scholarly journals The State of Play in Cross-Border Electricity Trade and the Challenges towards a Global Electricity Market Environment

2017 ◽  
pp. 21-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Spyridon Chatzivasileiadis ◽  
Damien Ernst
Keyword(s):  
Electricity Market ◽  
The State ◽  
Market Environment ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Electricity Trade

scholarly journals “No Entry into New South Wales”: COVID-19 and the Historic and Contemporary Trajectories of the Effects of Border Closures on an Australian Cross-Border Community

Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 610
Author(s):  
Dirk H. R. Spennemann
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Economic Impact ◽  
New South ◽  
Community Integration ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
The State ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Health Measures ◽  
Border Community ◽  
South Wales

Given its intensity, rapid spread, geographic reach and multiple waves of infections, the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020/21 became a major global disruptor with a truly cross-sectoral impact, surpassing even the 1918/19 influenza epidemic. Public health measures designed to contain the spread of the disease saw the cessation of international travel as well as the establishment of border closures between and within countries. The social and economic impact was considerable. This paper examines the effects of the public health measures of “ring-fencing” and of prolonged closures of the state border between New South Wales and Victoria (Australia), placing the events of 2020/21 into the context of the historic and contemporary trajectories of the border between the two states. It shows that while border closures as public-health measures had occurred in the past, their social and economic impact had been comparatively negligible due to low cross-border community integration. Concerted efforts since the mid-1970s have led to effective and close integration of employment and services, with over a quarter of the resident population of the two border towns commuting daily across the state lines. As a result, border closures and state-based lockdown directives caused significant social disruption and considerable economic cost to families and the community as a whole. One of the lessons of the 2020/21 pandemic will be to either re-evaluate the wisdom of a close social and economic integration of border communities, which would be a backwards step, or to future-proof these communities by developing strategies, effectively public health management plans, to avoid a repeat when the next pandemic strikes.

RENOVATION OF THE FOREST MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IN TERMS OF THEIR INTEGRATION INTO THE MARKET ENVIRONMENT

2020 ◽  
pp. 87-94
Author(s):  
Olga Gamzina
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Management System ◽  
Current Model ◽  
Forest Resources ◽  
The State ◽  
State Agency ◽  
Forest Plantations ◽  
Market Environment ◽  
Market Mechanisms ◽  
Forest Use

The article considers modern transformations of forestry in Ukraine, including the specifics of its integration into the market environment. It is shown that the currently formed model of forest use has led to a continuous reduction of forest resources and deterioration of the quality of their structure. It is essential to revise the current model, including the forest management system. Currently, more than two thirds of the country's forest resources are available to the State Forest Resources Agency. However, due to the gradual transfer of the entire forest resource sector to market mechanisms of work, it is necessary to provide in advance to ensure its restoration, as well as the implementation of the most acceptable format of private forest use. The main result of the study is a conceptual vision of the new management structure. Due to the fact that in the future forestry will become more and more dependent on the private sector, the new management model should include exactly those tools that will be appropriate in market conditions. Currently, the State Agency for Forest Resources of Ukraine has very limited tools for such influence. The agency, when transferring the site for use, can only control the final result. However, the actual effectiveness of such control remains extremely low. In conditions when the bulk of wood will belong to private companies, it will be problematic to establish systematic monitoring in the country. That is why an effective economic and environmental mechanism of this type of control should be created in advance. Also, the transfer of forest use in the country requires early regulation of all production stages. That is, without such regulation it will be impossible to ensure proper compliance with the law. The introduction of market mechanisms for forest use should take place simultaneously with the introduction of comprehensive rules for the use of forest resources and the restoration of forest plantations. The main purpose of the article is to formulate the basis of a promising model of forest resources management in Ukraine. The problem is that now this area needs to be reformed and is in transition. The previous model of natural resource use in the country has led to a rapid reduction in the number of forest plantations.

The Synekism of Catholic Faith and Citizenship in Peninsular Malaysia

2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 335-365
Author(s):  
Shanthini Pillai
Keyword(s):  
Peninsular Malaysia ◽  
The State ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
General Context ◽  
Subject Formation ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Catholic Faith ◽  
Cultural Mobility ◽  
The Church

Abstract In this paper, I focus on the influence of the Société des Missions étrangères de Paris (MEP) on the performative poetics of Christian faith and citizenship among Malaysian Catholics. Using the central trope of the house, both in its general context of home and dwelling, and its Christian context of the church as a house of worship, I specifically show how cross-border movements, through intersections of individual, material, and cultural mobility stretching across centuries have led to synekistic practices of subject formation in the religious sphere. In this way the paper interjects into discourses on conflict between Christianity and the state and highlights alternative notes of interdependencies and creative synergies.

