The U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) must balance environmental protection of riverine resources with the nation's growing demand for power production every time ii issues a hydroelectric license. This paper models the bureaucratic agency's decision-making process in issuing these licenses. Data on nearly 500 hydropower licenses issued from 1983 to 2005 are utilized. It is disco...

Voluntary environmental programs (VEPs) can address environmental externalities when mandatory regulations are unattainable or undesirable. The extent to which VEPs succeed at improving environmental quality depends on participation levels from firms and consumers. We examine the factors that lead to a successful VEP by studying participation levels in residential green electricity programs. Am...

The present study employed various qualitative techniques to investigate the nature and influence of policies regulations concerning solar wind pricing on Australian electricity spot options markets. analysis was based data gathered through interviews conducted with energy managers, chief executive officers other significant personnel from industry. interviewees’ responses regarding relevance m...

This article revisits an analysis by Frondel, Ritter and Schmidt (2008) of Germany’s Renewable Energy Act, which legislates a system of feed-in tariff s to promote the use of renewable energies. As in the original article, we argue that Germany’s support scheme subsidizes renewable energy technologies not based on their long-term market potential, but rather on their relative lack of competitiv...

The Philippines is exploring different alternative sources of energy to become energy-independent while significantly reducing the country's greenhouse gas emissions. Green hydrogen from renewable one most sustainable alternatives with its application as an carrier and a source clean well raw material for various industrial processes. As preliminary study in country, this paper aims explore pro...

This paper investigates the direct and indirect impacts of ethanol production on land use, deforestation and food production. A partial equilibrium model of a national economy with two sectors and two regions, one of which includes a residual forest, is developed. It analyses how an exogenous increase in the ethanol price a ects input allocation (land and labor) between sectors (energy crop and...

In several European countries with Germany leading a remarkable increase in capacities and corresponding electricity generation from wind and photovoltaic power plants took place in recent years. The core objective of this paper is to investigate the possible effects of such a further uptake of renewables on the European electricity markets. The major effects of these developments on the electr...

BACKGROUND Acute promyelocytic leukemia is characterized by a typical reciprocal translocation t(15;17)(q22;q21). Additional chromosomal abnormalities are reported in only 23-43 % of cases of acute promyelocytic leukemia. CASE PRESENTATION Here we report the case of a 46-year-old Syrian Alawis woman with acute promyelocytic leukemia with the typical t(15;17) translocation, but with a second c...