Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0
Author-Name:Gordeev Dmitry
Author-Name-First: Dmitry 
Author-Name-Last:Gordeev 
Author-Workplace-Name: Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy 
Title: INTER-FUEL COMPETITION IN ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION: COAL OR NATURAL GAS
Abstract: One of the most disputable aspects of Russia’s energy markets reform is the feasibility of achieving grid parity between different energy sources, of their socalled inter-fuel compe  on level indices. Thus, in particular, one of the possible future components of the Russian market for natural gas can be the inter-fuel compe  on level reached by natural gas and coal in electric power generation. The results of a simplified analysis of current electric energy gen era on costs demonstrate that at present, natural gas has a huge competitive advantage over coal in electric power genera on. At the same  me, medium-term moderate growth of prices of natural gas in the domes c market will not result in a switchover, by electric power producers, from natural gas to coal.
Classification-JEL: L71, L72
Keywords:  Oil and Gas, Russian Economy
Year: 2016
Issue:4
Month: April
Pages: 45-49
File-URL: https://iep.ru/files/RePEc/gai/recdev/recdev-2016-4-600.pdf
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File-Function: Revised version, 2016
Handle: RePEc:gai:recdev:recdev-2016-4-600