The transition towards renewable and sustainable energy is being accompanied by a transformation of communities and neighbourhoods. This transition may have huge ramifications throughout society. Many cities, towns and villages are putting together ambitious visions about how to achieve 100% sustainable energy, energy neutrality, zero carbon emission or zero-impact of their communities. We investigate what is happening at the local community level towards realizing these ambitions from a social perspective. We use the case study approach to answer the following question: how do local community energy initiatives contribute to a decentralized sustainable energy system? We find that especially the development of a shared vision, the level of activities and the type of organisation are important factors of the strength of the ‘local network’.

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Power to the people: Local community initiatives and the transition to sustainable energy

Dynamic risk spillovers between gold, oil prices and conventional, sustainability and Islamic equity aggregates and sectors with portfolio implications

Measuring energy efficiency: Is energy intensity a good evidence base?

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Environmental and Financial Performance of Fossil Fuel Firms: A Closer Inspection of their Interaction

Carbon tax and energy innovation at crossroads of carbon neutrality: Designing a sustainable decarbonization policy.

Energy issues feature frequently in the economic and financial press. Specific examples of topical energy issues come from around the globe and often concern economics and finance. The importance of energy production, consumption and trade raises fundamental economic issues that impact the global economy and financial markets. This volume presents research on energy economics and financial markets related to the themes of supply and demand, environmental impact and renewables, energy derivatives trading, and finance and energy. The contributions by experts in their fields take a global perspective, as well as presenting cases from various countries and continents.

Energy economics and financial markets

Introduction: 1 Financial Aspects in Energy: The European Perspective.- Markets: 2 The Development of Energy Markets in Europe.- 3 Renewables in the Energy Market.- 4 The CO2 -Trading Market in Europe.- Prices: 5 Market Efficiency in a Changing Energy Environment.- 6 The Price Forming Process in Energy Markets.- 7 The Electricity Market, Day Ahead Market and Futures.- Regulations: The Disintegration of the Concept of Sovereignity and the Energy Sector in Europe.- 9 The EU Energy Policy After the Lisbon Treaty.- 10 The Developments of the European Electricity Market in a Juridical no Man's Land.- Firms: Value Creation with Wood-Based Energy Sources.- 12 Tackling With Natural Monopoly in Electricity and Natural Gas Markets

Financial aspects in energy : a European perspective

We provide new evidence of the impact of the ongoing deep financial crisis on the performance of Dutch IPOs during the period from January 1990 to May 2012. The findings indicate an increasing level of underpricing as a result of the recent financial crunch. This situation is attributed to the aggressive efforts of underwriters to create demand as well as their strong focus on rewarding investors for their participation. Their actions build the soil for long-term underperformance, a conclusion supported by multiple studies in the literature. Pre-owner loyalty signals the IPOs’ quality and promotes compensation by less underpricing. Going public with the aid of a reputable underwriter does not pay off, as it does not reduce the amount of money left on the table. Consistent with the information revelation theory, we argue that the underpricing phenomenon can be largely explained by a general desire for listing.

European Sovereign Debt Crisis and the Performance of Dutch IPOs

This chapter firstly provides an overview of the day-ahead and futures electricity markets of APX-ENDEX that is one of Europe’s most experienced energy exchanges, operating spot and futures markets for electricity and natural gas in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Belgium. An empirical analysis on the relationship between spot and futures electricity market of APX-ENDEX is then covered. We handle the most liquid year, which is 2008, of traded electricity futures contracts and we find that the market is in normal backwardation. Our regression analysis extents the Fama (J Monet Econ 1984;14:319–338) regressions and rejects the efficiency hypothesis. Our results indicate that the futures prices are not unbiased predictors of the future spot prices. Remarkably, the difference between the spot and futures prices is associated with the risk premium and the change in spot prices, supports the arbitrage and speculation opportunities in the market.

The electricity market, day-ahead market and futures market

This book analyses how socially responsible investments as well as the rising importance of Islamic finance are linked to the shift towards renewable energy. Academics and practitioners in the field take a global perspective and present case studies from several countries. The book is divided into three parts: The first part sheds new light on the energy shift towards renewable energy. The second shows the increasing interest of investors in sustainability, and the authors argue that investors not only look at expected returns and risks, but also at social returns. Finally, the third part explains the need for social returns in Islamic finance, which cannot be explained by traditional finance theory. This is the fifth volume in a series on energy organized by the Centre for Energy and Value Issues (CEVI).

Energy and finance: Sustainability in the energy industry

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