Fuel Subsidy Removal: Prospects and Challenges on the Nigerian Economy (Evidence from Akure, Ondo State Metropolis)fuel subsidyFor some years now, one of the most taunting and complex sociology-economic policy issues in Nigeria remains the issue of Fuel subsidy removal. The decision by...
Our party further challenges the APC-led Federal Government to publish details of its sleazy and over-bloated oil subsidy regime, including the involvement of APC interests in the claimed under-recovery for unnamed West African countries, running into trillions of naira, while Nigerian...
Energy tax subsidy policy Densified biomass fuel industry Policy evaluation Policy optimization Partial equilibrium model 1. Introduction In the context of global warming and the energy crisis worldwide, the promotion of energy structural optimization and clean energy development has become a challenge tha...
We remain cautious about the very small end of the market, though design award-winning chargers will be released into the world by MyFC and eZelleron, and the rest of the portable power segment is likely to continue expansion. At the same time, several important subsidy programmes may come...
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....
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 ...
this level amounts to less than 50%, and, in some cases, it reaches only 30%. This means the emergence of deficit needs to be covered by the public. Additionally, public transport systems face numerous challenges, which will have a negative impact on the financial result of the system in...
Therefore, due to the regional differences between different regions, it is also suggested that the government should give full play to the regional advantages and formulate appropriate rural biomass energy clean heating subsidy policies according to local conditions. Giving full play to the market-...
More recent research addresses participation and governance challenges. First mentions date back to the late 1970s and 1980s, principally referring to rising energy costs and ‘the right to fuel’ in countries like the UK [96], [97]. Later research allowed for a wider understanding of the ...
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 ...