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THE UK ENERGY EXPERIENCE
A Model or A Warning?
Proceedings of the British Institute of Energy Economics Conference
University of Warwick 11 - 12 December 1995
edited by G MacKerron (University of Sussex, UK) & P Pearson (Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, UK)
The UK energy system has experienced radical reform in past decade — privatisation, liberalisation, re-structuring and re-regulation for gas/electricity supply and coal, plus rapid technological change and flexible fiscal policy in offshore oil/gas. Many countries are seeking to travel similar paths, though more slowly (eg USA, EU, E. Europe, Latin America, Pacific Rim) and are following UK experience. The conference brings together academics, business economists and consultants to give the first major evaluation from an economics pespective of the extent to which the UK experience has been successful, and how far it might be reproduced elsewhere.
Contents:
- The Restructuring of UK Energy Industries: What Have We Learned? (D
M Newbery)
- The Likely Effects of Competition in the UK Domestic Gas Market (J Surrey)
- Opening the Domestic Gas Market — Can Customers be Winners? (N Evans)
- The UK Petroleum Fiscal System in Retrospect (A G Kemp & L Stephens)
- Pipeline Regulation and the North Sea Oil Infrastructure (P Stevens)
- North Sea Oil and Gas: The Exploitation of the Oil and Gas Resources of the North Sea: Retrospect and Prospect (P R Odell)
- The Decline of UK Coal: Economics or Politics? (M J Parker)
- British Electricity Privatisation: The Customer's Standpoint (G R Horton)
- Competition Versus Regulation in British Electricity Generation (P Gray et al.)
- Energy Efficiency: Some Policy Priorities (J Chesshire)
- Assessing Fiscal Policy for Greenhouse Gas Abatement in the UK and the European Union (T Barker)
- Transport and UK Energy Policy (K Button)
- Energy Policy: Back to the Bad Old Days? (C Robinson)
- On the Implementation of Economic Regulation in UK Energy Industries (M Waterson)
- Lessons from UK Electricity Reforms for Developing Countries (J E Besant-Jones)
- "The UK Energy Experience: A Model or a Warning?" A Summing Up (P A Davies)
- and other papers
Readership: Undergraduates, graduates and energy/regulatory specialists.
“Together the submissions cover the full range of energy issues in the UK. They provide a snapshot both of what the major policy issues are, and of the concerns of academic research ... readers will find in the book a useful insight into UK policy thinking, in particular the attention given to privatization and regulation.”
| Journal of Energy Literature II |
“Readers of the Imperial College publication will find it easy to select individual papers which are of interest ... provide valuable material for anyone undertaking a serious study of recent developments in energy policy.”
| 524pp |
Pub. date: Mar 1996 |
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