Why would a small, middle-income country, stuck in the turbulence of deep political and economic changes, care about global environmental problems? After the breakdown of the Communist regime in 1989, the 1990s were marked by serious social and economic ...

This article introduces a bottom-up global model of the pulp and paper sector (PULPSIM) with a focus on energy consumption and carbon emissions. It is an annual recursive simulation behavioural model with a 2030 time horizon incorporating several ...

During the last decade the Spanish energy system has become more energy and carbon intensive, and more dependent on external energy resources. The regulation of the electricity market has significantly changed. Two scenarios for the 2030 time horizon are ...

The paper assesses spatial competition in diesel taxation among European governments. By adding an extension to the standard model, it is shown that asymmetric competition - small countries undercutting large - implies that small countries respond less ...

The European Emission Trading Scheme, the greatest emission trading system in the world, was launched on the first of January 2005. Since emission allowances (EUA) in this market are completely homogeneous and available in large quantities, they behave ...

The purpose of this paper is to construct a short-term economic model for the wholesale electricity market in the Central and Eastern European region - assuming conditions after a complete opening-up of the market. Among the inputs we provide an estimate ...

Jelen elemzésben két, a hosszú távú ellátásbiztonság szempontjából döntő tényezőt vizsgálunk részletesebben. Egyrészt összehasonlítjuk a 2004-ben csatlakozott új tagországok elsődleges energiaimport-függőségét a régi tagállamokat jellemző helyzettel.

This paper examines the functioning of the balancing market of the electricity sector in Hungary. Balancing energy is an ancillary service, which is used by the transmission system operator (TSO) to guarantee the continuous supply of electricity. The TSO ...

The fall of communism left some of the most polluting and wasteful energy sectors of the World in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). After 15 years of restructuring, eight of these countries have joined the European Union (EU), closing an era of economic ...