Amy Myers Jaffe brings her enviable experience in the field of energy to bear in her revealing, relevant and rousing book, “Energy’s Digital Future".In an era where the conventional concept of the term energy is almost turning out to be anachronistic, Jaffe’s book is all about the perils of creating path dependencies that may lock in the world in lock step with a set of infeasible alternatives, and the solutions that policy makers, individuals and institutions can employ to extricate the world from such path dependencies.
The world is seeing a revolutionary and paradigm shift towards digital energy. Transformational technologies such as on-demand travel services, automated vehicles and robot taxis, data and GPS assisted logistics, decentralized electricity microgrids and 3-dimensional printing all pose significant challenges to the entrenched concept of traditional energy.
Even though some of these technologies are extremely exorbitant, it is only a matter of time before the advantages bestowed by economies of scale would start kicking in, making these novel technologies common.
Oil, Dollars, Debt, and Crises: The Global Curse of Black Gold studies the causes of the current oil and global financial crisis and shows how America's and the world's growing dependence on oil has created a repeating pattern of banking, currency, and energy-price crises. Unlike other books on the current financial crisis, Oil, Dollars, Debt, and Crises shows the reader a more complex picture in which transfers of wealth to and from the Middle East result in a perfect storm of global asset and financial market bubbles, increased unrest, terrorism and geopolitical conflicts, and eventually rising costs for energy. Only by addressing long-term energy policy challenges in the West, economic development challenges in the Middle East,
and the investment horizons of financial market players can policy makers ameliorate the forces that have been causing repeating global economic crises.
Climate change affects virtually every aspect of the U.S. energy system, putting U.S. energy infrastructure increasingly at risk, and could manifest in physical damages and financial market failures. Climate change-related challenges could impede energy firms' access to capital markets or private insurance markets, and the United States is ill prepared for this national security challenge.
To explore these challenges, the Council on Foreign Relations organized a two-day workshop in New York. Participants included current and former state and federal government officials and regulators, entrepreneurs, scientists, investors, financial- and corporate-sector leaders, credit agencies, insurers, NGOs
and energy policy experts, who explored how climate-related risks to U.S. energy infrastructure, financial markets, and national security could be measured, managed, and mitigated.
By most estimates, global consumption of natural gas, a cleaner-burning alternative to coal and oil, will double by 2030. However, in North America, Europe, China, and South and East Asia, the areas of highest-expected demand, the projected consumption of gas is expected to far outstrip indigenous supplies.
Natural Gas and Geopolitics from 1970 to 2040 investigates the implications of this shift, utilizing historical case studies as well as advanced economic modelling to examine the interplay
between economic and political factors in the development of natural gas resources. The contributors aim to shed light on the political challenges which may accompany a shift to a gas-fed world.
The energy reserves of the Caspian Region have been hailed as the new 'Middle East'.
This book offers a thorough assessment of its energy resources and the nature of the international politics that surround them. This volume presents a unique study of the various dimensions of
Caspian energy, ranging from the geopolitical to the economic, technical, religious and political.
1. Breaking new ground : the Caspian region in the 21st century
2. Reaching a world market : pipelines, transit routes and processing plants
3. National interests in the Caspian basin.
