The economics of transmission constraints on wind farms: some evidence from South Australia [PDF]
The impacts of transmission congestion and network investment on the development of the Australian wind energy industry have received growing attention from wind farm developers as well as relevant policy stakeholders such as the Australian Energy Market
Boerema, Nicholas, MacGill, Iain
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Integrating Wind Power in Electricity Grids: An Economic Analysis [PDF]
As a renewable energy source, wind power is gaining popularity as a favoured alternative to fossil fuel, nuclear and hydro power generation. In Europe, countries are required to achieve 15% of their energy consumption from wind by 2010 as the EU strives ...
G. Cornelis van Kooten +2 more
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Rethinking evolution, entropy and economics: A triadic conceptual framework for the maximum entropy principle as applied to the growth of knowledge [PDF]
Recently, the maximum entropy principle has been applied to explain the evolution of complex non-equilibrium systems, such as the Earth system. I argue that it can also be fruitfully deployed to reconsider the classical treatment of entropy in economics ...
Herrmann-Pillath, Carsten
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Mozambique's infrastructure : a continental perspective [PDF]
In the last 10 years, Mozambique's economy has grown steadily at an impressive rate of 7.7 percent per year, driven by the service sector, light industry, and agriculture.
Briceno-Garmendia, Cecilia +1 more
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Angola's infrastructure : a continental perspective [PDF]
Infrastructure made a net contribution of around 1 percentage point to Angola's improved per capita growth performance in recent years, despite unreliable power supplies and poor roads, which each holding back growth by 0.2 percentage points. Raising the
Foster, Vivien, Pushak, Nataliya
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The effect of land costs on the economic and sustainability performance of solar photovoltaics in China. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S AChen S +5 more
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The whys and why nots of export taxation [PDF]
The authors review the arguments for taxing imports, considering two cases: one in which a country has market power in the export commodity, and one in which it does not.
Devarajan, Shantayanan +3 more
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Transmission lowers US generation costs, but generator incentives are not aligned. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S AHam D, Kay O, Hausman C.
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The economics of renewable energy expansion in rural Sub-Saharan Africa [PDF]
Accelerating development in Sub-Saharan Africa will require massive expansion of access to electricity -- currently reaching only about one-third of households.
Deichmann, Uwe +3 more
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Next-gen geothermal could bring clean power to much more of the planet. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S ABattersby S.
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