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Energy Prices, Profits and Poverty

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Energy and Climate Change Committee
Publisher : Stationery Office/Tso
ISBN 13 : 9780215061416
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (614 download)

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Download or read book Energy Prices, Profits and Poverty written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Energy and Climate Change Committee and published by Stationery Office/Tso. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when many people are struggling with the rising costs of energy, consumers need reassurance that the profits being made by the Big Six are not excessive. The six largest energy companies are complex with several different arms - generating, trading and supplying energy - that sometimes sell energy and services to other parts of the same company. When reporting their overall profits they include all these different business arms making it difficult to determine the precise profits of the energy supply side of the business and how this impacts upon energy prices. Greater transparency is urgently needed. Ofgem is failing consumers by not taking all possible steps to improve openness and increase competition in the energy market. Considering consumers' lack of confidence in energy companies Ofgem should reconsider whether the transparency to be gained by implementing more of BDO's recommendations outweighs the costs involved. The Government is also not doing enough to help the millions of low-income families living in poorly insulated homes, struggling in 'fuel poverty'. Spending on the problem has been cut in England and some of the Government's fuel poverty programmes appear to be in hiatus. The use of levies on bills to fund social and environmental programmes will add to the burden faced by energy bill payers. The MPs argue that to help protect the most vulnerable more programmes should be funded through direct taxation rather than levies and the Government must respond to the Hills Review as a matter of urgency

Energy Prices, Profits and Poverty

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Energy and Climate Change Committee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780215062666
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (626 download)

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Download or read book Energy Prices, Profits and Poverty written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Energy and Climate Change Committee and published by . This book was released on 2013-10-10 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Responses to HC 108 (ISBN 9780215061416)

International Energy Markets

Author : Carol Ann Dahl
Publisher : PennWell Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis International Energy Markets by : Carol Ann Dahl

Download or read book International Energy Markets written by Carol Ann Dahl and published by PennWell Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is designed to provide the economic skills to make better management or policy decisions relating to energy. It requires a knowledge of calculus and contains a toolbox of models along with institutional, technological and historical information for oil, coal, electricity, and renewable energy resources.

Globalization and Poverty

Author : Ann Harrison
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226318001
Total Pages : 675 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Globalization and Poverty written by Ann Harrison and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 675 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past two decades, the percentage of the world’s population living on less than a dollar a day has been cut in half. How much of that improvement is because of—or in spite of—globalization? While anti-globalization activists mount loud critiques and the media report breathlessly on globalization’s perils and promises, economists have largely remained silent, in part because of an entrenched institutional divide between those who study poverty and those who study trade and finance. Globalization and Poverty bridges that gap, bringing together experts on both international trade and poverty to provide a detailed view of the effects of globalization on the poor in developing nations, answering such questions as: Do lower import tariffs improve the lives of the poor? Has increased financial integration led to more or less poverty? How have the poor fared during various currency crises? Does food aid hurt or help the poor? Poverty, the contributors show here, has been used as a popular and convenient catchphrase by parties on both sides of the globalization debate to further their respective arguments. Globalization and Poverty provides the more nuanced understanding necessary to move that debate beyond the slogans.

Energy Subsidy Reform

Author : Mr.Benedict J. Clements
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
ISBN 13 : 1484339169
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (843 download)

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Book Synopsis Energy Subsidy Reform by : Mr.Benedict J. Clements

Download or read book Energy Subsidy Reform written by Mr.Benedict J. Clements and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Energy subsidies are aimed at protecting consumers, however, subsidies aggravate fiscal imbalances, crowd out priority public spending, and depress private investment, including in the energy sector. This book provides the most comprehensive estimates of energy subsidies currently available for 176 countries and an analysis of “how to do” energy subsidy reform, drawing on insights from 22 country case studies undertaken by the IMF staff and analyses carried out by other institutions.

