Handbook of Energy Economics and Policy: Fundamentals and Applications for Engineers and Energy Planners

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Handbook of Energy Economics and Policy: Fundamentals and Applications for Engineers and Energy Planners presents energy engineers and managers with analytical skills and concepts that enable them to apply simple economic logic to understand the interrelations between energy technologies, economics, regulation and governance of the industry. Sections cover the origins, types and measurement of energy sources, transportation networks, and regulatory and policy issues on electricity and gas at a global level, new economic and policy issues, including innovation processes in the energy industry and economic and policy implications. Final sections cover state-of-the-art methods for modeling and predicting the dynamics of energy systems. Its unique approach and learning path makes this book an ideal resource for energy engineering practitioners and researchers working to design, develop, plan or deploy energy systems. Energy planners and policymakers will also find this to be a solid foundation on which to base decisions. Contents Contributors About the editors Preface Part 1: Fundamentals of the energy industry 1 The energy system • Samuele Furfari 2 Structural analysis of energy demand • Máté János Lőrincz, Jacopo Torriti 3 Energy supply • Elena Telegina, Alexander Maksimenko, Sergey Eremin and Pier Giorgio De Sanctis Lucentini 4 Energy transportation: gas • Sofia Guidi Di Sante, Matteo Di Castelnuovo and Alessandro Rubino 5 Energy transportation: electricity • Christopher Decker 6 Wholesale markets — regulation of electricity and gas industry • Joan Batalla, Maria Teresa Costa-Campi and Elisa Trujillo-Baute 7 Carbon market analysis and risk management • Takashi Kanamura Part 2: Economics and policy of energy transition 8 Energy innovation and the sustainability transition • Matthew Hannon and Ronan Bolton 9 Impact of variable renewable energy sources on bulk power system planning and operations • Michael Craig and Carlo Brancucci 10 Regulatory challenges for energy storage systems • Paola Casati, Matteo di Castelnuovo and Miguel Vazquez 11 Multicarrier energy systems • Soheil Derafshi Beigvand, Hamdi Abdi and Massimo La Scala 12 Financing the energy transition: the role of public funding, collaboration and private equity • Albert Jolink and Eva Niesten 13 Beyond energy independence: the geopolitical externalities of renewables • Gonzalo Escribano Part 3: Energy data modelling and forecasting 14 A macro-evolutionary approach to energy policy • Karolina Safarzynska 15 Econometric modelling and forecasting of wholesale electricity prices • Alessandro Sapio 16 Complex systems applications to electric mobility and regional intermittent sources planning • Angelo Facchini and Antonio Scala Index