ... 1. Introduction Incentive regulation of the price and quality of the service of distribution networks are current topics in liberalised electricity sectors. The aim of incentive regulation is to provide utilities with incentives to improve their efficiency and to ensure that ...
Green accounting for black gold.
Oct 01, 2009; ... 1. NON-OBSERVABILITY, NON-CONVEXITY, NON-OPTIMALITY The aim of environmental accounting is to record the contribution of the environment to human well-being and any change in its ability to make that contribution. As elsewhere in environmental economics, the technological and ...
Interregional sharing of energy conservation targets in China: efficiency and equity.
Oct 01, 2009; ... Energy conservation is a long-term strategic policy in China to support its economic and social development. This strategy is important for saving resources, protecting the environment, and ensuring a secure supply of energy. However, energy conservation often involves large amounts of ...
Revisiting the inflationary effects of oil prices.
Oct 01, 2009; ... 1. Introduction High oil prices have been blamed for both weaker growth and higher inflation as documented in a large number of studies. (1) Although it is debatable whether oil shocks are the major cause of recessions (see, e.g., Bohi (1989)), there is a wide consensus that oil ...
Demand subsidies versus R&D: comparing the uncertain impacts of policy on a pre-commercial low-carbon energy technology.
Oct 01, 2009; ... 1. INTRODUCTION Meaningfully addressing the problem of global climate change, while affordably meeting the world's growing demand for energy, will require the deployment of several terawatts of low-carbon energy generation technologies over the next several decades. The scale of ...