The threat within: Deregulation and energy security

Survival

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 105-115

  Buchan, David ^a  

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EID: 0040670058     PISSN: 00396338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/survival/44.3.105     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. For a detailed explanation of the California fiasco, see P. L. Joskow, 'California's Electricity Crisis', Oxford Review of Economic Policy, vol. 17, issue 3, Autumn 2001.
2. European Commission Green Paper, 2001, p. 3.
3. The Energy Review, The Cabinet Office, Performance and Innovation Unit (PIU), 2002, p 57.
4. Nixon set out his project in November 1973, in the wake of the Arab oil boycott of the US. In a televised speech, he said: 'Let us set as our national goal, in the spirit of [the] Apollo [space programme], with the determination of the Manhattan [nuclear bomb] programme, that by the end of this decade we will have developed the potential to meet our own energy needs without depending on any foreign energy source'. Daniel Yergin, The Prize (London and New York: Simon and Schuster, 1991), p. 617
5. Jonathan Stern, Security of European Natural Gas Supplies, Royal Institute of International Affairs, 2002, p. 8.
6. The future of gas in Europe, report by UBS Warburg, 2002 p. 56.
7. Dieter Helm, 'Energy Policy: security of supply, sustainability and competition', Energy Policy, 2002, p. 176.
8. Stern, Security of European Natural Gas Supplies, p.24.
9. Financial Times, 5 February 2001.
10. PIU report p. 124.
11. Ibid, p. 121.
12. Security of Supply in Electricity Markets, International Energy Agency, 2002, p. 48.
13. Ibid. None, to be sure, except for California, has gone below the 15-16% threshold generally considered essential to maintain reliability, and in the pre-liberalisation era there was clearly some unnecessary 'gold-plating'.
14. Robert Priddle, speech to Oil and Money conference, London, November 2001.