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The British Electricity Experiment

Author : John Surrey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134050143
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book The British Electricity Experiment written by John Surrey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1990, energy in the UK underwent a unique and fundamental transformation, with the privatization of the electricity supply industry. This is the first book to fully assess the experiment. It first explains how – and why – the British electricity supply industry was privatized. It then identifies the subsequent changes in electricity prices, profits, employment, investment, nuclear power and renewable, and the extent to which each of these was due solely to privatization or to other factors, or could have come about by reform of the previous model, rather than privatization. Finally, the authors analyse the key unresolved issues of regulation, introducing competition into the domestic energy market in 1998, supply security, and other long-term strategic considerations. Throughout, the distinguish between the uniquely British elements of the experience and those which can be drawn upon by other countries embarking upon similar reforms. Today, governments throughout the world are looking to the UK's experience as a potential prototype for the restructure of their own electricity supply industries. For them, and for electricity utilities, fuel and power plant suppliers, regulation authorities, financial analysts, international agencies, journalists and academics alike, this thorough and pragmatic study will be essential reading. 'This is likely to become the definitive book on the first six years of the great British electricity experiment' Walt Patterson The British Electricity Experiment is the result of a detailed study undertaken by the Energy Programme at the science Policy Research unit (SPRU). Professor John Surrey was head of SPR's Energy Programme between 1969 and 1986. He has worked with the central Electricity Generating Board, as a government Economic Adviser, and as a Specialist Adviser to numerous House of Commons Select Committee inquiries on energy matters. Originally published in 1996

Our Biggest Experiment

Author : Alice Bell
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1640094342
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Our Biggest Experiment written by Alice Bell and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traversing science, politics, and technology, Our Biggest Experiment shines a spotlight on the little-known scientists who sounded the alarm to reveal the history behind the defining story of our age: the climate crisis. Our understanding of the Earth's fluctuating environment is an extraordinary story of human perception and scientific endeavor. It also began much earlier than we might think. In Our Biggest Experiment, Alice Bell takes us back to climate change science's earliest steps in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, through the point when concern started to rise in the 1950s and right up to today, where the “debate” is over and the world is finally starting to face up to the reality that things are going to get a lot hotter, a lot drier (in some places), and a lot wetter (in others), with catastrophic consequences for most of Earth's biomes. Our Biggest Experiment recounts how the world became addicted to fossil fuels, how we discovered that electricity could be a savior, and how renewable energy is far from a twentieth-century discovery. Bell cuts through complicated jargon and jumbles of numbers to show how we're getting to grips with what is now the defining issue of our time. The message she relays is ultimately hopeful; harnessing the ingenuity and intelligence that has driven the history of climate change research can result in a more sustainable and bearable future for humanity.

The British Electricity Experiment

Author : John Surrey
Publisher : Earthscan
ISBN 13 : 9781853833700
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (337 download)

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Download or read book The British Electricity Experiment written by John Surrey and published by Earthscan. This book was released on 1996 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1991 energy in the UK underwent a unique and fundamental transformation, with the privatisation of the electricity supply industry. This is the first book to fully assess the experiment. It first explains how - and why - the British electricity supply industry was privatised. It then identifies the subsequent changes in electricity prices, profits, employment, investment, nuclear power and renewables, and the extent to which each of these was due solely to privatisation or to other factors, or could have been achieved by reform of the previous model, rather than privatisation. Finally, the book analyses the key unresolved issues of regulation, introducing competition into the domestic energy market in 1998, supply security, and other long-term strategic considerations. Throughout, it distinguishes between the uniquely British elements of the experience and those which can be drawn upon by other countries embarking upon similar reforms. Today, governments throughout the world are looking to the UK's experience as a potential prototype for the restructure of their own electricity supply industries. For them, and for electricity utilities, fuel and power plant suppliers, regulation authorities, financial analysts, international agencies, journalists and academics alike, this thorough and pragmatic study will be essential reading.

