Author: bomuo

Electricity Strategies are sets of policies under the control of a government and other decision makers involved in making decisions about the supply of electricity or energy policy in general. These include decisions about the capacity of new generating plants and the types of fuel to be consumed; decisions about investments in supporting energy infrastructure, such as pipelines and LNG terminals; levels of mandated reserve generating capacity; rules setting minimum or maximum shares of generating capacity by fuel used; dispatch order of electricity generation; administrative controls on land use; policies to control GHG emission levels; policies regarding electricity pricing by segments; policies regarding subsidies offered; policies regarding desired offsets or trade-offs between security of supply, price and emission levels. The important issue is for decision makers to understand what the trade-offs are and what drives the differences between strategies, so that in the final analysis policy course will result from political processes and discourses and political trade-offs. A decision about priorities among different criteria, such as cost versus the depletion of indigenous natural gas supplies (namely where domestic depletion or cost is less of a concern. If cost is less of a concern then Israel can focus more on LNG)