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This article provides an introduction to the European Union (EU) Emissions Trading System (ETS). First we describe the legislative development of the EU ETS, its evolution from free allocation to auctioning and centralized allocation rules, its relationship to the Kyoto Protocol and other trading systems, and its relationship to other EU climate and energy policies. This is followed by an assessment ...
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Review of Environmental Economics and Policy
10 (2016), 1, S. 89-107
| Denny Ellerman, Claudio Marcantonini, Aleksandar Zaklan
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The upheaval in global crude oil markets and the boom in shale oil production in North America brought scrutiny on the US export ban for crude oil from 1975. The ban was eventually lifted in early 2016. This paper examines the shifts of global trade flows and strategic refinery investments in a spatial, game-theoretic partial equilibrium model. We consider detailed oil supply chain infrastructure with ...
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Energy Policy
97 (2016), S. 258-266
| Lissy Langer, Daniel Huppmann, Franziska Holz
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Recent supply security concerns in Europe have revived interest into the natural gas market. We investigate infrastructure investment and trade in an imperfect market structure for various possible risks for both supply and demand. We focus on three possible scenarios in a stochastic global gas market model: (i) transit of Russian gas via Ukraine that may be disrupted from 2020 on; (ii) natural gas ...
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Energy Policy
94 (2016), S. 468-479
| Ruud Egging, Franziska Holz
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Natural gas plays an important role in the global energy system as an input to power generation, heating, and industry. This article identifies key drivers and uncertainties for natural gas markets in the coming decades. These include the availability of natural gas from conventional and unconventional sources, the role of international trade, and the impact of climate policies. We build on model-based ...
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Review of Environmental Economics and Policy
9 (2015), Iss. 1, 85-106
| Franziska Holz, Philipp M. Richter, Ruud Egging
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This article provides an overview of the natural gas industry, which we view as a bridge fuel toward a lower-carbon energy system in many countries and regions around the world. Based on a review of the literature, an econometric analysis of natural gas prices and contracts, and the authors’ experience with the natural gas industry, this introductory article to the symposium on the Prospects for Natural ...
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Review of Environmental Economics and Policy
9 (2015), Iss. 1, 64-84
| Anne Neumann, Christian von Hirschhausen
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U.S. shale gas production is generally expected to continue its fast rise of the last years. However, a cautious evaluation is needed. Shale gas resources are potentially overestimated and it is uncertain to what extent they can be economically produced. The adverse environmental effects of ever more wells being drilled may lead to a fall in public acceptance and the strengthening of U.S. regulation. ...
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Economics of Energy and Environmental Policy
4 (2015), 1, S. 131-151
| Philipp M. Richter
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The 2014 Russian–Ukrainian crisis reignited European concerns about natural gas supply security recalling the experiences of 2006 and 2009. However, the European supply situation, regulation and infrastructure have changed, with better diversified import sources, EU member states being better connected and a common regulation on the security of supply has been introduced. Nevertheless, European dependency ...
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Energy Policy
80 (2015), S. 177-189
| Philipp M. Richter, Franziska Holz
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In this paper, we develop a model to analyze the economics of carbon capture, transport, and storage (CCTS) in the wake of expected rising CO2 prices. We present a scalable mixed integer, multiperiod, welfare-optimizing network model for Europe, called CCTS-Mod. The model incorporates endogenous decisions on carbon capture, pipeline and storage investments, as well as capture, flow and injection quantities ...
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Environmental Modeling and Assessment
19 (2014), 6, S. 515-531
| Pao-Yu Oei, Johannes Herold, Roman Mendelevitch
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In this paper, we derive a new effect of trade liberalization on the quality of the environment. We show that in the presence of heterogeneous firms, the aggregate volume of emissions is influenced by a reallocation effect resulting from an increase in the relative size of more productive firms. The relative importance of this reallocation effect and the scale effect well-known from the literature ...
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Review of International Economics
22 (2014), 2, S. 209-225
| Udo Kreickemeier, Philipp M. Richter
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Assessing and quantifying the impacts of technological, economic, and policy shifts in the global energy system require large-scale numerical models. We propose a dynamic multi-fuel market equilibrium model that combines endogenous fuel substitution within demand sectors and in power generation, detailed infrastructure capacity constraints and investment, as well as strategic behaviour and market power ...
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Energy
75 (2014), S. 483-500
| Daniel Huppmann, Ruud Egging