Experiments and Observations on Electricity, Made at Philadelphia in America

Author : Benjamin Franklin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Experiments and Observations on Electricity, Made at Philadelphia in America written by Benjamin Franklin and published by . This book was released on 1751 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Privatization

Author : George K. Yarrow
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415143257
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book Privatization written by George K. Yarrow and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1996 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Europe's Nuclear Power Experiment

Author : E. N. Shaw
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Europe's Nuclear Power Experiment written by E. N. Shaw and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Renewable Electricity Policies

Author : Frédéric Varone
Publisher : Presses univ. de Louvain
ISBN 13 : 9782930344560
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (445 download)

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Book Synopsis Renewable Electricity Policies by : Frédéric Varone

Download or read book Renewable Electricity Policies written by Frédéric Varone and published by Presses univ. de Louvain. This book was released on 2004 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book compares the renewable electricity policies adopted before and after the liberalisation of the electricity market in Belgium, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. It is aimed at public actors and private operators.

Auctions in the Electricity Market

Author : Stefan Schöne
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540853650
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Auctions in the Electricity Market written by Stefan Schöne and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-01-06 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Electricity is an essential commodity traded at power exchanges. Its price is very volatile within a day and over the year. This raises questions about the efficiency of the trading rules. The author develops a non-cooperative auction model analyzing the bidding behavior of producers at power exchanges. Producers are limited by the production capacity of their power plants. Production costs are affiliated. This allows for independence or positive correlation. The author analyzes and compares a uniform-price, a discriminatory, and a generalized second-price auction. Optimal bids, cost efficiency, profits, and consumer prices are examined. A simple probability density function of affiliated production costs is given and used for examples. Numerical results are presented. The results of the analysis can help improving the bidding strategies of producers, selecting the best auction type at power exchanges or detecting price manipulations.

Remaking the Urban Social Contract

Author : Michael A. Pagano
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252099133
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Remaking the Urban Social Contract written by Michael A. Pagano and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new volume draws from provocative discussions on the urban social contract among policy makers, researchers, public intellectuals, and citizens at the 2015 UIC Urban Forum. Michael A. Pagano presents papers that emphasize political agreements, disagreements, challenges, and controversies on health, energy, and environmental policies. Authors explore the substantive and philosophical changes in the urban social contract and offer proposals for remaking it in the new century. Topics range from big-picture analyses to specifics covering areas like public services, the smart cities movement, and greening strategies. Contributors: Alba Alexander, Megan Houston, Dennis R. Judd, Cynthia Klein-Banai, William C. Kling, Howard A. Learner, David A. McDonald, David C. Perry, Emily Stiehl, Anthony Townsend, Natalia Villamizar-Duarte, and Moira Zellner.

Industrial Enterprise and European Integration

Author : Jack Ernest Shalom Hayward
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780198279723
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (797 download)

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Book Synopsis Industrial Enterprise and European Integration by : Jack Ernest Shalom Hayward

Download or read book Industrial Enterprise and European Integration written by Jack Ernest Shalom Hayward and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1995 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National champions are firms promoted by governments to defend the national interest in the international market. This text looks at how European national champions have fared under the pressure of European integration and in an increasingly competitive wo

From Regulation to Competition: New frontiers in electricity markets

Author : Michael A. Einhorn
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401113688
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (11 download)

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Book Synopsis From Regulation to Competition: New frontiers in electricity markets by : Michael A. Einhorn

Download or read book From Regulation to Competition: New frontiers in electricity markets written by Michael A. Einhorn and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Electric utilities throughout the world continue to face new challenges involving ownership, market structure, and regulation. There are three related issues at hand. First, should ownership be private or public? Second, what operations should be integrated and where is competition feasible? Third, where is regulation necessary and can it be made more efficient? This volume bears directly upon these concerns. The book contains two sections. The first six articles discuss the British electricity experiment that has privatized and disintegrated the nation's generation, transmission, and distribution companies, introduced market competition for power purchases, and implemented incentive regulation for monopolized transmission and distribution grids. The remaining articles focus on the theater in which significant microeconomic issues will continue to emerge, most immediately in the U.K. and U.S.A. -- the coordination and pricing of transmission.

