nep-ene New Economics Papers
on Energy Economics
Issue of 2013‒05‒22
twenty-one papers chosen by
Roger Fouquet
Basque Climate Change Centre, Bilbao
  1. Fuel Pricing and Subsidies in Indonesia : Reaching an Equitable and Sustainable Policy By World Bank
  2. Assessing the Impact of Higher Oil Prices in Latin America By World Bank
  3. MENA Regional Economic Update By Caroline Freund; Elena Ianchovichina
  4. The Grey Paradox: How Oil Owners Can Benefit From Carbon Regulation By Renaud Coulomb; Fanny Henriet
  5. Trade and Investment Policies to Promote Climate Friendly Technologies in APEC Economies By World Bank
  6. Burgos Wind Farm Project : The Philippines Technical Desk Review By Tom Cronin; Niels-Erik Clausen; Morten Nielsen; Erik Jørgensen
  7. Integrated Air Pollution Management in China : Developing Particulate Matter Control By World Bank
  8. Technical Guide to Actions on Global Warming and Clean Development Mechanism in Sri Lanka By B.M.S. Batagoda; S.P. Nissanka; Suren Wijekoon; Avanthie Jaytilake
  9. Europe and Central Asia Balancing Act : Cutting Subsidies, Protecting Affordability, and Investing in the Energy Sector in Eastern Europe and Central Asia Region By World Bank
  10. Analysis of the Iran Oil Embargo By Alban Kitous; Bert Saveyn; Steve Gervais; Tobias Wiesenthal; Antonio Soria
  11. ICT Solutions for Energy Efficiency By Richard Youngman
  12. A"greenprint"for international cooperation on climate change By Mattoo, Aaditya; Subramanian, Arvind
  13. Why do CO2 emissions from heavy road freight transports increase in spite of higher fuel prices? By Vierth , Inge
  14. Energia Fotovoltaica Ligada à Rede Elétrica: Atratividade Para o Consumidor Final e Possíveis Impactos no Sistema Elétrico By Andrea Felippe Cabello; Fabiano Mezadre Pompermayer
  15. Republic of Congo : Mining Sector Review By World Bank
  16. Japanese Manufacturing Facing the Power Crisis after Fukushima: A Dynamic Computable General Equilibrium Analysis with Foreign Direct Investment By Nobuhiro Hosoe
  17. Lessons Learned from Nigeria : The Case of Cameroun and Ghana By World Bank
  18. A Policy Framework for Green Transportation in Georgia : Achieving Reforms and Building Infrastructure for Sustainability By World Bank
  19. EVIDENCE OF AN “ENERGY-MANAGEMENT GAP” IN U.S. MANUFACTURING: SPILLOVERS FROM FIRM MANAGEMENT PRACTICES TO ENERGY EFFICIENCY By Gale Boyd; Mark Curtis
  20. FREILOT. Urban Freight Energy Efficiency Pilot. D.FL.6.4. Cost-benefit analysis By Jesus Gonzalez-Feliu; Bruno Faivre D'Arcier; Nerea Rojas; Pierre Basck; Mathieu Gardrat; Christian Ambrosini; Gilles Vernoux; Garoa Lekuona; Fernando Zubillaga
  21. Lao PDR - Power to the People : Twenty Years of National Electrification By World Bank
  1. By: World Bank
    Keywords: Macroeconomics and Economic Growth - Markets and Market Access Transport Economics Policy and Planning Oil Refining and Gas Industry Energy - Energy Production and Transportation Environmental Economics and Policies Industry Environment Transport
    Date: 2012
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wbk:wboper:12712&r=ene
  2. By: World Bank
    Keywords: Macroeconomics and Economic Growth - Markets and Market Access Energy - Energy and Environment Oil Refining & Gas Industry Energy - Energy Production and Transportation Environment - Environment and Energy Efficiency Industry
    Date: 2012–06
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wbk:wboper:11889&r=ene
  3. By: Caroline Freund; Elena Ianchovichina
    Keywords: Energy - Energy and Environment Oil Refining and Gas Industry Energy - Energy Demand Energy - Energy Production and Transportation Environment - Environment and Energy Efficiency Industry
    Date: 2012–05
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wbk:wboper:10838&r=ene
  4. By: Renaud Coulomb (PSE - Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques - CNRS : UMR8545 - École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales [EHESS] - Ecole des Ponts ParisTech - Ecole normale supérieure de Paris - ENS Paris - Institut national de la recherche agronomique (INRA), EEP-PSE - Ecole d'Économie de Paris - Paris School of Economics - Ecole d'Économie de Paris); Fanny Henriet (PSE - Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques - CNRS : UMR8545 - École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales [EHESS] - Ecole des Ponts ParisTech - Ecole normale supérieure de Paris - ENS Paris - Institut national de la recherche agronomique (INRA), EEP-PSE - Ecole d'Économie de Paris - Paris School of Economics - Ecole d'Économie de Paris)
