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Liam Wagner - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Australian Renewable Energy Policy: Barriers and Challenges
2013Co-Authors: Liam Byrnes, Colin G. Brown, John Foster, Liam WagnerAbstract:Australia’s renewable Energy Policy has taken significant steps towards encouraging the deployment of lower carbon emissions Energy generation. Effective Policy and regulatory frameworks are paramount to incentivising the deployment of renewable Energy to achieve long term reductions in carbon emissions. However significant Policy barriers still exist at the federal and state levels, which have reduced the effectiveness of a concerted national effort to deploy renewables. The current Policy landscape has largely favoured mature technologies which present the lowest investment risk at the expense of emerging options which may present greater efficiency and emissions reduction gains. The lack of support for emerging technologies delays their effective deployment and the accumulation of highly skilled human capital, until the medium to long term. This paper outlines the key Policy frameworks, incentives and regulatory environment which encompasses the renewable Energy sector, and presents a critical analysis of the barriers faced by the industry.
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Australian renewable Energy Policy: Barriers and challenges
Renewable Energy, 2013Co-Authors: Liam Byrnes, Colin G. Brown, John Foster, Liam WagnerAbstract:Effective Policy and regulatory frameworks are paramount to incentivising the deployment of renewable Energy to achieve long term reductions in carbon emissions. Australia’s renewable Energy Policy has taken significant steps towards encouraging the deployment of lower-emission Energy generation. Significant Policy barriers still exist at the federal and state levels, however, which have reduced the effectiveness of a concerted national effort to deploy renewables. The current Policy landscape has favoured mature technologies which present the lowest investment risk at the expense of emerging options which may present greater efficiency and emissions reduction gains. The lack of support for emerging technologies delays their effective deployment and the accumulation of highly skilled human capital, until the medium to long term. This paper outlines the key Policy frameworks, incentives and regulatory environment which encompasses the renewable Energy sector, and presents a critical analysis of the barriers faced by the industry.
Jan Osička - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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anatomy of a black sheep the roots of the czech republic s pro nuclear Energy Policy
Energy research and social science, 2017Co-Authors: Jan Osička, Filip CernochAbstract:Nuclear Energy is one of the cornerstones of the contemporary Czech Energy Policy. In the country of ten million people, six commercial reactors are on line and two to four new units have been envisaged by recent official documents. The Czechs seem to be committed to nuclear despite the contemporary trends in both the regional and European Energy policies, which clearly favor renewable and/or more flexible conventional sources. In this article we examine the main drivers behind the Czech Republic's enduring interest in nuclear Energy. The main line of reasoning is informed by Jack Snyder's strategic culture concept, which stresses cultural factors and factors related to the structural characteristics of a country's decision-making process in explaining how concrete policies come into existence. Since such a perspective is rather rare in the field of Energy Policy analysis, the broader aim of this article is to attract more scientific attention to explanations that go beyond standard techno-economical or systemic analyses.
Jose Maria Martinolalla - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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traffic accident increase attributed to daylight saving time doubled after Energy Policy act
Current Biology, 2020Co-Authors: Jose Maria MartinolallaAbstract:: Martin-Olalla argues that an important factor in the association between motor vehicle fatalities and the switch to Daylight Saving Time is the timing of the switch, which in the US changed with the Energy Policy Act of 2005.
Dieter Helm - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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peak oil and Energy Policy a critique
Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2011Co-Authors: Dieter HelmAbstract:Energy Policy has frequently been based upon assumptions about future oil prices. At the end of the 1970s it was assumed oil prices would continue to rise. Now a similar assumption pervades Policy design. This article critiques the peak oil hypotheses which lie behind these forecasts and Policy beliefs, and considers that, from a climate change perspective, the challenge is too much not too little fossil fuel reserves. The coming of shale gas, its fungibility with oil via the electrification of transport, along with technological advances in increasing the depletion rates of existing wells and new reserves, together undermine that assumption that rising oil prices will rapidly make renewable and other low-carbon technologies cost competitive without subsidies. The paper suggests indexing carbon prices to the oil price, infrastructure investment, strategic storage, and a focus on market failures provides a superior approach to Energy Policy rather than relying on forecasts of oil prices and picking winners. Copyright 2011, Oxford University Press.
