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Selected Studies on Energy




A 1980 collection of 12 background papers commissioned by the Study Group that cover in greater detail issues addressed in its 1979 publication Energy: The Next Twenty Years. Topics addressed include the role of the automobile in energy price regulation, institutional obstacles to cogeneration and a more in-depth version of the energy demand study covered in the original report.

Landsberg, Hans H., editor
1980
449 pages


Contents
List Of Tables
List Of Figures
Energy: the Next Twenty Years Study Group
List Of Members
Preface
1 Dimensions of Energy Demand
Energy Demand
Diversity of Energy Uses
FLEXIBILITY IN Energy Demand
Estimating Substitution Potential
Demand Forecasts
Energy Demand ADJUSTMENTS
INTERNATIONAL Energy Demand
Interfuel Substitution
Conclusions
Appendix A: Analytical Framework
Appendix B: Data Sources
2 Energy Policies and Automobile Use of Gasoline
Perspective: Policies and Programs
Determining Gasoline Use by Automobiles
Summary AND Conclusions
Mathematical Appendix: Derivation of Equation (2.1)
3 The Electric Utilities Face the Next Twenty Years
Particular Problems
General Problems
Conclusion
4 Price Regulation and Energy Policy
Utility Regulation
Price Regulation in an Era of Rising Costs
An Example from the Natural Gas Industry
Electric Utility Rates and Marginal Costs
Oil Price Regulation
Solutions
Conclusion
Appendix
5 Institutional Obstacles to Industrial Cogeneration
The Cogeneration Concept
The Technology of Industrial Cogeneration
Fuel-Saving Potential of Industrial Cogeneration
Advantages of Cogeneration
Institutional Barriers to Implementation
Present Policy Initiatives
The Question of Competition
Selected Bibliography
6 Preparing for an Oil Crisis: Elements and Obstacles in Crisis Management
Introduction
Emergency Petroleum Reserve Programs in Six Oil- Importing Countries
Key Emergency Management Problems
The U.S. Government Emergency Preparedness Program
Conclusions
7 Energy Prospects in Western Europe and Japan
The Oil Shock and Brave New Visions
Problems with Energy Policy
Selected Country Situations
Problems of Cooperation Among the Industrial Democracies
Conclusions
8 Prospects and Problems for an Increased Resort to Coal in Western Europe, 1980-2000
Coal In the Contemporary Energy Economy of Western Europe
In The Wake of the Energy Crisis
Market Prospects for Coal in the 1980S
Supply Alternatives for Coal in the 1980S
The Longer Term Prospects for Coal
Summary
9 Prospects and Problems for an Increased Resort to Nuclear Power in Western Europe, 1980-2000
Nuclear Power in the Contemporary Energy Economy of Western Europe
Response to the Energy Crisis
Anatomy of the Delays to the Nuclear Programs
Longer Term Prospects for Nuclear Power
Conclusion
10 Energy Policy in the Soviet Union and China
Footnotes
11 Energy in Non-Opec Developing Countries
Introduction
Assessment of Ldc Energy Characteristics7
Characteristics of High Energy Use/Urbanization—Group I
Medium Energy Use/Urbanization —Group II
Low Energy Use/Urbanization —Group III
Energy Demand PROJECTIONS
Energy/Gnp Ratio
Energy Use and Efficiency Alternatives
Energy Supply Alternatives
Ldc Energy Proposals
Conclusion
12 Opec and the Political Future of the World Oil Market
From Company Oligopoly to Government Cartel
The Opec System: Economics and Politics
Cohesion and Conflict Within Opec
Political Instability in and Around Opec Countries
Another Embargo? Another Iran?
Policies of Non-Opec Exporters
Policies of Consumer Countries
The Roles of the Soviet Union and China
Summary
Contents for Energy: the Next Twenty Years
Index
List Of Contributors
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