Notwithstanding the three existing studies and the alarming messages from the CREG, the federal energy regulator, on the risk of shortages in electricity production in Belgium, the federal governemental parties decided to launch another study on the nuclear phase-out, as foreseen by the Act of 2003.
In the competent commission of the Belgian parliament, representatives recently questioned the minister of Climate en Energy on his statements that the phase-out might be postponed.
The minister responded that given the variety of existing studies and the discrepancies in the conclusions, there is a need for a new, "impartial" commission to look at the nuclear question. Since most researchers in Belgium are (in)directly connected to stakeholders, the minister wants to liaise with foreign researchers.
Tuesday 15 April 2008
Nuclear phase out in Belgium
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I would like an example of this kind of oursourcing research in the energy sector.
With regard to gas liberalization, South Korea faced this issue in 90's. Therefore, the government oursourced the research re gas liberalization to a famous US accountant office (Arthur Anderson). There were several very dramatic suggestions provided by the final report, such as the ownership unbundling of KOGAS(national Korean Gas Company) and even spliting the production sector into three or four sections.
However, the Enron scandal of this accountant company (Anderson) gave the employee of the KOGAS a good reason to reject the idea proposed by this research.
Such a fighting back makes gas liberalization impossible in the near future.
Just provide a Asian story in gas liberalization. :-)
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