Cette note du Conseil d'analyse économique expose les termes de l’arbitrage que doit affronter la France entre la préservation d’un élément significatif de sa compétitivité à court terme (le coût relativement faible de son énergie en particulier électrique) et la nécessaire transformation de ses avantages comparatifs à moyen-long terme (sous l’effet d’une vérité des...
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Thématique Energie
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Énergie et compétitivité
Gas-to-Liquid – A viable alternative to oil-derived transport fuels?
A number of high-profile projects and a wave of recent investments have focused attention on the global gas-to-liquid (GTL) industry, suggesting a latent potential for gas-to-liquid fuels to usher in a new conceptualization of oil product markets. The clean-burning, high-quality characteristics of GTL diesel fuels lend support to this outlook, seemingly offering a viable...
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Moving towards low carbon mobility
The transport sector has been singularly unsuccessful in becoming low carbon and less resource intensive. This book takes an innovative and holistic social, cultural and behavioural perspective, as well as covering the more conventional economic and technological dimensions, to provide a more complete understanding of the mobility and transport system and its progress towards...
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Smart grid: l’Europe a investi presque 2 milliards en 2012
L’Union européenne veut s’assurer le leadership dans le secteur technologique des smart grids...
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Offshore gas in East Mediterranean: from myth to reality
The wave of deep offshore and unconventional gas and oil exploration projects, rendered economically feasible by relatively high prices and new technologies, has reached the shores of the Mediterranean. Levantine countries, including Cyprus, Israel, Palestinian Territories, Lebanon, Syria, have new offshore gas potentials...
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Quelle place pour l’énergie éolienne dans la transition énergétique ?
Une analyse des enjeux de la filière industrielle de l’éolien en matière d’innovation, de compétitivité et d’emploi
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US shale gas development: What led to the boom?
In this issue brief, we provide an overview of the economic, policy, and technology history of shale gas development in the United States to ascertain what led to the shale gas boom...
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Les voies de la réforme du secteur gazier russe
Le secteur gazier russe est aujourd’hui l’objet d’évolutions en profondeur même s’il reste dominé par la puissante société Gazprom, détenue par l’Etat. Ces évolutions se caractérisent principalement par une restructuration de Gazprom, des hausses conséquentes de prix et surtout l’introduction de formes concurrentielles qui tendent à normer le comportement de Gazprom...
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Les politiques d’efficacité énergétique en Chine, Inde, Indonésie, Thaïlande et Vietnam
Ce rapport décrit la demande actuelle en énergie finale dans ces pays ainsi que ses tendances récentes. Il détaille aussi les politiques et mesures qui y sont mises en place en matière d’efficacité énergétique au niveau de la demande finale.
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Rethinking the energy-efficiency gap: Producers, intermediaries, and innovation
This paper focuses on the question: How could supplier strategy issues help explain the observed "energy efficiency gap" between the privately optimal energy efficiency of goods and services and the actual energy efficiency of goods and services?
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Conceptualizing EU energy security through an EU constitutional law perspective
The principal aim of this article is to provide the reader with an overview of the key legal considerations at play in relation to European Union (EU) energy security...
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Global trends in Electricity Transmission System Operation: Where does the future lie?
Unbundling of the Electricity Supply Industry (ESI) has resulted in establishment of different arrangements of electricity transmission system operation. While there is a significant move away from the traditional vertically integrated utility arrangement, it remains to be seen which one arrangement will evolve as a global winner. (© EPRG)
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EU gas supply security: Unfinished business
Four years after the gas supply crisis of January 2009, this paper looks at the market and policy changes that have changed the European gas situation, and their implications in terms of security of supply. Several positive developments are identified, including the byapssing of Ukraine by Gazprom-sponsored pipelines; the acceleration of import diversification in...
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