Abstract
The most comprehensive intelligence report on global electricity markets
available today. The Electricity Markets Yearbook 2012 is available now,
providing global, regional and key country analysis and essential data on
infrastructures, key operators, scale and trends. This is the summation of our
access to hundreds of data sources and it will become your essential reference
for business planning now and for the future.
Almost 400 pages of detailed facts , figures and commentary covering every country including:
- Generating capacity
- Composition of the generating fleet
- Electrification
- Consumption of electricity
- Numbers of customers by end use
- Transmission and distribution
- Overhead lines and cables by voltage
- Power and distribution transformer capacity
- Interconnections
- The capacity cycle
- Import dependence
- Revenue and capex
- Utility landscape
- Pricing and regulation
- Renewables targets
- Energy losses
- Detailed profiles of 49 countries
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Table of Contents
1 Introduction
- 1.1 Introduction to the StatPlan Yearbook 2012
- 1.2 Additional Excel files
- 1.3 Special Analysis Available from StatPlan
- 1.4 Statement on Accuracy
- 1.5 Other Publications
2 Global Generating Capacity
- 2.1 The development of the global power sector
- 2.2 Generating capacity around the world
- 2.3 Net generation by energy source, by country, GWh
3 Composition of the Generating Fleet
- 3.1 Fuel Options
- Fossil fuels
- Nuclear
- Renewables
- 3.2 Technologies
- Conventional Coal-fired Steam
- Gas Turbines (GT)
- Nuclear Power
- Geothermal Power
- Solar Photovoltaic (PV)
- Solar Thermal - Concentrated Solar Power CSP
- Biomass-fired BFB
- Wave and Marine technologies
- 3.3 Power Plant Construction and Operating Cost
- Costing Methods
- Overnight cost
- LCOE (Levelised Cost of Electricity), Marginal Cost, LRMC (Long Run
Marginal Cost)
- Discount rate
- Externalities
- 3.4 Nuclear Power - Present and Future
- The current nuclear power sector
- The future of nuclear power
- Nuclear classifications
- Safety: INES International Nuclear Event Scale
- 3.5 Thermal Fuel
- 3.6 Renewables
- Intermittency, Capacity Factor and Capacity Credit
- Investment
- The Global Green Investment
- 3.7 Independent Power Producers (IPP) and Captive Power Producers (CPP)
- 3.8 Consumption against Generation
4 Electrification
- 4.1 Rates of electrification, total, urban/rural
- What do we mean by "electrification"?
- Access to gas and water
- Electrification dramatically improves quality of life
- Electrification in developing countries
- Expansion of the household power market
5 Consumption of Electricity
- 5.1 Global patterns
- 5.2 Europe
- 5.3 CIS
- 5.4 Middle East
- 5.5 Africa
- 5.6 Asia Pacific
- 5.7 North America
- 5.8 LAC
6 Transmission and Distribution
- 6.1 Transmission and Distribution
7 Interconnections
- 7.1 South America
- 7.2 Southeast Asia
- 7.3 The MEDRING and the GCC
- 7.4 The GCC Interconnector
- 7.5 Comparison of population and consumption of MEDRING countries
- 7.6 Comparison of generation, capacity and consumption of the Southern and
Eastern MEDRING countries
- Transmission system
- Trading Systems
- 7.7 Renewables in the Sahara
8 The Capacity Cycle: New Build and Replacement
- 8.1 Capacity
- 8.2 Capacity Building and Replacement Cycle
- 8.3 The Global Picture
- 8.3.1 United States
- 8.3.2 Europe
- 8.3.3 China
9 Energy Dependence
- Energy Dependence
- Sensible use of energy resource earnings
- OPEC countries should recognise that reserves are finite
- The world of energy is swiftly changing
- Energy Dependence by Energy Source
10 Technical Briefing
- 10.1 Defining Energy and Electricity
- Primary and secondary energy
- Load Factors
- LCOE (Levelised Cost of Electricity), Marginal Cost, LRMC (Long Run
Marginal Cost)
11 Revenue and Capex
- 11.1 Revenue
- 11.2 Cost breakdown
- 11.3 Capex
- 11.4 Ease of doing business
12 The Utility Landscape
- 12.1 Regional analysis of utility type, state-owned/private
- The vertically integrated utility (VI)
- Vertically integrated utilities together with commercially owned
companies
- The liberalised sector
- State ownership and private ownership
- 12.2 Numbers of utilities by regions and major countries
- Europe
- CIS
- Middle East
- Asia Pacific
- Africa
- South and South America
- North America
13 Pricing and Regulation
- 13.1 Electricity prices and tariffs
- 13.2 Regulation for major countries
- 13.3 Renewables, Policy Targets and Support Mechanisms
- Market Development
- Hydropower
- Wind Power
- Solar PV
- Concentrating Solar Thermal Power (CSP)
- Solar Hot Water Heating
- Biomass Power and Heat
- Biofuels
- Geothermal Power and Heat
- Ocean energy
- 13.4 National Renewables Targets
- Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS)
- Other Support Policies
14 Energy Loss
- 14.1 Generation, Transmission and Distribution Losses
- Europe
- CIS
- Middle East
- Asia Pacific
- North America
- Central and South America
15 Country Profiles
- 15.1 Europe
- Austria
- Belgium
- Bulgaria
- Czech Republic
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Italy
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Spain
- Sweden
- Turkey
- United Kingdom
- 15.2 CIS
- 15.3 Middle East
- 15.4 Asia
- China
- India
- Indonesia
- Japan
- South Korea
- Malaysia
- Philippines
- Taiwan
- Thailand
- Vietnam
- 15.5 Pacific
- 15.6 Africa
- Egypt
- Algeria
- Morocco
- Tunisia
- Nigeria
- South Africa
- 15.7 North America
- United States
- Canada
- Mexico
- 15.8 South America
- Argentina
- Brazil
- Chile
- Colombia
- Venezuela
16 Sources
- 16.1 List of Figures
- 16.2 17.1 List of Tables