    Abstract: This paper studies how oil owners can benefit from carbon taxation. We build a Hotelling-like model with three energy resources: oil (exhaustible, polluting), coal (non exhaustible, very polluting) and solar energy (non exhaustible, non polluting). The CO2 concentration must be kept under a carbon ceiling. The optimal extraction path is decentralized by a tax on emissions, and tax revenues are not redistributed. We characterize the different extraction paths. We focus on the case where both oil and coal are extracted and oil gets exhausted. When oil is cheaper to extract than coal, if oil is sufficiently scarce, or if the extraction cost of oil is close enough to the extraction cost of coal or if its pollution content is low enough, or if the demand elasticity is low enough, the profits of oil owners will increase when the carbon regulation is tightened. When oil is more expensive to extract than coal, and both resources are used and oil exhausted, tightening the carbon regulation increases the oil profits.
    Keywords: Optimal Taxation ; Carbon Regulation ; Global Warming ; Nonrenewable Resources ; OPEC; Fossil Fuels ; Energy Markets
    Date: 2013–04
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:psewpa:hal-00818350&r=ene
  5. By: World Bank
    Keywords: Environment - Climate Change Mitigation and Green House Gases Macroeconomics and Economic Growth - Climate Change Economics Energy - Energy and Environment Energy - Energy Production and Transportation Environment - Environment and Energy Efficiency
    Date: 2012–01
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wbk:wboper:13038&r=ene
  6. By: Tom Cronin; Niels-Erik Clausen; Morten Nielsen; Erik Jørgensen
    Keywords: Science and Technology Development - Science of Climate Change Environment - Climate Change Mitigation and Green House Gases Environment - Carbon Policy and Trading Energy - Energy Production and Transportation Energy - Windpower
    Date: 2012
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wbk:wboper:12919&r=ene
  7. By: World Bank
    Keywords: Air Quality & Clean Air Environment - Climate Change Mitigation and Green House Gases Transport Economics Policy & Planning Environmental Economics & Policies Energy - Energy Production and Transportation Transport
    Date: 2012–06
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wbk:wboper:11913&r=ene
  8. By: B.M.S. Batagoda; S.P. Nissanka; Suren Wijekoon; Avanthie Jaytilake
    Keywords: Environment - Climate Change Mitigation and Green House Gases Environment - Montreal Protocol Energy - Energy and Environment Environment - Carbon Policy and Trading Environment - Environment and Energy Efficiency
    Date: 2012
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wbk:wboper:12688&r=ene
  9. By: World Bank
    Keywords: Environment - Climate Change Mitigation and Green House Gases Energy - Energy and Environment Energy - Energy Production and Transportation Environmental Economics & Policies Environment - Environment and Energy Efficiency
    Date: 2012–06
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wbk:wboper:11910&r=ene
  10. By: Alban Kitous (European Commission – JRC - IPTS); Bert Saveyn (European Commission – JRC - IPTS); Steve Gervais (European Commission – JRC - IPTS); Tobias Wiesenthal (European Commission – JRC - IPTS); Antonio Soria (European Commission – JRC - IPTS)
    Abstract: This report analyses the macro-economic, sectoral, and energy effects of an Iranian oil embargo. Five scenarios are analysed reflecting various degrees of oil scarcity on the global market and different sizes of embargo coalitions. The report estimates the macro-economic impacts using the global general equilibrium model GEM-E3. The international oil and energy markets are assessed with the POLES model. This provides the impacts in prices and quantities in the international energy (oil) market. Impacts on trade flows regarding refined oil products are estimated with the OURSE model.
