From the moment the paper was read on the floor of the Senate the entire nation has been thrown into a state of confusion with Nigerians begging to know if it is a right move or not. Hence public attention has concentrated on the issue of subsidy and deregulation of the downstream oil s...
policy that provided the template for removing petrol subsidy on the New Year Day of 2012 and consequently dismissed Mr. President's unilateral action as illegal and ill- timed, which needed to be rescinded.Keywords: interpretation, coherence, fuel subsidy, discourse an...
and the emergence of groups in and around Pertamina with interests in the persistence of the subsidy regime, respectively. The key themes emerging from this analysis are discussed inSection 7, along with some implications of the Indonesian experience for our understanding of FFS and for the reform...
For caribou, the ecological consequences of oil and gas development long outlive the time that a well site is active. Even old well sites that have been officially "reclaimed" often remain "in an arrested successional state," meaning that caribou are very unlikely to passively recover without la...
This reflects the low or absent commercial subsidy regimes in comparison with these other regions, but also uncertainty in European energy markets, turmoil in the energy utilities, and the impacts of austerity regimes more generally. The only exception is buses; more fuel cell buses are operating ...
When homeowners put solar panels on their roofs, the electricity they sell to the utility is often “net metered” (credited with the full retail value of electricity that this home would pay). This is a huge subsidy to the owners of the solar panels because ...
To analyze the impact of China’s energy tax subsidy policy (ETS) on the development of densified biomass fuel (DBF) industry, this study constructs a partial equilibrium model of the densified biomass fuel industry sector to quantitatively evaluate and optimize the effect of China’s current ETS...
led to a peak of almost 120,000 sales in 2016. In the following years, a combination of subsidy withdrawal and saturation of tier-1 cities has caused sales in China to decline and then plateau. The rest of the world is only now following suit, with the European market leading the way....
2.2.5. Production and investment subsidies While production subsidies, such as feed-in tariffs, or premiums are common for renewable electricity, biofuel policy in the EU has been focused on consumption, through blending mandates. The only direct production subsidy is found in Italy, that introduced...
Subsidy of fuel cells for distributed power generation is identified to start at about 50% and decline. The commercialisation of fuel cell buses in developing countries will require support in buying down the incremental costs, and demonstration projects are being introduced with a positive outlook ...