Energy Prices, Fuel Poverty and Ofgem

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Business and Enterprise Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780215523259
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (232 download)

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Book Synopsis Energy Prices, Fuel Poverty and Ofgem by : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Business and Enterprise Committee

Download or read book Energy Prices, Fuel Poverty and Ofgem written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Business and Enterprise Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2008 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A report from the 'Business and Enterprise Committee' that inquires into the effect of the 'Big 6' energy companies - which include Npower, Centrica, EDF Energy, Scottish Power, and Scottish and Southern Energy - all raising their prices between January and April 2008. It aims to feed into a separate inquiry being carried out by Ofgem.

The Distributional Implications of the Impact of Fuel Price Increases on Inflation

Author : Mr. Kangni R Kpodar
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
ISBN 13 : 1616356154
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (163 download)

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Book Synopsis The Distributional Implications of the Impact of Fuel Price Increases on Inflation by : Mr. Kangni R Kpodar

Download or read book The Distributional Implications of the Impact of Fuel Price Increases on Inflation written by Mr. Kangni R Kpodar and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2021-11-12 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper investigates the response of consumer price inflation to changes in domestic fuel prices, looking at the different categories of the overall consumer price index (CPI). We then combine household survey data with the CPI components to construct a CPI index for the poorest and richest income quintiles with the view to assess the distributional impact of the pass-through. To undertake this analysis, the paper provides an update to the Global Monthly Retail Fuel Price Database, expanding the product coverage to premium and regular fuels, the time dimension to December 2020, and the sample to 190 countries. Three key findings stand out. First, the response of inflation to gasoline price shocks is smaller, but more persistent and broad-based in developing economies than in advanced economies. Second, we show that past studies using crude oil prices instead of retail fuel prices to estimate the pass-through to inflation significantly underestimate it. Third, while the purchasing power of all households declines as fuel prices increase, the distributional impact is progressive. But the progressivity phases out within 6 months after the shock in advanced economies, whereas it persists beyond a year in developing countries.

Cutting the Cost of Keeping Warm

Author : Great Britain: Department of Energy and Climate Change
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781474115513
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (155 download)

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Download or read book Cutting the Cost of Keeping Warm written by Great Britain: Department of Energy and Climate Change and published by . This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Reinventing Fire

Author : Amory Lovins
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603583726
Total Pages : 4 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Reinventing Fire written by Amory Lovins and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-15 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine fuel without fear. No climate change. No oil spills, no dead coalminers, no dirty air, no devastated lands, no lost wildlife. No energy poverty. No oil-fed wars, tyrannies, or terrorists. No leaking nuclear wastes or spreading nuclear weapons. Nothing to run out. Nothing to cut off. Nothing to worry about. Just energy abundance, benign and affordable, for all, forever. That richer, fairer, cooler, safer world is possible, practical, even profitable-because saving and replacing fossil fuels now works better and costs no more than buying and burning them. Reinventing Fire shows how business-motivated by profit, supported by civil society, sped by smart policy-can get the US completely off oil and coal by 2050, and later beyond natural gas as well. Authored by a world leader on energy and innovation, the book maps a robust path for integrating real, here-and-now, comprehensive energy solutions in four industries-transportation, buildings, electricity, and manufacturing-melding radically efficient energy use with reliable, secure, renewable energy supplies.Popular in tone and rooted in applied hope, Reinventing Fire shows how smart businesses are creating a potent, global, market-driven, and explosively growing movement to defossilize fuels. It points readers to trillions in savings over the next 40 years, and trillions more in new business opportunities.Whether you care most about national security, or jobs and competitive advantage, or climate and environment, this major contribution by world leaders in energy innovation offers startling innovations will support your values, inspire your support, and transform your sense of possibility.Pragmatic citizens today are more interested in outcomes than motives. Reinventing Fire answers this trans-ideological call. Whether you care most about national security, or jobs and competitive advantage, or climate and environment, its startling innovations will support your values, inspire your support, and transform your sense of possibility.

