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Strategies for Coal and Electricity

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Strategic Planning in Nationalised Industries

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The most interesting and difficult policy problems in the energy industries are to be found in coal and electricity. Before discussing what should happen in the future I want to examine the developments that have taken place since the energy crisis of 1973. I shall throughout be primarily concerned with investment policy because it is here that the decisions may properly be described as strategic.

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Notes and References

  1. Monopolies and Mergers Commission, Central Electricity Generating Board (HMSO, 1981) p. 48.

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  2. Robert P. Greene and J. Michael Gallagher (eds), World Coal Study: Future Coal Prospects: Country and Regional Assessments ( Boston: Ballinger, 1980 ) p. 411.

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  6. Duncan Burn, Nuclear Power and the Energy Crisis ( London: Macmillan, 1978 ) p. 225.

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  7. Ray Long, Constraints on International Trade in Coal (IEA Coal Research, December 1982) pp. 33, 34.

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  8. Department of Energy, Proof of Evidence for the Sizewell ‘B’ Public Inquiry (October 1982) p. 3.

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  1. Richard Pryke
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John Grieve Smith (Senior Bursar of Robinson College)

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© 1984 John Grieve Smith and Economic and Social Research Council

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Pryke, R. (1984). Strategies for Coal and Electricity. In: Smith, J.G. (eds) Strategic Planning in Nationalised Industries. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07114-2_13

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