Electricity
Scholarly Publications
Foreign Direct Investment in New Electricity Generating Capacity in Developing Asia: Stakeholders, Risks, and the Search for a New Paradigm
January 2001
The rate of investment sufficient to provide developing Asia with a reasonably adequate supply of electricity is immense, ranging from a World Bank estimate of 2000 megawatts (MW) each month (which...
Power Sector Reforms in India: Issues Relating to Agriculture
March 2004
Excerpt: Q (T L Sankar): Why do utilities charge different rates to different consumers?
Reorganizing the Power Distribution Sector in India
July 2004
This paper presents the central issues for electricity-sector reform in India, as they grew out of the reform process that began in 1991, and within the context of the sector's organization,...
News
U.S.-Japan Dialogue: Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Job Creation
February 2011
On February 23, John Roos, U.S. Ambassador to Japan, Robert Hormats, U.S.
Energy efficiency, financial crisis response, and Fukushima
August 2011
Phillip Lipscy, an assistant professor of political science and a center fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute of International Studies, is currently conducting research on energy efficiency and...
Impact of North Korea sanctions reflected in luminosity gap
June 2016
In a recent television interview with the Korean Broadcasting System (KBS), SK Center Fellow Yong Suk Lee said that tougher economic sanctions on North Korea are not achieving their intended...
Events
Long-Term Power Options for India: Myths, Realities, and Insights
November 22, 1999
The history of Indian power sector is abound with myths like those that envisioned the big projects as "temples of modern India" some fifty years ago, to the recent characterization of the sector...
Innovations in Energy Efficiency: California, Taiwan and Mainland China
February 17, 2009
There is a potential for large gains in the efficiency of energy use with substantial economic payoffs: in buildings, motor vehicles, traffic control, electricity grids, industry.
Research Presentations by Corporate Affiliate Visiting Fellows (Session 4)
June 2, 2009
In this session of the Shorenstein APARC Corporate Affiliate Visiting Fellows Research Presentations, the following will be presented: Jun Ding, “Corporate Social Responsibility in State-Owned...
Projects
Introducing Power Pricing Reforms in India
This is a research study on how the transition to appropriate power pricing mechanisms in Andhra Pradesh might be managed.
English
Multimedia
One Year After Japan’s 3/11 Disaster: Reforming Japan’s Energy Sector, Governance, and Economy
February 2012
In the year following Japan’s 3/11 triple disaster of the Tohoku earthquake, tsunami, and Fukushima nuclear incident, fundamental issues in Japan’s political economy are being debated.
One Year After Japan’s 3/11 Disaster: Reforming Japan’s Energy Sector, Governance, and Economy
February 2012
In the year following Japan’s 3/11 triple disaster of the Tohoku earthquake, tsunami, and Fukushima nuclear incident, fundamental issues in Japan’s political economy are being debated.
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