Energy

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Fri, 28/03/2025 - 01:00
Dooho Shin and Rebecca Mari The Bank of England Agenda for Research (BEAR) sets the key areas for new research at the Bank over the coming years. This post is an example of issues considered under the Financial System Theme which focuses on the shifting landscape and new risks confronting financial policymakers. Carbon pricing has emerged … Continue reading Tracking the price of carbon: price substitution effects across energy markets
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Fri, 09/08/2024 - 01:19
by Helene Langlamet

In 2007, the Marcellus Shale Play was opened for production in Pennsylvania. The fracking of the shale unlocked massive fossil fuel reserves previously considered inaccessible. But it also unleashed an especially expensive and wasteful extraction process that involved flushing hundreds of millions of tons of highly toxic chemicals a mile deep into the ground and into the water table. And it brought up natural gas contaminated with unprecedented levels of radioactivity.

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Fri, 02/08/2024 - 18:00
Jenny Chan, Sebastian Diz and Derrick Kanngiesser In recent years, increases in global energy prices have posed significant challenges for net energy importers such as the UK or the euro area. In addition to the inflationary impact, increases in the relative price of energy imply a decline in real incomes for the energy importers. In … Continue reading Monetary policy in a gas-TANK
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Tue, 11/06/2024 - 07:00

In our recent article, “Gaslighting Australia: The Instrumental Power of Australia's Mining and Energy Industries”, we look back on the last decade of Australia’s climate policy inaction. Based on our research, it seems likely that the current strategy, like former strategies, may have more to do with industry-government links than economic realities.

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