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Type Journal Article
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title Energy security Coping with multiple supply risks
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Peter Zweifel
  • Susanne Bonomo
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Journal Title Energy Economics
Publisher Elsevier
Geographical Reach international
ISSN 0140-9883
Volume 17
Number 3
Page Range 179 - 183
Date 1995
Abstract Text This study starts from the observation that today's Western trading nations are exposed to multiple risks of energy supplies, eg simultaneous shortage of oil and gas supplies. To cope with these risks, both oil and gas can be stockpiled. Adopting the viewpoint of a policy maker who aims at minimizing the expected cost of security of supply, optimal simultaneous adjustments of oil and gas stocks to exogenous changes such as an increase in the probability of supply disruption are derived. Against this benchmark, one-dimensional rules such as ‘oil reserves for 90 days’ turn out to be not only suboptimal but also to suggest adjustments exacerbating suboptimality.
Digital Object Identifier 10.1016/0140-9883(95)00018-P
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