This OIES paper investigates the impacts of gasoline and diesel pricing reforms on downstream investment in the BRICs. Of the BRICs, India and China (the two countries that are the largest net importers of oil) have accounted for the largest downstream investments and expansions in refining capacity…
Wind power in China has experienced significant growth since the beginning of this century. Total installed capacity has increased almost 300 fold – from 346 MW in 2000 to 91,413 MW in 2013. This rapid development however has created new set of challenges. In particular, wind power has not been fully integrated into the electricity system as a whole, as the growth of wind generation capacity has not been matched by a corresponding growth in transmission capacity…
The implications of Russia’s gas contracts with China and the United States’ export of gas for Australia’s energy security in the Asian region…
The aim of the proposed paper is to analyze key policy and market developments in the Chinese coal market and their possible impact on global coal trade.
The Mekong Basin is home to some 70 million people, for whom this great river is a source of livelihoods, the basis for their ecosystems and a foundation of their economies. But the Mekong is also currently undergoing enormous social, economic, and ecological change of which hydropower development is a significant driver. This book provides a basin-wide analysis of political, socio-economic and environmental perspectives of hydropower development in the Mekong Basin…
This report is the first in a series of country reports that IRENA has released to supplement the range of global and sector-specific reports released since early 2014 as part of REmap 2030.
Cheap, abundant and easy to transport and store, coal has been produced and consumed to meet people’s energy needs. The last decade’s growth in global coal use has been driven mainly by developing economies like China, whose phenomenal economic growth has been powered by coal-fired
electricity and promoted by the export of manufactured goods…
An increasing block tariff (IBT) has been implemented nationwide in the residential sector in China since July 2012 as part of a process towards liberalizing electricity prices. However, knowledge about IBT design is still limited, particularly how to determine the electricity volume for the first block of an IBT scheme. Assuming the first block should be set based on some measure of electricity poverty, we attempt to model household electricity demand such that the range of basic needs can be established.
This paper is motivated to theoretically examine China’s potential transition from its energy-intensive status quo to an innovation-oriented growth prospect..
This OIES paper by Michael Chen describes, within the context of China’s continued rapid gas sector development, the evolution and current status of Chinese gas price reform, which establishes city gate benchmark prices, most notably at Shanghai…
Building on previous stakeholder consultations from 2006 to 2010, we conduct a financial analysis for a generic CCS power plant in China….
A central debate in the study of energy geopolitics concerns the relative importance of the Sino-Russian energy alliance and the lack of the long awaited deal in natural gas. The deadlock in natural gas is all the more puzzling when contrasted to the two countries’ flourishing ties in oil…
This paper addresses three examples, including Chinese investments in Venezuela’s oil sector and a Costa Rican oil refinery, and Chinese investment in and purchases of Brazilian soybeans…
This paper will first present the profile of Chinese GHG emissions and investigate the drivers of the rapid carbon emissions growth. We will then describe China’s engagement in international climate negotiations, how it committed to curb CO2 emissions, as well as policies and measures that China put in place to achieve mandatory energy and climate goals domestically…
New Economics Papers Energy Economics (REPEC)
