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Papers by Daniel H Bouille

World Development, Apr 1, 1990

This paper reports on a major research effort to develop a method to analyze the electricity need... more This paper reports on a major research effort to develop a method to analyze the electricity needs of poor rural people and to determine the least-cost option for meeting these needs. The method has two particular features: first. it allows consideration of the full range of "conventional and nonconventional" technical options that are possible given the actual natural resource endowment of the region and its technological capabilities. Second, it provides practical methods for determining the electricity requirements of a range of end uses for a number of different income groups in specific geographical locations. The method not only makes it possible to identify the least-cost option for each geographical location. but it also provides a wide range of economic information (including the macroeconomic effects) which is often required by policy makers. In particular, it allows quantitative estimates to be made of the impacts of electricity investment on a number of other key variables such as employment, the development of local industrial sectors. and the use of foreign exchange. The method is applied to the specific case of the electricity needs of the rural population of Obera and Cainguas departments in the province of Misiones. Argentina. The complete set of results is reported elsewhere (IDEE, 1988). The purpose of this article is to summarize the method developed and the results obtained in Misiones.

RePEc: Research Papers in Economics, Mar 1, 1999

Elsevier eBooks, 2020

Abstract Despite being a developing region, energy access has improved in Latin American region i... more Abstract Despite being a developing region, energy access has improved in Latin American region in the last years. However, energy access in general, as well as access to modern and clean energy sources for cooking, is still a matter of concern in some countries particularly in rural areas. Additionally, MSW disposal is still a matter of concern in the several municipalities of the region. In this context, WtE can be an interesting option for the region. This chapter presents a brief resume of current best practices of MSW disposal in some Latin American countries: Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, and Mexico, as well as the perspectives for WtE technologies in the region. Empirical evidence shows that landfills are the most common practices for MSW disposal in the region, and in many cases with power production from biogas. A few experiences show the production of biomethane from biogas upgrade and injected into natural gas grid.

Oil, Gas & Energy Law Journal, 2004

Economics, 2019

Green fiscal reforms would contribute to climate change mitigation, increase the economic efficie... more Green fiscal reforms would contribute to climate change mitigation, increase the economic efficiency of national tax systems and provide additional public revenues. Some countries in Latin America have already taken first steps towards green fiscal reforms. This outlook article provides an overview of the major challenges for the successful implementation of such reforms and discusses how they could be overcome.

In recent decades, renewable energies have become increasingly important at the global level, wit... more In recent decades, renewable energies have become increasingly important at the global level, with a significant impact on the sustainable development of various nations. Although multiple papers have examined the efficiency of policies and instruments to promote renewable energy sources, the majority have disregarded the fact that the context in which policies are implemented determines how well they perform. This paper analyzes renewable energy development in the electricity market in Argentina, paying special mind to the contextual conditions in which the policies were designed and finding that in recent history, it is precisely these conditions that constitute the main reason why renewable energies have such a low degree of penetration in the electrical power system in Argentina. Keywords: Argentina, renewable energy, electricity sector, sustainable development, public policy. INTRODUCTION Promoting new renewable energy sources (RES) has become one of the top items on the sustai...

Problemas del Desarrollo, 2015

En las últimas décadas las energías renovables han cobrado impulso a nivel mundial con un signifi... more En las últimas décadas las energías renovables han cobrado impulso a nivel mundial con un significativo impacto sobre el desarrollo sustentable de las naciones. Si bien diferentes trabajos analizan la eficiencia de políticas e instrumentos para la promoción de dichas fuentes, la mayoría de las veces se deja de lado el análisis de cómo el contexto en el cual las políticas son implementadas determina su performance. En este trabajo se analiza el desarrollo de las energías renovables en el mercado eléctrico argentino prestando especial atención a las condiciones de entorno al momento del diseño de las políticas, encontrándose que en la historia reciente han sido precisamente estas condiciones los principales motivos del bajo grado de penetración de las energías renovables en el sistema eléctrico argentino.