    Keywords: oil embargo, Iran, modelling, oil market, macro-economic impact
    Date: 2013–01
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ipt:iptwpa:jrc77983&r=ene
  11. By: Richard Youngman
    Keywords: Private Sector Development - E-Business Technology Industry Environment - Climate Change Mitigation and Green House Gases Transport Economics Policy and Planning Energy - Energy Production and Transportation Industry Transport
    Date: 2012
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wbk:wboper:12685&r=ene
  12. By: Mattoo, Aaditya; Subramanian, Arvind
    Abstract: International negotiations on climate change have been dogged by mutual recriminations between rich and poor countries, constricted by the zero-sum arithmetic of a shrinking global carbon budget, and overtaken by shifts in economic power between industrialized and developing countries. To overcome these"narrative,""adding-up,"and"new world"problems, respectively, this paper proposes a new Greenprint for cooperation. First, the large dynamic emerging economies -- China, India, Brazil, and Indonesia -- must assume the mantle of leadership, offering contributions of their own and prodding the reluctant industrial countries into action. This role reversal would be consistent with the greater stakes for the dynamic emerging economies. Second, the emphasis must be on technology generation. This would allow greater consumption and production possibilities for all countries while respecting the global emissions budget that is dictated by the climate change goal of keeping average temperature rise below 2 degrees centigrade. Third, instead of the old cash-for-cuts approach -- which relies on the industrial countries offering cash (which they do not have) to the dynamic emerging economies for cuts (that they are unwilling to make) -- all major emitters must make contributions. With a view to galvanizing a technology revolution, industrial countries would take early action to raise carbon prices. The dynamic emerging economies would in turn eliminate fossil fuel subsidies, commit to matching carbon price increases in the future, allow limited border taxes against their own exports, and strengthen protection of intellectual property for green technologies. This would directly and indirectly facilitate such a technological revolution.
    Keywords: Climate Change Mitigation and Green House Gases,Climate Change Economics,Environmental Economics&Policies,Energy Production and Transportation,Carbon Policy and Trading
    Date: 2013–05–01
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wbk:wbrwps:6440&r=ene
  13. By: Vierth , Inge (VTI)
    Abstract: The paper analyses why CO2 emissions from heavy road freight transports increase in spite of higher fuel prices. Swedish time series data for the period 1990-2011 are analyzed with help of indicators. The logistic efficiency of the road transports improved especially in the 1990-ties due to the allowance of heavier trucks. Also the energy efficiency increased during that period. Since then there have been improvements but no major efficiency gains have been realized. Today potentially cost effective technologies exist to further reduce the CO2 emissions from heavy road freight transport. However, technical, institutional and financial barriers reduce the incentives for the transport firms to imply these. Split incentives caused by contract structures or ownership patterns can impede the employment of these technologies, as the firms that invest in the technologies have little incentive to do so. If fuel savings are realized rebound effects can appear that cancel out improved energy efficiency. The internalisation of the social marginal costs can lead to modal shifts to less carbon intensive modes, but shippers minimize their total costs and take into account quality aspects when choosing transport solutions. There are obstacles for the increase of the share of non-fossil energies in form of access to raw material, infrastructure for vehicles that can use the alternative fuels etc. On the national and international road freight transport markets staff costs are often more important than taxes and fees. Deeper knowledge of the impacts of different policy measures is required in order to understand why the CO2 emissions increase despite increased fuel prices. A better understanding of the implications of the lack of thresholds and other model simplifications in the Swedish Samgods model is also needed and an analysis of what is required to better mirror the contracts that we observe in reality. It is also necessary to study the role of the lighter trucks in the transport chains.
