
Regulatory interventions for promoting investments in environmentally benign energy technologies
The costs and effectiveness of two CO2 emission control policies in Japan

The costs and effectiveness of two CO2 emission control policies in Japan

This study examines perspectives of different generating systems (nuclear, LNG, coal, oil, thermal power) in economic terms by extimating their generating costs at the plants commissioned in fiscal 1992 and those in fiscal 2000 from current and likely levels of unit construction cost, fuel price and other conditions.

This paper integrates a simple model of the global economy with a model of the global climate.

Energy prices are a much favoured target of public policy, subject to price controls in franchised monopoly markets, with a levy applied to electricity generated from fossil-fuel generating sets passed over to the operators of nuclear power stations.

Three papers based upon presentations at a seminar held at Hertford College, Oxford in February 1992. The presentations were intended to offer rather different perspectives on gas regulation.