This was done by limiting the prices the company could charge and setting standards for customer services. Two price controls were used (modifications have been made since restructuring was initiated). The first was a transportation and storage price control, which capped the prices TransCo, which ...
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“China’s desire to walk away from seaborne coal imports by boosting domestic coal output should pose major downside risks to global fossil-fuel prices over the next few years,” Morse wrote. “China could be the only...
In order to obtain a realistic representation of the process economics, we utilize data (process stoichiometries, production costs, material costs, selling prices) from the IHS Markit (2012) Process Economic Yearbook. Data on electricity prices throughout the day are obtained from the Electric ...
The graph from BP shows that the refining industry has generally experienced strengthened refining margins in each of the main refining regions over the last two to three years. Note the margins are not gross margins but are calculated on a “semi-variable” basis, i.e. the margin after all...
The graph below, from the article "The end of cheap oil" by Campbell & Laherrere published in March of 1998 in Scientific American is confirmed today. At the time, we expected the green curve to go down and the brown curve to go up, but we did not expect the latter to move so ...
“Britain bets on nuclear power in its plan to boost energy independence. The government said it aimed to fulfill a quarter of the estimated electricity demand in Britain with nuclear power by 2050.”
Power generation has also played a significant role: with gas usage coming down by approximately 40%, explained by lower electricity usage, higher imports, more use of coal-fired plants, and a rapid increase in wind and solar power over the last couple of years. Interestingly, over...
3 Accordingly, analysis relies heavily on the shadow prices of gas supply at the local level within the network’s nodes. At present, existing studies on gas network infrastructure are insufficient, and the corresponding literature has not yet conducted a comprehensive comparison of different sub-...
After 20 years of research and a lot of money spent, it finally resulted a failure. This failure was due to the wrong choice of a simple structural geology work package: the repository site was too close to a recent volcanic unrest activity outcrop. At present, for example, the French ...