COVID-19 and the Electricity Market

2022 ◽  
pp. 124-144
Author(s):  
Nima Norouzi
Keyword(s):  
Electricity Market ◽  
Electricity Consumption ◽  
Electricity Industry ◽  
Electricity Demand ◽  
The State ◽  
Short Term ◽  
The World ◽  
Relative Decline

This chapter investigates the effects of COVID-19 on electricity consumption in some countries, especially in Iran. The effect of COVID-19 in the electricity industry and the amount of electricity consumption in Iran and in the countries that have been most affected have been studied. A study of COVID-19's impact on the world shows a reduction of about 15% in electricity demand during the short term of the COVID-19 outbreak. This amount varies from country to country. Studies show that the countries under study have experienced a relative decline in electricity demand in the short term, but with the continued prevalence of COVID-19 and the removal of some restrictions, the state of electricity consumption has more or less returned to pre-COVID-19 levels. It is worth noting that at the time of writing this chapter, the COVID-19 pandemic continues.

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Mark Thatcher ◽  
Tim Vlandas
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Middle East ◽  
The State ◽  
Private Capital ◽  
Economic Openness ◽  
Sovereign Wealth Funds ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Economic Actor ◽  
Domestic Economies

This introductory chapter offers an overview of the book. It identifies the growing size and importance of overseas state investors and how they challenge current political economy analyses of the state. The phenomenon is well illustrated by Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs): state-owned investment bodies, often from Asia and the Middle East, that have bought shares in major firms in strategic sectors ranging from finance to communications and transport, as well as landmark buildings. The chapter presents the puzzle of the widespread acceptance of SWF investments: national responses to SWF purchases might have been expected to be hostile, especially as they represent entry into Western stock markets by non-Western overseas states. Yet many Western governments have accepted and often actively encouraged SWF investments, seeing them as an additional means to govern their domestic economies and pursue their political strategies. The chapter then situates this puzzle in the wider political economy literature on the role and power of the state in an increasingly internationalized economy. It argues that recent political economy works focus on the internationalization of private capital, ignoring the capacity of the state itself to become a cross-border economic actor. It summarizes the book’s findings that several Western governments have engaged in internationalized statism, underlining that the patterns of policy differ sharply from those that might be expected given popular and academic views of economic openness.

scholarly journals Long-Term Generation Scheduling for Cascade Hydropower Plants Considering Price Correlation between Multiple Markets

Energies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
pp. 2239
Author(s):  
Bin Luo ◽  
Shumin Miao ◽  
Chuntian Cheng ◽  
Yi Lei ◽  
Gang Chen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Electricity Market ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Copula Function ◽  
Market Environment ◽  
Scheduling Model ◽  
Multiple Markets ◽  
Generation Scheduling ◽  
Hydropower Plants ◽  
Proposed Model

The large-scale cascade hydropower plants in southwestern China now challenge a multi-market environment in the new round of electricity market reform. They not only have to supply the load for the local provincial market, but also need to deliver electricity to the central and eastern load centers in external markets, which makes the generation scheduling much more complicated, with a correlated uncertain market environment. Considering the uncertainty of prices and correlation between multiple markets, this paper has proposed a novel optimization model of long-term generation scheduling for cascade hydropower plants in multiple markets to seek for the maximization of overall benefits. The Copula function is introduced to describe the correlation of stochastic prices between multiple markets. The price scenarios that obey the Copula fitting function are then generated and further reduced by using a scenario reduction strategy that combines hierarchical clustering and inconsistent values. The proposed model is applied to perform the long-term generation scheduling for the Wu River cascade hydropower plants and achieves an increase of 106.93 million yuan of annual income compared with the conventional scheduling model, without considering price scenarios, showing better performance in effectiveness and robustness in multiple markets.

Turkey’s energy trade relations with Europe: The role of institutions and energy market

2020 ◽  
pp. 0958305X2097729
Author(s):  
Halil Burak Sakal
Keyword(s):  
Water Resources ◽  
Transmission Lines ◽  
Electricity Market ◽  
Power Transmission ◽  
Regional Cooperation ◽  
River Basins ◽  
Power Transmission Lines ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Electricity Trade

Globally, the level of electricity grid interconnectedness between neighboring countries varies depending on the level of regional cooperation enabled by institutions. As suggested by previous research, in transboundary river basins, this variation affects the environment and the management of transboundary waters. In regions where all electricity utilities are connected and function at a synchronized frequency, and where integrated electricity market mechanisms function, the stress on the shared water resources tends to be less. Turkey shares river basins and power transmission lines in Europe both with the members of the European Union (EU) and with non-member states. The aim of this paper is to contribute to the literature on the geopolitics of renewable energy by comparing the level of Turkey’s electricity trade integrity with its EU-member European neighbors and with its non-EU-member neighbors and discuss the potential impacts of the transboundary electricity trade on the environment and the shared water resources. The main argument in this paper is that the higher level of electricity trade between Turkey and its EU-member neighbors is facilitated and boosted by Turkey’s membership to the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ENTSO-E). The higher level of electricity interconnection leads to a higher level of cooperation in water and environment issues in the shared river basins between Turkey and Europe through the facilitating role of established institutions.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document