World Development, 1990

The Energy and Economy Secretariat passes Resolution Nº 475 calling for the development of enviro... more The Energy and Economy Secretariat passes Resolution Nº 475 calling for the development of environmental norms and regulations for the energy sector. 1987 Government issues official environmental management handbook for hydroelectric projects. 1988 Government issues official environmental management handbook for high tension transmission lines. 1988-89 Electricity supply crisis. 1989 New presidency assumes executive branch (Menem administration). 1989 Law Nº 23696 on state reform establishes the basis for privatization of all state-owned companies. 1990 Government issues official environmental management handbook for conventional central thermo-electric generating plants. 1990 Electrification rates reach 91.2% 1991 Laws related to emergency economic reforms and currency convertibility gain passage. 1991 The World Bank grants the Government of Argentina a $300 million loan to assist in the restructuring and privatization of state companies in the telecommunications, railroad, and fossil fuel sectors. This loan included funds to assist with privatization in other sectors. 1991 Decree Nº 634 issued on the reconversion of the electric power sector. This decree establishes a wholesale market, defines final consumers, and unbundles generation, transmission and distribution functions. 1992 Law Nº 24065, Regulatory Framework for the Electric Power Sector, comes into force and assigns normative responsibilities to the Secretary of Energy. These responsibilities include environmental enforcement, application of environmental management handbooks, establishing emission limits for thermal generating plants. 1992 Law Nº 24076. Regulatory Framework for the Natural Gas Sector, achieves passage (the result of a fraudulent vote in the lower house of the Argentine Congress, the House of Deputies). 1992 Resolution Nº 61, Organization of the Electric System, defines private agents, and procedures for the function of the electric market. 1992-93 Federally owned thermal generating plants privatized. 1992 Distribution companies under federal jurisdiction are privatized. Distribution concessions eliminate subsidies. 1992 The National Electricity Regulator (ENRE) is created to protect consumer interests. Environmental regulation is assigned to public security entities required to enforce specific regulations and apply penalties (articles 77 and 78) 1993 ENRE begins to function post-privatization. 1993 Elimination of daylight savings time permits a return to the rational use of solar light in place of electric lighting. 1993-2000 Privatization of provincial distribution companies. 1993-97 Concessions awarded for hydroelectric plants. 1993-97 Creation and awarding of concessions to transmission companies. 1994 As a result of negotiations between ENRE, the federal government, the Province of Buenos Aires, and the distribution companies EDENOR and EDESUR, Resolution Nº 6, "Framework Agreement," is adopted that establishes a four-year time period for reductions of irregular consumption. Approximately 300,000 consumers were brought formally into the grid system. 1994 Resolution 159/94 issued by the Secretary for Energía creates a regime for large consumers (those consuming between 100 kW and 2 MW) allowing them to purchase electricity directly from generators. 1997-98 The PAEPRA Program to supply electricity to isolated rural areas is designed and receives the support of the IDB, GEF and World Bank. This program has not yet been implemented. 1998 A resolution is issued by the Secretary for Energy that reduces the floor of what constitutes a large consumer (to 50 kW) and allows them to establish defined supply contracts with a generator. 1999 A large electricity blackout in EDESUR's distribution concession affects more than 500,000 in the federal capital, in some cases for over 10 days. 2000 Transmission connections are established with Brazil and agreements are finalized to permit the export of 1,000 MW.

Genomic islands are genomic fragments of alien origin in bacterial and archaeal genomes, usually ... more Genomic islands are genomic fragments of alien origin in bacterial and archaeal genomes, usually involved in symbiosis or pathogenesis. In this work, we described Zisland Explorer, a novel tool to predict genomic islands based on the segmental cumulative GC profile. Zisland Explorer was designed with a novel strategy, as well as a combination of the homogeneity and heterogeneity of genomic sequences. While the sequence homogeneity reflects the composition consistence within each island, the heterogeneity measures the composition bias between an island and the core genome. The performance of Zisland Explorer was evaluated on the data sets of 11 different organisms. Our results suggested that the true-positive rate (TPR) of Zisland Explorer was at least 10.3% higher than that of four other widely used tools. On the other hand, the new tool did not lose overall accuracy with the improvement in the TPR and showed better equilibrium among various evaluation indexes. Also, Zisland Explorer showed better accuracy in the prediction of experimental island data. Overall, the tool provides an alternative solution over other tools, which expands the field of island prediction and offers a supplement to increase the performance of the distinct predicting strategy. We have provided a web service as well as a graphical user interface and open-source code across multiple platforms for Zisland Explorer, which is available at

2.3 Ámbitos a tomar en cuenta para el análisis de las políticas de biocombustibles y su vinculaci... more 2.3 Ámbitos a tomar en cuenta para el análisis de las políticas de biocombustibles y su vinculación con las dimensiones de desarrollo sustentable.

This chapter does not aim to be prescriptive in policy making, but seeks to introduce the challen... more This chapter does not aim to be prescriptive in policy making, but seeks to introduce the challenges, conditions, and key issues that should be taken into account in the quest for a policy on access to modern forms of energy.

Barriers, Opportunities, and Market Potential of Technologies and Practices 5 † Professor David H... more Barriers, Opportunities, and Market Potential of Technologies and Practices 5 † Professor David Hall, a close colleague, passed away in August 1999. He inspired us all through his vigorous support for bioenergy, and its just uses in the developing world. CONTENTS The transfer of technologies and practices that have the potential to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is often hampered by barriers 1 that slow their penetration. The opportunity 2 to mitigate GHG concentrations by removing or modifying barriers to the spread of technology may be viewed within a framework of different potentials for GHG mitigation (Figure 5.1). The " market potential " indicates the amount of GHG mit-igation that might be achieved under forecast market conditions , with no changes in policy or implementation of measures whose primary purpose is the mitigation of GHGs. The market potential can be close to zero as a result of extreme poverty, absence of markets, and remoteness of communities. The inability of the poor or isolated communities to access modern energy services reflects this situation. Because interventions to address poverty fall outside the immediate scope of this chapter , they receive only limited treatment here despite the intrinsic general importance of the subject. In addition to the market potential, there is also the economic potential and the socioeconomic potential to be considered. Eliminating imperfections of markets, public policies, and other institutions that inhibit the diffusion of technologies that are (or are projected to be) cost-effective for consumers (evaluated using consumers' private rate of time discounting and prices) without reference to any GHG benefits they may generate would increase GHG mitigation to the level defined as the " economic potential ". The " socioeconomic " potential consists of barriers derived from people's individual habits, attitudes and social norms, and vested interests in the diffusion of new technology. This potential represents the level of GHG mitigation that would be achieved if technologies that are cost effective from a societal perspective are implemented. Finally, some technologies might not be widely used simply because they are too expensive from a societal perspective. This leads to the level of the " technical potential " , which can be improved upon by solving scientific and technological problems. Policies to overcome this category of barriers must be aimed at fostering research and development (R&D). Technological and social innovation is a complex process of research, experimentation, learning, and development that can …

Toward a Sustainable Future

Global Energy Assessment (GEA)

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