Essays about: "liberalized market"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 22 essays containing the words liberalized market.

  1. 11. Consumer Behaviour in Renewable Electricity : Can identity signaling increase demand for renewable electricity?

    University essay from Institutionen för geovetenskaper

    Author : Raphael Hanimann; [2013]
    Keywords : Renewable Electricity; Identity Signaling; Consumer Behaviour; Sustainable Development; Marketing;

    Abstract :  A higher percentage of energy from renewable resources is an important goal on many sustainable development agendas. In liberalized electricity markets, an increase in demand for renewable electricity can stimulate further investments in it, yet demand for renewable electricity has developed much slower than demand for other green products. READ MORE

  2. 12. Social Partners’ Responses to Employment of Migrant Workers in the course of the ‘Lisbon Strategy’ and the ‘Europe 2020’ : Has there been any change in the social partners’ responses from the Lisbon to the EU2020? The case studies in Sweden, the UK and at European level

    University essay from Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Jihee Han; [2013]
    Keywords : Lisbon Strategy; Europe 2020; Social partners; migrant workers; Sweden; the UK;

    Abstract : The research is aimed at investigating how the common EU social and economic strategies, namely the 'Lisbon strategy' and the 'EU 2020', have been influential as a 'EU incentive' in European social partners having drawn the matter of employment of migrant workers both at Member state level and at European level by looking into their respective changes in responses towards the matter in the course of the two strategies. The research has found that there have been changes made in the European social partners' responses regarding the problematic matter of migrant workers' employment, namely precarious working conditions and lower employment rates than native workers, at all levels. READ MORE

  3. 13. The Short-Run Security-Constrained Economic Dispatch

    University essay from KTH/Elektriska energisystem

    Author : Olga Galland; [2012]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : In liberalized electricity markets, the outputs of controllable units (both generatorsand demands) must be defined at regular time intervals ("dispatch intervals"). Nowadays,balancing services are procured and dispatched not in the most efficient waypartly due to long dispatch intervals. The dispatch interval in most European countriesis one hour. READ MORE

  4. 14. Organization and Control of A local Market Based Concept towards Onsite Distributed Energy Resource Based Electricity Supply in Urban Swedish Residential Buildings

    University essay from KTH/Industriella informations- och styrsystem

    Author : Aquil Amir Jalia; [2011]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : The concept of ‘prosumers’: of promoting consumers of electricity with a joint generation role has led to an unprecedented increase in attention for exploring distributed generation from a systems perspective. Amongst these, households occupy a significant proportion of the end use electricity consumption in most developed countries. READ MORE

  5. 15. Far ahead and beyond European Union liberalization policy : The case of the postal services in Sweden

    University essay from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola/Sektionen för management

    Author : Rocio Concepcion Duran Rodriguez; [2010]
    Keywords : Liberalization of postal service; Postal Service in Sweden; Posten AB.;

    Abstract : European postal market has been challenged by changes in services that have questioned traditional postal service monopolies. The postal monopolies had evident lack of competitiveness, were not customer oriented, services were poor and unreliable. READ MORE