Ferdinand E. Banks

TL;DR: In this article, an Introduction to Electricity Economics Derivatives: Futures, Options and Swaps Some Aspects of Climate Warming: World Oil Oil in Saudi Arabia, Russia and Africa World Gas World Coal Nuclear Energy

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an elementary survey of the electricity deregulation-privatization debate as it is being carried out in both the developed and developing world and make an attempt to clarify certain misunderstandings about introducing more competition into electricity-supply systems, bringing such things as share and derivative markets into the analysis.

TL;DR: This paper showed that the probability that the oil pessimists are correct is large enough to justify the attachment of a sizable discount factor to any claim of future oil abundance, and that the importance of the reserves-to-production ratio has been overlooked.

TL;DR: In this paper, an up-to-date but only moderately technical survey of the natural gas market is presented, where supply, demand and pricing are discussed, and, in the light of the electricity deregulation experiment in California, where the expression "dangerous failure" has been repeatedly used to describe the extensive losses suffered by final consumers and utilities, a modicum of attention is paid to the prospects for deregulating natural gas.

TL;DR: In this paper, an up-to-date but only moderately technical survey of the natural gas market is presented, where supply, demand and pricing are discussed, and, in the light of the electricity deregulation experiment in California, where the expression "dangerous failure" has been repeatedly used to describe the extensive losses suffered by final consumers and utilities (or retailers), a modicum of attention is paid to the prospects for deregulating natural gas.