Handbook of Energy Economics and Policy
Fundamentals and Applications for Engineers and Energy Planners
- 1st Edition - May 1, 2021
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editors: Alessandro Rubino, Alessandro Sapio, Massimo La Scala
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 4 7 1 2 - 2
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 4 7 1 3 - 9
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Request a sales quoteHandbook of Energy Economics and Policy: Fundamentals and Applications for Engineers and Energy Planners presents energy engineers and managers with analytical skills and concepts that enable them to apply simple economic logic to understand the interrelations between energy technologies, economics, regulation and governance of the industry. Sections cover the origins, types and measurement of energy sources, transportation networks, and regulatory and policy issues on electricity and gas at a global level, new economic and policy issues, including innovation processes in the energy industry and economic and policy implications. Final sections cover state-of-the-art methods for modeling and predicting the dynamics of energy systems.
Its unique approach and learning path makes this book an ideal resource for energy engineering practitioners and researchers working to design, develop, plan or deploy energy systems. Energy planners and policymakers will also find this to be a solid foundation on which to base decisions.
- Presents key-concepts and their interrelation with energy technologies and systems in a clear way for ready application during planning and deployment of energy technologies and systems
- Includes global case studies covering a wide array of energy sources and regulatory models
- Explores methodologies for modeling and forecasting the impacts of energy technologies and systems, as well as their costs and possible business models
energy engineering researchers, practitioners and graduate students. Professors of energy economics and policy in energy engineering-related graduate courses. Instructors in industry courses. Energy planners and policy makers
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- About the editors
- Preface
- Part 1. Fundamentals of the energy industry
- Chapter 1. The energy system
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Primary energy sources
- 3. Final energy demand
- 4. Conclusion
- Chapter 2. Structural analysis of energy demand
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Background: structural analysis on the timing of energy demand
- 3. Theories
- 4. Applications
- 5. Conclusions
- Exam questions
- Chapter 3. Energy supply
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Theory of supply
- 3. Supply fundamentals
- 4. Financing energy supply
- 5. Security of supply
- 6. Case study: gas supply options for Russian independent (non-Gazprom) gas producer
- Chapter 4. Energy transportation: gas
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The value chain of natural gas
- 3. Regulation of the natural gas industry
- 4. Natural gas hubs
- 5. Exam questions
- Chapter 5. Energy transportation: electricity
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Background
- 3. Theory
- 4. Applications
- 5. Conclusions
- 6. Questions
- Chapter 6. Wholesale markets – regulation of electricity and gas industry
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Liberalisation process: transforming the energy market landscape
- 3. Electricity and natural gas wholesale markets
- 4. Conclusions
- 5. Exam or assignment questions
- Chapter 7. Carbon market analysis and risk management
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Carbon markets
- 3. A model of carbon market equilibrium
- 4. Carbon risk management
- 5. Carbon market issues
- 6. Conclusions
- 7. Test Questions
- Part 2. Economics and policy of energy transition
- Chapter 8. Energy innovation and the sustainability transition
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Energy transitions as ‘whole system’ change
- 3. Trends in sustainable energy innovation
- 4. Delivering a sustainable energy system: the need for insights from innovation and transitions studies
- 5. Energy innovation and wider system change
- 6. Conclusions
- Chapter 9. Impact of variable renewable energy sources on bulk power system planning and operations
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Characteristics of wind and solar PV
- 3. Planning and operational impacts of wind and solar PV
- 4. Mitigating power system planning and operation challenges due to wind and solar power
- 5. Conclusion
- 6. Test Questions
- Chapter 10. Regulatory challenges for energy storage systems
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Problem statement and literature review
- 3. Regulatory challenges associated with market design
- 4. Regulatory challenges associated with network services
- 5. The Californian and German case studies
- 6. Conclusion
- 7. Test questions
- Chapter 11. Multicarrier energy systems
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The need for an integrated approach to multiple energy carriers
- 3. Representation of multiple energy carrier systems
- 4. Optimisation methods for dispatching energy carriers in a single hub or a grid of interconnected hubs
- 5. Conclusions
- Appendix I
- Appendix II
- Chapter 12. Financing the energy transition: the role of public funding, collaboration and private equity
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Public funding of renewable energy
- 3. From public funding to renewable energy collaborations
- 4. From collaboration to private funding of renewable energy
- 5. Private equity investment meets renewable energy
- 6. Conclusion
- 7. Test questions
- Appendix: Data and sampling
- Chapter 13. Beyond energy independence: the geopolitical externalities of renewables
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Renewable energies and the Renewal of Geopolitics
- 3. Similar vulnerabilities, new dependencies
- 4. The geopolitical externalities of soft power in grid communities
- 5. Case studies
- 6. Concluding remarks
- Part 3. Energy data modelling and forecasting
- Chapter 14. A macro-evolutionary approach to energy policy
- 1. Introduction
- 2. A macro-evolutionary approach
- 3. The interactions of energy sector with manufacturing
- 4. The interactions of energy industry and financial sector
- 5. Conclusions and policy discussions
- Chapter 15. Econometric modelling and forecasting of wholesale electricity prices
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Stylised facts
- 3. Econometric modelling and forecasting
- 4. Economic models of the electricity market: some notes
- 5. Conclusion and further reading
- 6. Questions
- Chapter 16. Complex systems applications to electric mobility and regional intermittent sources planning
- 1. The science of complex systems
- 2. Power systems and complex networks
- 3. Application of complex networks to electric mobility planning
- 4. Markowitz portfolios for the spatial planning of renewable sources
- 5. Exercises and self-evaluation questions
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: May 1, 2021
- Imprint: Academic Press
- No. of pages: 692
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128147122
- eBook ISBN: 9780128147139
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Alessandro Rubino
Alessandro Rubino is Assistant Professor in Economics at Jonian Department of Law, Economics and Environment at the University of Bari Aldo Moro. Alessandro has worked extensively on energy market integration in the Mediterranean region focussing its work and research on investment under uncertainty in energy infrastructures. He has worked as Senior Manager for international consultancy services and National regulatory authorities for gas and electricity markets. Alessandro holds a PhD in economics from Siena University and is currently member of the editorial board of the Journal Energy Sources, Part B: Economics, Planning and Policy.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor in Economics at Jonian Department of Law, Economics and Environment at the University of Bari Aldo MoroAS
Alessandro Sapio
Alessandro Sapio is Full Professor of Economic Policy at the Parthenope University of Naples. Professor Sapio has been a member of FP7 project Impressions – Impacts and risks from high-end scenarios on climate policy — and has collaborated with research consultancy companies, such as Ricerche per l'Economia e la Finanza. He also contributes to the portal RiEnergia with comments on energy policy.
Affiliations and expertise
Full Professor of Economic Policy at the Parthenope University of NaplesML
Massimo La Scala
Massimo La Scala is Full Professor of Electrical Energy Systems at Politecnico di Bari, Italy, and Director of the Laboratory for the development of renewables and energy efficiency in urban areas: Progetto ZERO (Zero Emission Research Option). He is an active researcher and principal investigator in numerous projects about smart grids and energy systems. He has been a consultant for many agencies involved in the energy business and regulators in Italy and abroad. He is in the panel of experts in cost–benefit analysis ACB 2.0 for the development of the Italian Transmission Grid on behalf of ARERA (energy regulator) and TERNA (TSO).
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Electrical Energy Systems, Politecnico di Bari, Italy, Director, Laboratory for the Development of Renewables and Energy Efficiency in Urban Areas: Progetto ZERO (Zero Emission Research Option)Read Handbook of Energy Economics and Policy on ScienceDirect