Institutional change in European natural gas markets and implications for energy security: Lessons from the German case
Institutional change in European natural gas markets and implications for energy security: Lessons from the German case
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DOI：
10.1016/j.enpol.2014.08.032
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发表时间：
2014-11
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9
通讯作者：
Kirsten Westphal
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作者：
Kirsten Westphal
本文重点介绍了欧盟内部市场和气候政策驱动下的德国天然气市场的制度变迁。它认为，制度变革对能源安全具有功能外部性。德国天然气市场提供了一个有用的案例研究，因为德国是大陆上最大的天然气市场，是一个主要的枢纽和运输国家，其天然气事业在很大程度上已经私有化、分拆和分离。过渡正在进行，倾向于内部市场。国际/国内天然气经济处于不断变化之中。制度的演变对公司和市场结构、制度的运作和交易的实现都有影响。体制框架的变化对能源安全产生重大影响，而能源安全往往与体制稳定有关。在此案例研究的基础上，本文认为，天然气供应的安全应重新审查的背景下，上述的发展，因为整体的天然气安全的制度变迁落后于欧盟的内部天然气市场的发展。
This article focuses on institutional change in the German gas market driven by EU internal market and climate policies. It argues that institutional change has functional externalities for energy security. The German gas market provides a useful case study, as Germany is the biggest continental gas market, a major hub and transport country which has largely privatised, unbundled and separated its natural gas undertakings. Transition is ongoing, tending towards an internal market. Inter/national natural gas economics is in flux. Institutional evolution has repercussions for corporate and market structures, the operating of the system and the realization of transactions. Changes in the institutional framework crucially affect energy security, which is often associated with institutional stability. On the basis of this case study, it is argued herein that the security of natural gas supplies should be reexamined in the context of the developments described above, since overall the institutional changes in natural gas security lag behind the EU’s internal natural gas market development.