Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Karl, Hans-Dieter

Titel

ESTIMATION OF PRODUCTION COSTS FOR ENERGY RESOURCES

Ist Teil von

• CESifo forum, 2010, Vol.11 (4), p.63

Ort / Verlag

München: Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (Ifo)

Erscheinungsjahr

2010

Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The use of fossil fuels largely depends on the costs of making these fuels available. Among these costs, the production expenses, which are influenced by numerous factors, are of prime importance. The aim of this study is to determine the unit costs of production from the currently used deposits and to estimate the unit costs of production from deposits that will be tapped in future. An exact definition of production costs is exceedingly difficult to make. Therefore, the average production costs for mineral oil, natural gas and black coal determined in this study must be seen as approximations of reality. For the determination of the production costs of currently used deposits and for the estimates of the costs of future deposits, recourse is made primarily to existing studies and estimates in the literature. [PUB ABSTRACT]