مستقبل أسواق النفط العالمية Crude and Refined Oil Products Markets: Transient Shocks or Secular Change? The map of world oil flows is changing. It is not only the flows of crude oil that have been affected by surging US light tight oil production, but product flows are also undergoing significant change. Whether these trends will…
أسواق الطاقة الإقليمية China’s Sustainable Fuel Strategies KAPSARC’s China Research Project is investigating the policy-economic nexus that underpins the growth and evolution of China’s energy economy. This workshop investigated one of the major emerging trends of China’s energy transformation: the development of sustainable fuel use.
أسواق الطاقة الإقليمية The KAPSARC Energy Policy Database: Introducing a Quantified Library of China’s Energy Policies براين إفرد, فيليب جالكين Government policy is a critical factor in the understanding of energy markets. Governments create constraints and incentives that drive behavior through policy. In turn, these behaviors have fundamental impacts on the functioning of markets. Despite the critical role of policy,… براين إفرد فيليب جالكين
Energy for Water Energy for water was chosen because it has received less attention in discussions on water and energy, which to date have focused largely on how water is required in the production of different energy resources. Water and energy form a…
مستقبل النقل والطلب على الوقود Drivers of Transportation: Measuring the Impact of Policy on Adoption of Alternative Fuel Vehicles The effects of fuel economy and greenhouse gas (GHG) emission standards continue to reverberate through the automotive industry as governments attempt to reduce tailpipe emissions. Manufacturers are developing alternative fuel powertrains and more efficient internal combustion engines in order to…
Why build energy models as MCPs? An economic perspective فريدريك ميرفي, أكسل بيريو The discipline of microeconomics focuses on the outcomes of the actions of economic agents, where economic agents can be individuals as producers and consumers or organizations that deliver goods or services. Microeconomists have developed a collection of models to understand… فريدريك ميرفي أكسل بيريو
أسواق الطاقة الإقليمية The Dynamics of China’s Energy Economy The growth of its economy means that the People’s Republic of China ranks at the top of many energy related league tables. It produces and consumes roughly 50% of the world’s annual coal demand, while also being the largest importer…
Government intervention in the micro-economy: Modeling the interventions The challenges of energy policy are multiplying, particularly as climate change has become a feature of the discourse around the world. There is no single policy tool that addresses all elements of the energy trilemma – securing affordable, reliable, and…
أسواق الطاقة الإقليمية Drawing from the best: Approaches to modeling China’s energy economy KAPSARC and the U.S. Energy Information Administration jointly convened a working group meeting on June 3, 2014 in Beijing on modeling the Chinese energy economy. This introduced the different models and methods currently being pursued by different stakeholders and so…
أسواق الطاقة الإقليمية Managing China’s energy productivity potential: what lessons for policy makers نيكولاس هوارث Maximizing the economic welfare extracted from the energy system is a key priority for all governments. This can be measured by a country’s energy productivity. Perhaps nowhere else in the world is this issue more salient than in China. China… نيكولاس هوارث
تحولات قطاع الكهرباء تغير مشهد المنافسة: النقاط العمياء لسياسات تحولات الطاقة شهد البردي, هورهي بلازكوز, عمرو الشرفاء, نورا نظام الدين على مدار العقدين أو الثلاثة عقود الماضية، وخاصة في أعقاب الكساد الكبير، كان يتم التعاطي مع تحولات الطاقة النظيفة بأسلوب “ثلاثة سياسات في واحدة”: إيجاد وظائف “طوق أخضر” لإعادة العاطلين عن العمل إلى السوق، واستخدام الموارد المحلية لتقليل الاعتماد على… شهد البردي هورهي بلازكوز عمرو الشرفاء نورا نظام الدين
الإنتاجية والتنويع الاقتصادي Energy productivity: aligning global agendas The well-established link between economic growth and energy usage presents a conundrum for policymakers that can be resolved by focusing on energy productivity to promote greater societal welfare. Energy productivity focuses attention on how energy resources can be put to…
تحولات قطاع الكهرباء Policy Support for Energy Transitions: Where is Public Money Best Spent? Considerations for the effective allocation of public funding in support of energy transitions require an appreciation of the success and failure of policy instruments in achieving balanced energy transitions. Understanding the impact of structural changes in supply chains of both…
The impact of oil price volatility on welfare in the kingdom of saudi arabia: Implications for public investment decision-making Energy Journal Since real oil price is positively correlated with real consumption and domesticincome in Saudi Arabia, a risk premium needs to be considered when assessingthe net present value of oil-related public investment projects. For projects generatingadditional oil exports, this risk premium… أكسل بيريو, وليد مطر
Banning the bulb: Institutional evolution and the phased ban of incandescent lighting in Germany Energy Policy Much academic attention has been directed at analysing energy efficiency investments through the lens of ‘behavioural failure’. These studies have challenged the neoclassical framing of regulation which emphasises the efficiency benefits of price based policy, underpinned by the notion of… نيكولاس هوارث
نقاط الضعف الاقتصادية والطاقية Lowering Saudi Arabia’s fuel consumption and energy system costs without increasing end consumer prices وليد مطر, فريدريك ميرفي, أكسل بيريو, برتراند ريو Saudi Arabia aims to reduce the growth of its energy demand. This paper outlines an approach that could help the country to reduce substantively its current fuel consumption and could result in a net economic gain without increasing current end… وليد مطر فريدريك ميرفي أكسل بيريو برتراند ريو
الإنتاجية والتنويع الاقتصادي The Case for Energy Productivity: It’s Not Just Semantics Ratios that link energy consumption, or its related emissions, to the economic value generated accommodate the differing progress on economic development of nations better than absolute measures. Policymakers are increasingly using indicators such as energy efficiency, intensity, and productivity to…
تحولات قطاع الكهرباء A Framework for Fuel and Technology Transitions in Energy: Evaluating Policy Effectiveness This paper discusses a framework that adds to existing approaches for evaluating energy transitions and policy. The framework that KAPSARC is developing aims to provide a tool for assessing the effectiveness of policy instruments in delivering rapid transitions in the…
Energy systems modeling to support policy making The main needs of energy system models over the past three decades trace a journey from an era in which concerns about security and sufficiency of supply were the dominant themes (1970s and 1980s), through a swing towards liberalizing markets,…
Pushing Maximum Reservoir Contact Applications to New Limits in Tight Facies: A Case Study of Middle East’s Highest Reservoir Exposure Producer ماجد السويلم The paper presents the evolution of reservoir management strategies that supported a recently drilled penta-lateral producer, which set a company record of total reservoir contact in a major greenfield in the Middle East. This paper will investigate the maximum reservoir… ماجد السويلم
