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The importance of flexibility in supply and demand in the natural gas market - The Brazilian case; A importancia da flexibilidade na oferta e na demanda de gas natural - o caso do mercado brasileiro

Abstract

The objective of this dissertation is to identify and discuss the main tools in implementing flexibility in supply and demand in the natural gas market, as well as highlight those which are the most appropriate for the Brazilian market. Flexibility, in this context, means the ability to guarantee a balance of supply versus demand without deficits, considering, mainly, the seasonal variations (winter-summer). From there, the study analyzes these flexibility tools in detail. Next, it discusses which of these flexibility tools are currently being used in more mature foreign markets and which tools could be feasibly applied to the Brazilian market. This dissertation also addresses how the natural gas thermoelectric market in Brazil shows a wide range of seasonality due to this segment's nature of complementing the Brazilian hydroelectric complex. This occurs because the capacity to generate hydroelectricity depends on rainfall for supplying reservoirs. Because of this interdependence, it examines how each the natural gas industry and the power industry operate, and their convergence. The flexibility tools which are already implemented here in Brazil are then presented. Finally, additional relevant new concepts and information are discussed to support the conclusions and final comments about the flexibility tools evolution and new applications.  More>>
Publication Date:
May 15, 2008
Product Type:
Thesis/Dissertation
Report Number:
ETDE-BR-1940
Resource Relation:
Other Information: TH: Diss. (M.Sc.)
Subject:
03 NATURAL GAS; NATURAL GAS INDUSTRY; NATURAL GAS; NATURAL GAS DEPOSITS; PRIMARY RECOVERY; PUBLIC UTILITIES; MARKET; COMMERCIAL SECTOR; COMMERCIALIZATION; ECONOMICS; BRAZIL
OSTI ID:
21429304
Research Organizations:
Coordenacao dos Programas de Pos-Graduacao de Engenharia (COPPE/UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, RJ (Brazil). Programa de Planejamento Energetico
Country of Origin:
Brazil
Language:
Portuguese
Other Identifying Numbers:
TRN: BR11V1437
Availability:
Commercial reproduction prohibited; OSTI as DE21429304
Submitting Site:
BR
Size:
176 pages
Announcement Date:
Jun 02, 2011

Citation Formats

Almeida, Jose Ricardo Uchoa Cavalcanti. The importance of flexibility in supply and demand in the natural gas market - The Brazilian case; A importancia da flexibilidade na oferta e na demanda de gas natural - o caso do mercado brasileiro. Brazil: N. p., 2008. Web.
Almeida, Jose Ricardo Uchoa Cavalcanti. The importance of flexibility in supply and demand in the natural gas market - The Brazilian case; A importancia da flexibilidade na oferta e na demanda de gas natural - o caso do mercado brasileiro. Brazil.
Almeida, Jose Ricardo Uchoa Cavalcanti. 2008. "The importance of flexibility in supply and demand in the natural gas market - The Brazilian case; A importancia da flexibilidade na oferta e na demanda de gas natural - o caso do mercado brasileiro." Brazil.
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title = {The importance of flexibility in supply and demand in the natural gas market - The Brazilian case; A importancia da flexibilidade na oferta e na demanda de gas natural - o caso do mercado brasileiro}
author = {Almeida, Jose Ricardo Uchoa Cavalcanti}
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place = {Brazil}
year = {2008}
month = {May}
}