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Energy the state and the market british Energy Policy since 1979
2003Co-Authors: Dieter HelmAbstract:The transformation of Britain's Energy Policy in the last two decades has been more radical than any such change in developed economies. Since 1979 the great state Energy monopolies created after the Second World War have been privatised and made subject to competition. Images of Arthur Scargill and the miners' strike of the 1980s remain vivid, but what effect has the new market philosophy had on Britain's Energy industries? Since 1979 the National Coal Board, British Gas, and the Central Electricity Generating Board have all been broken up. Energy trading, electricity pools, auctions, and futures markets first developed, but they failed to solve the old Energy Policy problems of security of supply and network integrity, and the new ones of the environment and reliance on gas. The government introduced a new regulatory regime as a temporary necessity but regulation did not wither away, rather it grew to be more pervasive. Changing the ownership of the industries did not reduce the government's involvement, it simply changed its form. The 1980s and 1990s were years of Energy surpluses and low fossil-fuel prices. There was little need to invest, and much of the investment in the so-called dash for gas was artificially stimulated. The new owners sweated the assets, and engaged in major financial engineering. Takeovers consolidated the industry into a smaller number of dominant firms. As investment priorities became more urgent, with the environmental pressures of climate change and the gradual switch to imported gas, the market philosophy was found wanting. Energy Policy could not rely solely on the market. And it is the government which finds itself responsible for resolving the core issues of Energy Policy. Helm's book tells this story. It is a major study of the new market approach to Energy Policy in Britain since 1979. It describes the miners' strike, the privatisations of the gas, electricity, nuclear generation, and coal industries, and looks at events such as the dash for gas, regulatory failures in setting monopoly prices, and the takeovers and the consolidations of the late 1990s. Helm sets out the achievements of the new market philosophy, but also analyses why it has ultimately failed to turn Energy industries into normal commodity businesses. The revised paperback edition includes a new chapter on the White Paper on a low-carbon economy and updated discussions on nuclear power, to incorporate the 2003 Nuclear White Paper, price reviews, and emissions trading.
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Energy the state and the market british Energy Policy since 1979
2003Co-Authors: Dieter HelmAbstract:1. Introduction 2. The Inheritance: State Ownership, Monopoly, and Planning 3. First Steps Towards the Market Philosophy 4. Thatcher and Scargill: Getting Off the Labour Standard 5. The Nuclear Option in the 1980s: Security of Supply and National Energy Independence 6. Missed Opportunity: British Gas Privatization 7. Electricity Privatization 8. The Transition to Competition in the Electricity Industry 9. Preparing for the End of British Coal: Privatization and Decline 10. Nuclear Privatization and the End of the Nuclear Dream 11. Regulatory Failure and Financial Engineering: The RECs' First Review 12. Takeover Mania and Capital Market Competition 13. The Break-Up of British Gas 14. Domestic Competition in Gas and Electricity 15. Regulatory Reform and New Labour 16. Energy Sources, Diversity, and Long-Term Security of Supply 17. NETA and the Consolidation of Generation 18. Price Reviews Again: Asset-Sweating or Investment? 19. The Environment Moves Centre Stage 20. The European Dimension 21. Energy Policy Revisited 22. A Low-carbon Economy 23. Reinventing Energy Policy
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Energy Policy security of supply sustainability and competition
Energy Policy, 2002Co-Authors: Dieter HelmAbstract:Abstract The paper considers the main components of Energy Policy, in particular the challenges of network security of supply, long-term contracts and the environmental constraints. It is argued that Policy should take account of multiple market failures and context dependent. Given Energy liberalisation in the 1980s and 1990s, interventions based upon market-based instruments should be given greater prominence. Institutional reform to reflect the shift in focus towards investment in non-carbon technologies and the security issues associated with networks is proposed, notably the creation of an Energy agency.
Catherine Mitchell - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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measuring and explaining Policy paradigm change the case of uk Energy Policy
Policy and Politics, 2014Co-Authors: Florian Kern, Caroline Kuzemko, Catherine MitchellAbstract:This paper contributes to the literature on institutional change by creating a framework, based on the work of Peter Hall, that both measures and explains Policy paradigm change. It claims that UK Energy Policy did undergo a paradigm shift according to the framework used here. Two initially separate narratives, climate change and Energy security, are found to have performed central functions within the process of change. This finding runs contrary to assumptions within sociological institutionalism. Furthermore, this paper concludes that the Policy paradigm change appears to have had limited impact so far on core socio-technical characteristics of the Energy system.
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renewable Energy Policy in the uk 1990 2003
Energy Policy, 2004Co-Authors: Catherine Mitchell, Peter M ConnorAbstract:Abstract The UK's renewable Energy Policy has been characterised by opportunism, cost-limiting caps and continuous adjustments resulting from a lack of clarity of goals. Renewable electricity has had a specific delivery mechanism in place since 1990. The Non-Fossil Fuel Obligation (NFFO) did not deliver deployment; did not create mentors; did not promote diversity; was focussed on electricity and was generally beneficial only to large companies. A new support mechanism, the Renewable Obligation, began in April 2002. This may result in more deployment than the NFFO, but is also beneficial to electricity-generating technologies and large, established companies only. The UK Government published a visionary Energy Policy in early 2003 placing the UK on a path to cutting carbon dioxide emissions by 60% in 2050. This paper argues that unless the Government ‘learns’ from it's past results, mistakes and difficulties, clarifies the reasons for supporting renewable Energy and then follows through with a focussed Policy aimed at delivery, diversity and the creation of mentors, it is likely to be no more successful than the previous 13 years of renewable Policy.