    Keywords: CO2 emissions; Road freight transport; Climate policy measures; Barriers; Split incentives
    JEL: R41 R48
    Date: 2013–05–08
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hhs:ctswps:2013_004&r=ene
  14. By: Andrea Felippe Cabello; Fabiano Mezadre Pompermayer
    Abstract: Este trabalho discute a inserção da microgeração distribuída de energia elétrica a partir da energia solar fotovoltaica. Apresentou-se um resumo da experiência internacional na inserção desta tecnologia, comparando seus objetivos com a situação brasileira. É feita uma avaliação da atratividade econômica de se instalarem painéis fotovoltaicos em residências brasileiras, com base no custo da energia elétrica convencional, fornecida pelas concessionárias de distribuição. Esta avaliação considera a oferta de equipamentos no mercado doméstico e os índices de insolação de cada região, bem como as tarifas residenciais praticadas em 2012. Alguns municípios já teriam o custo da energia fotovoltaica bem próximo das tarifas praticadas, em especial nas situações com alíquotas de impostos mais elevadas. Confirmada a possibilidade desta energia se tornar viável nos próximos anos, discutiram-se alguns impactos de sua inserção no sistema elétrico brasileiro, em especial o fato de que sua geração ocorre em horário do dia distinto do horário de pico de consumo na rede elétrica. Como sugestão de política pública para minimizar este problema, recomendou-se que o usuário, que se tornar microgerador e quiser injetar a energia excedente na rede elétrica, seja obrigado a migrar para a tarifa horossazonal, chamada de Tarifa Branca na classe de consumo residencial. Desta forma, a energia injetada seria remunerada a um preço mais condizente com o custo da energia elétrica no instante em que a energia solar está disponível. This paper discusses the insertion of distributed microgeneration of electricity using solar photovoltaics. We present, briefly, the international experience implementing solar energy programs, comparing their goals with the Brazilian situation. An evaluation of the economic attractiveness of installing photovoltaic panels on homes in Brazil is developed, based on the fares of conventional electricity supplied by utilities. This analysis considers the supply of such equipment in the domestic market and the insolation rates of each region, as well as the fares for residential consumers prevailing in 2012. i. As versões em língua inglesa das sinopses desta coleção não são objeto de revisão pelo Editorial do Ipea. The versions in English of the abstracts of this series have not been edited by Ipea’s publishing department.In some cities, the cost of photovoltaic energy would already be low enough in comparison with such fares, especially in situations with higher tax rates. Confirmed the possibility of this kind of energy become viable in the years ahead, we discuss some impacts of its insertion in the Brazilian electric system, especially the fact that this generation occurs at different times of the day-peek consumption in the electric grid.As a public policy suggestion to minimize this problem, we recommend that the user, who becomes a microgenerator and want to inject excess power on the grid, is required to migrate to the hourly fare scheme, called the White Fare in the residential consumption class. Thus, the energy injected would be remunerated at a price more in line with the cost of electricity at the moment that the solar energy is available.
    Date: 2013–02
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ipe:ipetds:1812&r=ene
  15. By: World Bank
    Keywords: Mining and Extractive Industry (Non-Energy) Water Supply and Sanitation - Sanitation and Sewerage Water Supply and Sanitation - Wastewater Treatment Environment - Climate Change Mitigation and Green House Gases Environmental Economics and Policies Industry
    Date: 2012–10
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wbk:wboper:13243&r=ene
  16. By: Nobuhiro Hosoe (National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies)
    Abstract: The Great East Japan Earthquake and the subsequent tsunami hit and destroyed the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. People lost trust in the safety of nuclear power plants, and the regulatory authority became reluctant to permit power companies to restart their nuclear power plants. To make up for the lost nuclear power supply, thermal power plants started operating more. They consume more fossil fuels, which raises power charges. This power crisis is anticipated to raise energy input costs and to force the domestic manufacturing industries to move out to, for example, China through foreign direct investment (FDI). Using a world trade computable general equilibrium model, with recursive dynamics installed to describe both domestic investment and FDI from Japan to China, we simulate the power crisis by assuming lost capital stock and intensified fossil fuel use by the power sector to investigate its impact on the Japanese manufacturing sectors. We found that the power crisis would adversely affect several sectors that use power intensively but would benefit the transportation equipment, electric equipment, and machinery sectors, despite the common expectation that these sectors would undergo a so-called “hollowing-out.”