The Future of Domestic Capital Markets in Developing Countries

Author : Robert E. Litan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780815796107
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (961 download)

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Download or read book The Future of Domestic Capital Markets in Developing Countries written by Robert E. Litan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2003-09-05 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Future of Domestic Capital Markets in Developing Countries addresses the challenges that countries face as they develop and strengthen capital markets. Based on input from the world's most prominent capital market experts and leading policymakers in developing countries, this volume represents the latest thinking in capital market development. It captures the views of a global gathering of experts, with perspectives from developing and developed countries, from all regions of the world, from the public and private sector. This volume should be of interest to senior financial sector policymakers from developed and developing countries in securities and exchange commissions, regulators, central banks, ministries of finance, and monetary authorities; private sector executives in stock exchanges, bond markets, venture capital markets, and investment funds; and researchers and academicians with an interest in capital market development in emerging markets. What are the key factors threatening the development and survival of stock exchanges in developing countries? What domestic strategies are needed to protect the future of local markets? Should exchanges consider linkages or alliances? Merging with, or buying up, other exchanges? Demutualization? The volume provides practical guidance on strategies such as nurturing issuers, improving rules and institutions, addressing regulatory challenges, and sequencing reforms. The contributors address a variety of country experiences, and suggest steps that policymakers and practitioners in emerging markets can take to promote an orderly transition toward efficient, well-regulated, and accessible capital markets. Contributors include Reena Aggarwal (Georgetown University), Alexander S. Berg (World Bank), Alan Cameron (Sydney Futures Exchange), Olivier Fremond (PSACG), Amar Gill (Credit Lyonnais Securities Asia), Gerd Hausler (IMF), Jack Glen (International Finance Corporation), Peter Blair Henry (Stanf

Shock Waves

Author : Stephane Hallegatte
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 1464806748
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (648 download)

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Download or read book Shock Waves written by Stephane Hallegatte and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2015-11-23 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ending poverty and stabilizing climate change will be two unprecedented global achievements and two major steps toward sustainable development. But the two objectives cannot be considered in isolation: they need to be jointly tackled through an integrated strategy. This report brings together those two objectives and explores how they can more easily be achieved if considered together. It examines the potential impact of climate change and climate policies on poverty reduction. It also provides guidance on how to create a “win-win†? situation so that climate change policies contribute to poverty reduction and poverty-reduction policies contribute to climate change mitigation and resilience building. The key finding of the report is that climate change represents a significant obstacle to the sustained eradication of poverty, but future impacts on poverty are determined by policy choices: rapid, inclusive, and climate-informed development can prevent most short-term impacts whereas immediate pro-poor, emissions-reduction policies can drastically limit long-term ones.

Consumer Engagement with Energy Markets

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Energy and Climate Change Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780215052193
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (521 download)

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Book Synopsis Consumer Engagement with Energy Markets by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Energy and Climate Change Committee

Download or read book Consumer Engagement with Energy Markets written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Energy and Climate Change Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2012-12-20 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consumer engagement with the energy market is low. The lack of engagement is linked to low levels of competition and a high proportion of customers who are unlikely or unwilling to switch energy supplier. With little incentive for suppliers to offer consumers a better deal, some customers are getting worse deals than others, which reduces consumer trust. Ofgem hopes to increase both engagement and competition by simplifying tariffs and making it easier to switch. The Government has pledged to require providers to give customers the cheapest tariff. The Committee suggests that indicators should be established to measure the success of these proposed reforms. Also, greater transparency is needed in respect of energy company profits and prices, to restore consumer confidence and streamlining the various sources of information on energy issues would also promote consumer trust. The Government's plans lack detail on how consumer access to information about energy efficiency will be increased. By highlighting these issues, the Committee hopes to kickstart a national conversation about the cost to consumers of investing in the provision of secure, clean and affordable energy supplies for the future. For oral and written evidence, see Volume 2 (ISBN 9780215052186)

