Overview

The New Energy Paradigm provides an overview of the current energy policy debate, contextualized by the oil shock from 2000, and considers how the trends in international energy markets impact on security of supply and climate change. It includes a discussion of market design, looks at carbon and oil markets, and considers best practice for effective policy design.

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Author:   Dieter Helm (Fellow in Economics, New College, Oxford)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.50cm , Height: 3.40cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   0.953kg
ISBN:  

9780199229703

ISBN 10:   0199229708
Pages:   544
Publication Date:   26 April 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Dieter Helm: Introduction Part 1: Concepts 1: Dieter Helm: The New Energy Paradigm 2: John Scott and Gareth Evans: Electricity Networks: The Innovation Supply Chain 3: Dieter Helm and Cameron Hepburn: Carbon Contracts 4: Paul Joskow: Competitive Electricity Markets and Investment in New Generating Capacity Part 2: Oil and Gas 5: Paul Stevens: Oil Markets and the Future 6: Bassam Fattouh: OPEC Pricing Power: The Need for a New Perspective 7: Alexander Kemp and Linda Stephen: UK Oil and Gas Depletion Policy with Growing Import Dependence 8: Anouk Honoré and Jonathan Stern: A Constrained Future for Gas in Europe? Part 3: Electricity 9: Richard Green: Electricity and Markets 10: Karsten Neuhoff: Large-scale Deployment of Renewables 11: Gert Brunekreeft and Tanga McDaniel: Policy Uncertainty and Supply Adequacy in Electric Power Markets 12: Catherine Waddams Price: The Effect of Liberalizing UK Retail Energy Markets on Consumers 13: Malcolm Grimston: Nuclear Energy Part 4: International Policy 14: Fatih Birol: The Investment Implications of Global Energy Trends 15: Scott Barrett: Climate Change Negotiations: Past and Future 16: Dieter Helm: European Energy Policy: Securing Supplies and Meeting the Challenge of Climate Change

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Anyone professionally concerned with energy policies markets and future trends will find the book useful...[..] For anyone interested in energy policies, markets and the issues to be faced in the coming decades, this book will form a valuable information resource and a thought-provoking read. * Institute of Physics *

Anyone professionally concerned with energy policies markets and future trends will find the book useful...[..] For anyone interested in energy policies, markets and the issues to be faced in the coming decades, this book will form a valuable information resource and a thought-provoking read. Institute of Physics

Author Information

Dieter Helm is an economist specialising in utilities, infrastructure, regulation and the environment, and concentrates on the energy, water and transport sectors in Britain and Europe. He holds a number of other advisory board appointments, including the Prime Minister's Council of Science and Technology, the Defra Academic Panel (Chair), and the DTI Sustainable Energy Panel Advisory Board. He is associate editor of the Oxford Review of Economic Policy. His career to date has spanned academia, public policy and business. He founded Oxera in 1982, was a member of the DTI's Energy Advisory Panel from 1993 to 2003, and has published extensively on economic topics. He recently completed a major study of British Energy policy since 1979, Energy, The State and the Market, published by Oxford University Press.

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