Search in book...
Toggle Font Controls
Create new playlist

Name your new playlist

Playlist description (optional)
Sign In

Email address

Password

Forgot Password?

or

Continue with Facebook

Continue with Google
Sign Up

Full Name

Email address

Confirm Email Address

Password

or

Continue with Facebook

Continue with Google

Previous Chapter

Table of Contents

Part I: A Roadmap for a Mediterranean Energy Community

Chapter 1: The Regulatory Framework of the Energy Community in South East Europe: Considerations on the Transferability of the Concept

1. Introduction

2. Background of the EC concept

3. Transferring EU policies and mechanisms to SEE

4. The regional concept as a precondition

5. The role of investments in transmission networks

6. The role of regulatory agencies

7. Outline of investment incentive schemes

8. A different approach

Chapter 2: Defining Euro-Mediterranean Energy Relations

1. The EU external energy policy: frameworks of analysis

2. Euro-Mediterranean energy relations

3. Issue (re)definition in the Mediterranean: the securitization of energy matters

Chapter 3: Renewable Energy in the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean: Current Trends and Future Developments

1. Booming energy demand in SEMCs

2. The crucial role of electricity

3. Renewable energy potential of the region

4. The potential benefits of renewable energy in the region

5. SEMC national renewable energy plans

6. Barriers to the development of renewable energy in the region

7. Conclusions: toward a new Euro-Mediterranean renewable energy platform

Chapter 4: Scaling Up Renewable Energy Deployment in North Africa

1. Energy systems in need of transformation

2. Initial steps to support deployment

3. Scaling up is challenging

4. Capitalizing on early steps to transform the energy sector and scale up renewables

Chapter 5: The Renewable Energy Targets of the MENA Countries: Objectives, Achievability, and Relevance for the Mediterranean Energy Collaboration

1. Introduction

4. Transnational perspective

Chapter 6: Toward a New Euro-Mediterranean Energy Roadmap: Setting the Key Milestones

1. Introduction: energy as a key prerequisite for sustainable regional development

2. The Euro-Med energy landscape: an overview

3. The first Euro-Med energy milestone: enhancing hydrocarbon cooperation in the region

4. The second Euro-Med energy milestone: challenging the persistence of energy subsidies

5. The third Euro-Med energy milestone: promoting energy efficiency

6. The fourth Euro-Med energy milestone: unlocking the renewable energy potential

7. The fifth Euro-Med energy milestone: promoting a new interconnected market

8. The sixth Euro-Med energy milestone: financing the sustainable energy transition

9. Conclusions: the need for a new Euro-Mediterranean energy roadmap

Chapter 7: Toward a Mediterranean Energy Community: No Roadmap Without a Narrative

1. Introduction

2. Pathways toward a Mediterranean Energy Community

3. High expectations, harsh realities

4. Managing interdependency: elements for a Mediterranean Energy Community

5. Concluding remarks: developing a credible Euro-Mediterranean energy narrative

Part II: Challenge of Market-Based Regulation

Chapter 8: EU Pressures and Institutions for Future Mediterranean Energy Markets: Evidence from a Perception Survey

1. Introduction

2. Normative diffusion in the energy sector

3. Perception of rules promotion: results from a semistructured survey

Chapter 9: Analysis of Future Common Strategies Between the South and East Mediterranean Area and the EU in the Energy Sector

1. Introduction

2. Model description

3. Scenario description

4. The Reference Scenario

5. Alternative EU–SEM strategies

Chapter 10: Benefits of Market Coupling in Terms of Social Welfare

1. Introduction

2. Day-ahead electricity markets in Europe

3. Benefits from electricity cross-border trading

4. Day-ahead market coupling

5. Benefits from pan-European market coupling

6. Some thoughts about cross-border trade between the Iberian electricity market (MIBEL) and Northern Africa

Chapter 11: Power Market Structure and Renewable Energy Deployment Experiences From the MENA Region

1. Introduction

2. Unbundling of the power sector

3. Renewable energy and private sector participation

4. Renewable energy shares and targets

5. Conclusion – policy implications

Chapter 12: Northern Perspective: Developing Markets Around the Baltic Sea

1. Introduction

2. Political and economic integration in the Baltic Region

3. Nordic electricity market – a success story

4. Gas – weakening Russian dominance

5. Increasing the role of the European Union

Part III: Investments for Grids and Generation Projects

Chapter 13: Private Participation in Energy Infrastructure in MENA Countries: A Global Perspective

1. Introduction

2. Global overview

3. Energy investment

4. Regional overview – the MENA region

Chapter 14: Investment and Regulation in MENA Countries: The Impact of Regulatory Independence

1. Introduction

2. The establishment of regulatory authorities: pitfalls of the institutional endowment of countries

3. The regulatory and institutional landscape in MENA countries

4. Empirical analysis

Chapter 15: Financing Mediterranean Electricity Infrastructure: Challenges and Opportunities for an Interconnected Mediterranean Grid

1. Introduction: regional energy context and OME vision

2. The challenge of financing infrastructure in SEMCs

3. Toward an interconnected Mediterranean grid: some regulatory perspectives

4. Policy implications and conclusions

Chapter 16: New Regional and International Developments to Boost the Euro-Mediterranean Energy Sector

1. Introduction

2. Energy legal reforms in MENA countries

3. The new Euro-Mediterranean energy platforms

4. Toward a new European Neighbourhood Policy

5. The Energy Charter Treaty and the new International Energy Charter

Chapter 17: Investing in Infrastructures: What Financial Markets Want

1. The utilities sector – a historical perspective

2. The role of institutional investors

3. The four key conditions to stimulate investments in infrastructures

..................Content has been hidden....................

You can't read the all page of ebook, please click here login for view all page.

3.145.163.58