Global Economic Crisis and Local Economic Development

Author : Jason Begley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317246683
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Global Economic Crisis and Local Economic Development written by Jason Begley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a collaborative investigation of the policies and practices which have redeveloped local and national economies in the aftermath of the global economic crisis which erupted in 2008. It explores 'localised' models of economic development, including problems of diversity and balance and the role of firms, industries and clusters, alongside comparative studies of policy responses to the crisis at local, regional and national levels Global Economic Crisis and Local Economic Development seeks routes for economic development in a post-crisis world. The roles of innovation, entrepreneurship, knowledge infrastructures, public policies, business strategies and responses, as well as global contexts and positioning are explored as investigative themes which run throughout the collection as a whole. This text brings together a range of international disciplinary experts from economics, geography, history, business and management, politics and sociology. Its coverage is comparative and global, with contributions focusing on the U.S., Japan, China, and India, as well as European contexts and cases. This book is of value both for the intrinsic quality of its individual studies and for the contrasts and comparisons enabled by the collection when viewed as a whole. It has an accessible but rigorous style, making it ideal for a range of users including academics, researchers and students who study economic development and regional development.

Innovation for Sustainable Electricity Systems

Author : Barbara Praetorius
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3790820768
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Innovation for Sustainable Electricity Systems written by Barbara Praetorius and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovation is key to achieving a sustainable electricity system. New technologies and organizational changes can bring about more sustainable, climate-friendly electricity structures. Yet the dynamics of innovation are complex, and difficult to shape. This book, written by experts in the field, sets out to explore the dynamics, the drivers and the setting of innovation processes. Case studies on micro cogeneration, carbon capture and storage, consumer feedback, network regulation and emissions trading provide insights into innovation dynamics in the electricity system and are analyzed to derive strategic implications for innovation policies. A special focus is placed on drivers and barriers of change, and their consequences for shaping the innovation process. This book is an indispensable source of information for researchers and decision makers in energy and climate change as well as for lecturers and students interested in the principles and ramifications of electricity innovation dynamics.

The Electrical Journal

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Electrical Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Political Economy of Privatization

Author : Thomas Clarke
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134799012
Total Pages : 651 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book The Political Economy of Privatization written by Thomas Clarke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-17 with total page 651 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Political Economy of Privatization the authors assess the success of privatization. The work is an international study of the extensive privatization, and the pressure towards privatization, in different parts of the world. The book includes: * A study of the relationship between ownership and performance; * An assessment of the importance of market structure and regulation; * A discussion of privatization strategies within the public sector; * Individual country case-studies, looking at the experience of different countries engaged in the contrasting approaches to privatization. * A critical assessment of the much vaunted relationship between ownership and efficiency.

New Challenges in Energy Security

Author : C. Mitchell
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137298855
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book New Challenges in Energy Security written by C. Mitchell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-08-29 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Researchers and practitioners explore the effect of evolving global economic and political powers on energy security within the UK and puts forward practical options for moving towards a more energy secure system over both the short and long terms.

L'Ère électrique - The Electric Age

Author : Olivier Asselin
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
ISBN 13 : 2760319482
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book L'Ère électrique - The Electric Age written by Olivier Asselin and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 2011-09-17 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La découverte scientifique et la maîtrise de l'électricité ont bouleversé notre société au même titre que l'invention de l'écriture alphabétique durant l'Antiquité et de l'imprimerie à caractères mobiles au XVe siècle. Il ne s'agit pas seulement d'un phénomène naturel mis au service de l'homme par la science, mais d'un élément central de l'épistémè moderne : l'électricité a inspiré des écrivains et des artistes, a servi de force d'impulsion au monde de l'industrie et de l'innovation et a redéfini les comportements sociaux. En explorant l'incidence de l'électricité sur le savoir, les pratiques sociales, les médias, la vie sociale et les expériences personnelles, cet ouvrage tente d'en saisir les aspects techniques et culturels dans toute leur complexité. -- The scientific discovery and mastery of electricity created as many important changes in modern society as did the invention of alphabetical writing in antiquity and movable type in the fifteenth century. It is more than a natural phenomenon that science has harnessed for human use; it is a central feature of the modern episteme. It has inspired writers and artists, propelled industry and innovation, and reshaped human social behaviour. Looking at a variety of topics including film, politics, and contemporary art, this volume explores the impact of electricity on knowledge, social practices, media, community life, and subjective experience.