Showing papers in "Energy Policy in 1985"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors assess the potential impact of information technology on energy use in advanced economies and find that information technology is expected to raise the energy efficiency of economic activity through its direct application to reducing energy consumption in products and processes, and through the productivity improvements and structural changes it initiates which will not involve substantial increases in energy use.

TL;DR: This paper analyzed existing knowledge of consumer response to conservation incentives for energy efficiency and reviewed the literature on three questions that have been given insufficient attention in formal analyses of energy demand: How does the size of an incentive affect energy users' responses? Are different types of incentives perceived differently even when they have the same economic value? What non-financial features of financial incentive programmes influence their effectiveness?

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the key to achieving both energy conservation and multifactor productivity growth at the same time has been to use energy in conjunction with technologies that achieve more efficient means of combining all production inputs, instead of emphasizing technologies in which energy conservation alone is the over-riding objective.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the present role of biomass energy, the resource base for future development, some promising energy conversion technologies and uses and a few constraints on the development of bioenergy.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the planning context in developing countries and summarizes their needs within an overall analytical framework for analysis and planning, a number of specific approaches and examples are given in the areas of energy demand and supply planning.

TL;DR: In this article, a satisficing site selection model is proposed which could resolve the likely geopolitical impasses in US federal nuclear waste management, based on the constitutional choice and social equity perspectives.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that if some of our power generation systems turn out to be near "immortal", with lives much longer than their book lives, we may, on the contrary, bequeth great benefits to our successors, in fully amortized plant with very low running costs.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the impacts on and the trade-offs between these objectives resulting from alternative policies in order to assist in policy selection and outline an approach for the quantitative examination of alternative policies.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the principles involved in assessing this possibility and an illustration is given from the electricity sector, and discuss the benefits of treating energy as a commodity market.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explained trends in energy use in agriculture in developing countries at the global, national and farm level, and showed that energy input in traditional agriculture is quite significant if the role of animals is taken into account.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors quantify the incentive effects of petroleum taxes and find that the distorting effects observed in many petroleum taxation systems have serious resource recovery consequences and reduce the recovery factor for individual oil and gas reservoirs.

TL;DR: In this paper, the energy security issues associated with Western Europe's imports of Soviet gas were investigated, focusing on France, but the situations of FR Germany and Italy are also examined, concluding that growing West European dependence on natural gas from sources judged politically unreliable will not entail dire or immediate vulnerability to supply cut off.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors state that problems in the organization and management of the electric power sector in developing countries form the primary constraint to an efficient and least cost development of the sector between now and the year 2000.

TL;DR: In this article, the issues involved in designing conservation programs for utilities and determining the appropriate amount of incentives that can be provided to participants without harming non-participants are discussed, and the issue of access to the programmes by utility customers is discussed.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the economics of energy conservation using specific case studies drawn from India and showed that investing in energy efficiency is more economical than investing in the enhancement of domestic energy resources.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a method for choosing an appropriate level of appliance efficiency standards based on conservative economic criteria and the benefits are analysed, and a comparison is made with other levels and criteria that have been proposed in the past.

TL;DR: The authors summarized the principal results of a major econometric study of the determinants of oil exploration in developing countries in the period from 1970 to 1982, concluding that geologic promise is not a necessary condition for exploration to take place in a particular area, it is not sufficient.

TL;DR: In this paper, the energy requirements and costs of the complete nuclear fuel cycle of a light water reactor (LWR) power plant are analyzed, from mining the uranium ore to dismantling the nuclear facilities and final disposal of the radioactive wastes.

TL;DR: In this article, a disaggregated view of the dynamics of deforestation in the Third World is presented, and the mixed results obtained indicate the need for a more disaggregation view.

TL;DR: In this article, computer simulation results for two much discussed strateties for the Dutch electric power system are presented and evaluated, and a set of four criteria for comparison of these strategies is discussed.

TL;DR: The continuing decline in world oil prices will not be halted in the short term, and prospects for the long run are not encouraging as mentioned in this paper, and there is a problem of unprecedented gravity in the surplus capacity of the oil industry.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report on the current status of West German energy policy, and in a sense it is a case study of a predominantly, though not purely, market-oriented approach.

TL;DR: The results of a survey on woodfuel consumption conducted in the Province of Ilocos Norte, the Philippines as discussed by the authors showed that households in the province are trying to compensate for their relatively high levels of fuelwood consumption by turning to other fuels such as bamboo or kerosene.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the transport energy consumption of developing countries and compared it with that of developed countries and found that there is considerable scope for transport energy savings, given the need for improved energy efficiency.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider a number of issues arising from or associated with the UK government's policy of privatization/liberalization of the public sector industries in relation to the formulation and implementation of energy policy.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of the second round of oil price increases on the adoption of effective energy saving methods in industry and in private households in the UK was investigated and the analysis showed that the largest decrease of energy consumption occurred in industry which is both the most energy intensive as well as the most sensitive to energy prices.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a synthesis of seven recent studies as their starting point to establish the regional distribution of ultimate resources of conventional oil and assess the size of future discoveries and their share in the renewal of world oil resources.