Special issue on Impacts of emission trading on power industry and electricity markets
Special issue call for papers from International Journal of Energy Sector Management
The International Journal of Energy Sector Management provides a peer-reviewed, inter-disciplinary international platform for disseminating results of research related to and/or relevant for the management of the energy sector.
Climate change is deemed to be one of the most important issues in this millennium, and has been becoming an emerging matter of extensive concern especially in developed countries as the result of ever-worsening global warming. Emissions trading, in principle an efficient way to reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases, has been implemented in the European Union, and proposed in a number of other countries including Australia and the USA.
The power industry around the world plays a vital role for modern society through the convenient provision of a wide range of energy services. However, the power industry is the largest emitter of greenhouse gases (GHGs) in many countries, and hence plays a significant role in mitigating the emission of GHGs. The potential impacts of emission trading on the power industry and electricity markets are believed to be significant, and much research work has been done around the globe in recent years.
The purpose of this special issue is to investigate the impacts or potential impacts of various schemes of emissions trading on power industries and electricity markets, including they key issues of emissions-trading scheme design, the methods of allowance allocation and particularly their impacts on generation investments, enhancement of renewable energy sources and electricity prices. This special issue seeks contributions from researchers, academicians, practitioners, utility management team members, system operators and policy makers.
Subject coverage
Examples of topics appropriate to the theme of this special issue include, but are not limited to:
State-of-the-art and prospects of emissions-trading development around the globe.
Impacts of various schemes of emissions trading on short-term and long-term generation investment.
Impacts of various schemes of emissions trading on the enhancement of renewable energy generation sources.
The impacts of various schemes of emissions trading on wholesale and retail electricity prices.
Electricity market equilibrium with various emissions-trading schemes enforced.
Interactions between various emissions-trading schemes and national energy policies.
Impacts of different allocation schemes of carbon emission certificates on the power industry.
The sustainability impacts and comparisons of various emissions-trading schemes on energy-intensive industries.
Case studies.
Manuscript preparation
Please refer to the Journal Information and Author Guidelines for additional information on manuscript preparation at: http://info.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/journals.htm?id=IJESM
Manuscripts should be in English and normally not exceed 6,000 words in length (single column, 10pt running text, single spacing), with all contributions being subject to a double review process. Manuscripts must be sent electronically (fushuan.wen@gmail.com; snsingh@iitk.ac.in) in both Word document and PDF formats.
Important dates
Full paper submission deadline (early submission recommended --
the referee process starts once a paper has been received):
31 January 2010
Notification of the status and acceptance of papers: 30 April 2010
Deadlines for revised manuscripts: 30 June 2010
Final version of papers ready for the publisher: 30 August 2010
Notes for prospective authors
Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere.
Guest Editors
Dr Fushuan Wen, Professor and Director,
Institute of Power Economics and Information,
School of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University,
Hangzhou 310027, China
Tel: +86-20-87114258
Fax: +86-20-87113037
E-mail: fushuan.wen@gmail.com
Dr S.N. Singh, Visiting Professor,
Department of Electrical Engineering, CET,
Denmark Technical University, Elektrovej, DTU-Building 325,
2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
Tel: +45 452 53530
Fax: +45 458 8 6111
E-mail: snsingh@iitk.ac.in
sns@elektro.dtu.dk
URL: http://home.iitk.ac.in/~snsingh