HC 830 - Fuelling the Debate: Committee Successes and Future Challenges

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Energy and Climate Change Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 0215084039
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book HC 830 - Fuelling the Debate: Committee Successes and Future Challenges written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Energy and Climate Change Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2015-03-12 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Climate Change Act 2008 committed the UK to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by at least 80 percent by 2050. The 2010-2015 Parliament has been a defining period for energy and climate change policy. Three Energy Acts set the policy framework to help the UK achieve its goal. Each Act was designed to support new forms of energy generation, promote energy efficiency and protect consumers. These ambitious pieces of legislation have set the benchmark against which the progress towards providing a secure, clean and affordable energy supply will be judged. The Energy and Climate Change Committee plays a central role in scrutinising and improving the Government's policy and legislation. In section two of this report, the Committee provides a quantitative overview of the work it has undertaken in this Parliament. In section three, the Committee looks in more detail at three case studies - electricity market reform, competition in the energy market and shale gas - each of which highlights the key role the Committee has played in holding the Government to account and improving policy and legislation. Finally, in section four the Committee sets out our future vision for the UK energy system, based on the views and evidence provided by the wide range of stakeholders that it works with. The Committee also explores the challenges which will need to be overcome in the next Parliament if the UK is to achieve its ambitious long-term climate and energy goals.

Projected Costs of Generating Electricity

Author : OECD Nuclear Energy Agency
Publisher : Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Projected Costs of Generating Electricity written by OECD Nuclear Energy Agency and published by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. This book was released on 1998 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the fifth study in a series on the future costs of generating electricity. It reviews cost estimates for power plants using nuclear, coal, gas and renewable energy sources.

The Poverty of Nations

Author : Barry Asmus
Publisher : Crossway
ISBN 13 : 143353911X
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (335 download)

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Download or read book The Poverty of Nations written by Barry Asmus and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2013 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We can win the fight against global poverty. Combining penetrating economic analysis with insightful theological reflection, this book sketches a comprehensive plan for increasing wealth and protecting stability at a national level.

Minimizing Energy Consumption, Energy Poverty and Global and Local Climate Change in the Built Environment: Innovating to Zero

Author : Matthaios Santamouris
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0128114185
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (281 download)

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Download or read book Minimizing Energy Consumption, Energy Poverty and Global and Local Climate Change in the Built Environment: Innovating to Zero written by Matthaios Santamouris and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Minimizing Energy Consumption, Energy Poverty and Global and Local Climate Change in the Built Environment: Innovating to Zero analyzes three major issues of the built environment, including the political, economic and technical contexts, the impacts of global and local climate change, and the technical and social characteristics of energy poverty. In addition, the book addresses the causes and reasons for the magnitude and characteristics of the built environment’s energy consumption. Users will find a fresh view of energy consumption in the built environment, especially in relation to energy poverty and climate change from the ZERO energy world perspective. Presents and analyzes over twenty specific linkages and causalities between energy consumption, climate change and energy poverty Describes the state-of-the-art regarding the energy consumption of buildings in Europe and recent trends and characteristics Explores how can we transform problems into opportunities Examines how we can increase the added value of technological, economic and social interventions to generate wealth and offer employment opportunities

HC 386 - Energy Network Costs: Transparent and Fair?

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Energy and Climate Change Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 0215081609
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (15 download)

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Book Synopsis HC 386 - Energy Network Costs: Transparent and Fair? by : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Energy and Climate Change Committee

Download or read book HC 386 - Energy Network Costs: Transparent and Fair? written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Energy and Climate Change Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2015 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Network costs (which cover the transmission and distribution of gas and electricity from power stations to households and industry) are a very significant component of household and industrial energy bills. Ofgem has created a new regulatory framework (RIIO) that was designed to ensure that costs were competitive and that profits weren't excessive, but there is clear evidence that network companies are making higher profits than expected. This suggests that the targets and incentives set by Ofgem are too low, barriers to market entry are high and that Ofgem needs to monitor RIIO more effectively and to equip RIIO with stronger, corrective measures. Ofgem has not yet created the conditions for the market to thrive and provide consumers with best value for money. In the short-term, market conditions can be improved if: (i) an interim independent audit of price controls is conducted; (ii) the 40-day notification period for price changes is increased to 15 months; and (iii) stronger, corrective measures are applied to companies that have received incentive payments for reducing leakages when such reductions have not taken place.