Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Key Players in the energy game
- Consumers
- Often highly price sensitive
- Can exert pressure of governments
- Population growth leads to increased demand
- Industrialisation increasing demand
- Continuously requiring more and more energy
- Can be greatly effected by disputes
- Governments
- Facilitate responsible development
and production of energy resources
- Establish marketplace rules with long-term clarity
- Ensure externalities causing economic harm to society are fully internalised into market pricing
- Promote full disclosure and transparency of information to all market participants to help in making optimal decisions
- Privatize public sector assets in
competitive market sectors, and
hod assets in non-competitive
segments to eliminate the
possibility of exploitation by
for-profit monopolists
- Provide tax credits for pre-commercial
research on new energy technologies
to spur further innovation
- NICs, e.g. China
- Major consumers
- NICs such as China
are beginning to flex
their muscles in the
global energy arena
- In particular China as its
rapid industrialisation and
voracious demand for
energy have turned it from a
net exporter to a net importer
- Oil-producing countries outside
OPEC e.g. USA, Russia & Mexico
- Most important players
- Countries are dependent on them
- Can cause wide disruption if they cut supply
- Essentially 'call the shots'
- Have to increase
production to meet
demand
- Very
secure
- Petrodollar economy growing due to an increasing demand