Pub Date : 2018-12-01DOI: 10.1007/S41825-018-0008-9
Aisha Al‐Sarihi, J. Cherni
{"title":"Assessing strengths and weaknesses of renewable energy initiatives in Oman: an analysis with strategic niche management","authors":"Aisha Al‐Sarihi, J. Cherni","doi":"10.1007/S41825-018-0008-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/S41825-018-0008-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":107203,"journal":{"name":"Energy Transitions","volume":"539 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127053684","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-09-21DOI: 10.1007/S41825-018-0010-2
H. Schiffer, Johannes Trüby
{"title":"A review of the German energy transition: taking stock, looking ahead, and drawing conclusions for the Middle East and North Africa","authors":"H. Schiffer, Johannes Trüby","doi":"10.1007/S41825-018-0010-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/S41825-018-0010-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":107203,"journal":{"name":"Energy Transitions","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122844298","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-09-14DOI: 10.1007/S41825-018-0009-8
Dalia M. Ibrahiem
{"title":"Investigating the causal relationship between electricity consumption and sectoral outputs: evidence from Egypt","authors":"Dalia M. Ibrahiem","doi":"10.1007/S41825-018-0009-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/S41825-018-0009-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":107203,"journal":{"name":"Energy Transitions","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127337233","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The energy landscape is changing rapidly with far-reaching implications for the global energy industry and actors, including oil companies and oil-exporting countries. These rapid changes introduce multidimensional uncertainty, the most important of which is the speed of the transition. While the transformation of the energy system is rapid in certain regions of the world, such as Europe, the speed of the global energy transition remains highly uncertain. It is also difficult to define the end game (which technology will win and what the final energy mix will be), as the outcome of transition is likely to vary across regions. In this context, oil companies are facing a strategic dilemma: attempt the risky transition to low-carbon technologies by moving beyond their core business or just focus on maximising their return from their hydrocarbon assets. We argue that, due to the high uncertainty, oil companies need to develop strategies that are likely to be successful under a wide set of possible future market conditions. Furthermore, the designed strategies need to be flexible and evolve quickly in response to anticipated changes in the market. For oil-exporting countries, there is no trade-off involved in renewable deployment as such investments can liberate oil and gas for export markets, improving the economics of domestic renewables projects. In the long run, however, the main challenge for many oil countries is economic and income diversification as this represents the ultimate safeguard against the energy transition. Whether or not these countries succeed in their goal of achieving a diversified economy and revenue base has implications for investment in the oil sector and oil prices and consequently for the speed of the global energy transition.
{"title":"The rise of renewables and energy transition: what adaptation strategy for oil companies and oil-exporting countries?","authors":"B. Fattouh, R. Poudineh, Robert N. West","doi":"10.26889/9781784671099","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26889/9781784671099","url":null,"abstract":"The energy landscape is changing rapidly with far-reaching implications for the global energy industry and actors, including oil companies and oil-exporting countries. These rapid changes introduce multidimensional uncertainty, the most important of which is the speed of the transition. While the transformation of the energy system is rapid in certain regions of the world, such as Europe, the speed of the global energy transition remains highly uncertain. It is also difficult to define the end game (which technology will win and what the final energy mix will be), as the outcome of transition is likely to vary across regions. In this context, oil companies are facing a strategic dilemma: attempt the risky transition to low-carbon technologies by moving beyond their core business or just focus on maximising their return from their hydrocarbon assets. We argue that, due to the high uncertainty, oil companies need to develop strategies that are likely to be successful under a wide set of possible future market conditions. Furthermore, the designed strategies need to be flexible and evolve quickly in response to anticipated changes in the market. For oil-exporting countries, there is no trade-off involved in renewable deployment as such investments can liberate oil and gas for export markets, improving the economics of domestic renewables projects. In the long run, however, the main challenge for many oil countries is economic and income diversification as this represents the ultimate safeguard against the energy transition. Whether or not these countries succeed in their goal of achieving a diversified economy and revenue base has implications for investment in the oil sector and oil prices and consequently for the speed of the global energy transition.","PeriodicalId":107203,"journal":{"name":"Energy Transitions","volume":"98 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122655305","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-12-14DOI: 10.1007/s41825-017-0007-2
S. Hertog
{"title":"Making wealth sharing more efficient in high-rent countries: the citizens’ income","authors":"S. Hertog","doi":"10.1007/s41825-017-0007-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41825-017-0007-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":107203,"journal":{"name":"Energy Transitions","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133468724","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-12-01DOI: 10.1007/S41825-017-0005-4
T. Boersma, S. Jordaan
{"title":"Whatever happened to the Golden Age of natural gas?","authors":"T. Boersma, S. Jordaan","doi":"10.1007/S41825-017-0005-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/S41825-017-0005-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":107203,"journal":{"name":"Energy Transitions","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123195941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-11-07DOI: 10.1007/S41825-017-0006-3
N. Howarth, M. Galeotti, A. Lanza, K. Dubey
{"title":"Economic development and energy consumption in the GCC: an international sectoral analysis","authors":"N. Howarth, M. Galeotti, A. Lanza, K. Dubey","doi":"10.1007/S41825-017-0006-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/S41825-017-0006-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":107203,"journal":{"name":"Energy Transitions","volume":"1993 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131145561","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-06-01DOI: 10.1007/S41825-017-0003-6
S. Griffiths
{"title":"Renewable energy policy trends and recommendations for GCC countries","authors":"S. Griffiths","doi":"10.1007/S41825-017-0003-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/S41825-017-0003-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":107203,"journal":{"name":"Energy Transitions","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128758696","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-06-01DOI: 10.1007/S41825-017-0002-7
A. Elshurafa, Walid Matar
{"title":"Adding solar PV to the Saudi power system: what is the cost of intermittency?","authors":"A. Elshurafa, Walid Matar","doi":"10.1007/S41825-017-0002-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/S41825-017-0002-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":107203,"journal":{"name":"Energy Transitions","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129073128","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-06-01DOI: 10.1007/S41825-017-0004-5
P. Linares, Pablo Pintos, Klaas Würzburg
{"title":"Assessing the potential and costs of reducing energy demand","authors":"P. Linares, Pablo Pintos, Klaas Würzburg","doi":"10.1007/S41825-017-0004-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/S41825-017-0004-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":107203,"journal":{"name":"Energy Transitions","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129841042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}