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Adapting to changing energy prices: proceedings of the 1981 IAEE conference

Book ·
OSTI ID:6477129
This book presents the papers given at a conference whose purpose was to discuss the effects of higher energy prices resulting from the substantial jumps in world oil prices after the Iranian revolution. Topics considered at the conference included the energy resource base of developing countries, investments in energy supply industries and the economy of the OECD, modeling OPEC behavior, the natural gas resources of Western Europe, the situation in the IEA countries, price and income elasticities in OECD countries, time-of-use pricing for residential electricity customers, UK industrial energy use since 1973, the use of petroleum futures to stabilize energy costs and profits, spot and futures market oil price formation, energy pricing and utilization of coal in Alberta, the economics of oil sands, the outlook for synthetic fuels, comparative resource costs of energy from waste, financing solar repowering, interruptible power, competing energy uses for wood wastes in British Columbia, the adjustment to higher oil prices in Brazil, a national energy assessment of the Dominican Republic, the impact of oil price shocks on Sweden, and the energy and economic climate of Taiwan.
Research Organization:
Univ. of Toronto
OSTI ID:
6477129
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English