Entrepreneurship conditions: energy resources’ Prices and energy consumprion peculiarities in developed countries

Abstract

In the society man uses energy intensively, human being is completely dependent of energy resources he/she utilizes. Nowadays the society of consumption and production leads to a daily abundant use of available resources on earth. It turns into many forms, such as light, heat, electrical, mechanical, chemical and nuclear. At the end of 20th century, it was almost unanimously agreed, abundant use of these resources have a negative impact on the planet, like the global warming or the greenhouse effect. The reserves of fossil fuels started to show signs of extinction. Due to indicated reasons, the development of many renewable energies have been started. Anyway, a question what energy composition or "mix" is the best, remains open. We raise hypothesis, that energy mix used by a country, depends on availability of particular resources and their prices. Hence, the paper is devoted to analysis of energy resources structure and their prices in four developed countries: France, Japan, USA and Germany. Insights about validity of raised hypothesis are being formulated.

Modeling Energy-Efficient Consumption at Industrial Enterprises

“…In the literature, there is an additional opportunity provided to structure and determine the qualitative features of the parameters for reducing energy intensity of a product, but in most cases, the evaluation is made only with respect to reducing the overall costs providing no opportunity to analyze the impact on the entire production cycle. A number of researchers believe that in the circumstances of a possible change of energy sources (Dezellus et al, 2015), the production cycle should be identified, which is a quite complicated task for some plants. Given that production can be subjected to modernization quite often, this viewpoint requires a more flexible approach to be implemented in the sphere of energy consumption.…”

Energy Security and Energy Efficiency Issues: Household Perspective in European Countries

“…Increasing demand of oil in Asia, Europe's dependency on gas and environmental degradation due to increase in energy use become problems under consideration. Hence energy availability represents the classical, or early characteristics of energy security, while affordability and acceptability may be conditionally called "new" characteristics, which are introduced in attempt to address contemporary issues of global development, such as increasing demand of energy, triggered by increasing population and respective increase of economic activities, and consequent environmental degradation (Dudzevičiūtė 2012;Tvaronavičienė 2012Tvaronavičienė , 2014Antanavičienė 2014;Balitskiy et al 2014;Balkytė, Tvaronavičienė 2010;Bilevičienė, Bilevičiūtė 2015;Caurkubule, Rubanovskis 2014;Corneliu, Tamošiūnienė 2015;Dezellus et al 2015;Lapinskienė et al 2014Lapinskienė et al , 2013Peker et al 2014;Rakauskienė 2014;Vosylius et al 2013;Tvaronavičienė et al 2014;Raudeliūnienė et al 2014;Jefremov, Rubanovskis 2015;Vasiliūnaitė 2014;Bistrova et al 2014;Borshchevska 2015).…”

The impact of regime-switching behaviour of price volatility on efficiency of the US sovereign debt market

“…So, markets should follow a random walk in the short-term as stated by Malkiel (2003). Though these assumptions do not always reflect the real picture, since market participants in reality are affected by an array of factors, such as obvious structural changes of economy (Akhmadeev & Manakhov, 2015;Dezellus, Ferreira, Pereira, & Vasiliūnaitė, 2015;Dudzevičiūtė, Mačiulis, & Tvaronavičienė, 2014;Korsakienė & Tvaronavičienė, 2014;Oganisjana, Surikova, & Laizāns, 2015;Prause, 2015;Rezk, Ibrahim, Tvaronavičienė, Sakr, & Piccinetti, 2015;Shatrevich & Strautmane, 2015;Travkina & Tvaronavičienė, 2015;Tvaronavičienė & Černevičiūtė, 2015;Tvaronavičienė, Mačiulis, Lankauskienė, Raudeliūnienė, & Dzemyda, 2015;Wahl, 2015), economic growth mode, external and internal threats (Balitskiy, Bilan, & Strielkowski, 2014;Ignatavičius, Tvaronavičienė, & Piccinetti, 2015;Kalyugina, Strielkowski, Ushvitsky, & Astachova, 2015;Lankauskienė & Tvaronavičienė, 2012;Munteanu & Tamošiūnienė, 2015;Stasytytė, 2015), approaches towards innovations and decision-making patterns (Bistrova, Lace, & Tvaronavičienė, 2014;Čirjevskis, 2015;Dobele, Grinberga-Zalite, & Kelle, 2015;Lace, Natalja, & Rumbinaite, 2015;Mostenska & Bilan, 2015;Olaniyi & Reidolf, 2015;Rosha & Lace, 2015;Šimberová, Chvátalová, Kocmanová, Hornungová, & Pavláková Dočekalová, 2015;Slapikaitė, Tamošiūnienė, & Mackevičiūtė, 2015;Tvaronavičienė & Černevičiūtė, 2015;Tvaronavičie...…”