    Date: 2013–05
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ngi:dpaper:13-01&r=ene
  17. By: World Bank
    Keywords: International Economics and Trade - Access to Markets Energy Conservation and Efficiency Macroeconomics and Economic Growth - Markets and Market Access Transport Economics Policy and Planning Energy - Energy Production and Transportation Transport
    Date: 2012–01
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wbk:wboper:12732&r=ene
  18. By: World Bank
    Keywords: Urban Development - Transport in Urban Areas Roads & Highways Transport Economics Policy & Planning Environmental Economics & Policies Energy - Energy Production and Transportation Environment Transport
    Date: 2012–06
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wbk:wboper:11899&r=ene
  19. By: Gale Boyd; Mark Curtis
    Abstract: In this paper we merge a well-cited survey of firm management practices into confidential U.S. Census microdata to examine whether generic, i.e. non-energy specific, firm management practices, ”spillover” to enhance energy efficiency in the United States. We find the relationship in U.S. plants to be more nuanced than past research on UK plants has suggested. Most management techniques have beneficial spillovers to energy efficiency, but an emphasis on generic targets, conditional on other management practices, results in spillovers that increase energy intensity. Our specification controls for industry specific effects at a detailed 6-digit NAICS level and shows that this result is stronger for firms in energy intensive industries. We interpret the empirical result that generic management practices do not necessarily spillover to improved energy performance as evidence of an “energy management gap.”
    Date: 2013–04
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cen:wpaper:13-25&r=ene
  20. By: Jesus Gonzalez-Feliu (LET - Laboratoire d'économie des transports - CNRS : UMR5593 - École Nationale des Travaux Publics de l'État [ENTPE] - Université Lumière - Lyon II); Bruno Faivre D'Arcier (LET - Laboratoire d'économie des transports - CNRS : UMR5593 - École Nationale des Travaux Publics de l'État [ENTPE] - Université Lumière - Lyon II); Nerea Rojas (Mobility and Logistics Cluster Euskadi - Cluster Movilidad y logística Euskadi); Pierre Basck (LET - Laboratoire d'économie des transports - CNRS : UMR5593 - École Nationale des Travaux Publics de l'État [ENTPE] - Université Lumière - Lyon II); Mathieu Gardrat (LET - Laboratoire d'économie des transports - CNRS : UMR5593 - École Nationale des Travaux Publics de l'État [ENTPE] - Université Lumière - Lyon II); Christian Ambrosini (LET - Laboratoire d'économie des transports - CNRS : UMR5593 - École Nationale des Travaux Publics de l'État [ENTPE] - Université Lumière - Lyon II); Gilles Vernoux (Service gestion du trafic - Communauté Urbaine du Grand Lyon); Garoa Lekuona (Mobility and Logistics Cluster Euskadi - Cluster Movilidad y logística Euskadi); Fernando Zubillaga (Mobility and Logistics Cluster Euskadi - Cluster Movilidad y logística Euskadi)
    Abstract: This deliverable contains the cost-benefit analysis results (CBA) for the piloted services in order to feed the Business Model discussions. First, a brief description of the method and the main hypotheses are shown. Then, each single system is presented, making several CBA analyses (corresponding to hypothesised scenarios). The best scenario for each system is chosen in terms of economic viability then a socio-economic CBA is carried out. Finally, a discussion about mixing systems is provided.
    Keywords: Evaluation; assessment; urban goods; ICT; cost-benefit analysis
    Date: 2013–02–21
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:wpaper:halshs-00818832&r=ene
  21. By: World Bank
    Keywords: Private Sector Development - E-Business Infrastructure Economics and Finance - Infrastructure Economics Finance and Financial Sector Development - Debt Markets Finance and Financial Sector Development - Access to Finance Energy - Energy Production and Transportation
    Date: 2012
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wbk:wboper:12900&r=ene
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