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Stennes, Brad; Niquidet, Kurt; van Kooten, G. Cornelis. |
Energy has been produced from woody biomass in British Columbia for many decades, but it was used primarily within the pulp and paper sector, using residual streams from timber processing, to create heat and electricity for on-site use. More recently, there has been limited stand-alone electricity production and increasing capacity to produce wood pellets, with both using ‘waste’ from the sawmill sector. Hence, most of the low-cost feedstock sources associated with traditional timber processing is now fully employed. While previous studies model bioenergy production in isolation, we employ a transportation model of the BC forest sector with 24 regions to demonstrate that it is necessary to consider the interaction between utilization of woody feedstock for... |
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Bioenergy production from wood fibre; Mountain pine beetle; Competition for fibre; Environmental Economics and Policy; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy; Q23; Q42; C61; Q54. |
Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/50782 |
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Bojnec, Stefan; Papler, Drago. |
This paper investigates the question of promotion of more efficient use of energy and for an increase in supply and use of energy from the renewable sources of energy in rural areas. The empirical research is based on the analysis of the survey evidence that is obtained by the written questionnaire. The 516 in-depth surveys were conducted among the scholars, students, and employees from social sciences, natural sciences, electrical energy supply, and energy management in the six different towns in Slovenia. The surveys data are analysed by using descriptive statistics, comparisons of average values, correlation, and multivariate factor analysis. The needs for more efficient energy use between different users and the significance of production of renewable... |
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Renewable sources of energy; Rural development; Promotion; Slovenia; Community/Rural/Urban Development; L94; O13; Q42; M39. |
Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/95307 |
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Goswami, Kishor; Saikia, Jitu; Choudhury, Hari Kanta. |
Energy security, emissions control and environmental concerns are some of the issues that drive India to search for bio-fuels in general and bio-diesel in particular as an alternative source of energy. The inception of National Biofuel Mission in 2003 has resulted in expansion of jatropha plantations in different states of the country. In North-East India, jatropha plantation was started in 2007, mostly at small farmers’ level with direct and indirect initiatives of the government and the private sector. However, adoption and expansion of jatropha plantation in the rural areas largely depend on profitability from such plantations at farmers’ level. The present study has assessed the profitability of jatropha plantation in four states of North-East India,... |
Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Jatropha; Bio-fuels; Bio-diesel; North-East India; Cost-benefit analysis; Agricultural and Food Policy; Q16; Q49; Q42. |
Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/109423 |
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Kim, C.S.; Schaible, Glenn D.; Daberkow, Stan G.. |
Rapidly declining gasoline prices from their record high during the summer of 2008, while ethanol prices remained relatively high, made it difficult for many bio-fuel policy modelers to fully explain the impacts of U.S. bio-fuel policies on fuel prices. Using profit-maximization models for blenders, refiners, and distillers, we conduct a comparative static analysis to measure the relative magnitudes of the impacts of tax credits and blending mandates on fuel-energy market equilibrium prices. Our results indicate that first, the prices of all fuels including conventional gasoline, ethanol, and blended gasoline decline as the biofuel tax credit increases, but they increase as the rate of the blending mandate increases. Second, the shadow value of a blending... |
Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Bio-fuel tax credits; Blended gasoline; Blender’s market power; Mandated blending; Tariff; Agribusiness; Marketing; Political Economy; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy; Q11; Q21; Q42; Q48. |
Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/57157 |
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Franken, Jason R.V.; Parcell, Joseph L.. |
Increased use of alternative fuels and low commodity prices have contributed to the recent expansion of the U.S. ethanol industry. As with any competitive industry, some level of output price risk exists in the form of volatility; yet, no actively traded ethanol futures market exists to mitigate output price risk. This study reports estimated minimum variance cross-hedge ratios between Detroit spot cash ethanol and the New York Mercantile Exchange unleaded gasoline futures for 1-, 4-, 8-, 12-, 16-, 20-, 24-, and 28-week hedge horizons. The research suggests that a one-to-one cross-hedge ratio is not appropriate for some horizons. |
Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Cross-hedging; Ethanol; Gas; G13; Q13; Q42. |
Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/43152 |
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