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Energy Infrastructures in the Eastern Bloc : Poland and the Construction of Transnational Electricity, Oil, and Gas Systems.
The present volume by Falk Flade describes the construction and operation of cross-border energy networks in Eastern Europe. It examines transnational electricity, oil, and gas transmission systems and their short- and long-term implications for Poland. Covering a time span of roughly 150 years betw...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Wiesbaden :
Harrassowitz Verlag,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Frankfurter Studien zur Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte Ostmitteleuropas ;
Bd. 26. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title pages; Content; Figures and tables; Abbreviations; Acknowledgement; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Prolog; 1.2 Object of study; 1.3 Literature overview; 1.4 Research questions and theses; 1.5 Methods and sources; 1.6 Theoretical approach; 1.6.1 Large Technological Systems; 1.6.2 Critical assessment; 1.6.3 Applied concepts; 1.7 Outline; 2 Energy infrastructures in pre-war Poland; 2.1 The heritage of the Galician oil industry; 2.2 Plans and endeavors in the 1920s; 2.3 The Central Industrial District; 2.4 Summary; 3 Initiating cross-border energy infrastructures; 3.1 Historical background.
- 3.1.1 Implementation of planned economies3.1.2 Modes of cooperation during post-war Stalinism; 3.1.3 The Marshall Plan and the foundation of the CMEA; 3.2 The beginning of cross-border cooperation; 3.2.1 The energy-hungry Hungarian aluminum industry; 3.2.2 Negotiating four-sided electricity deliveries; 3.2.3 The pricing debate; 3.3 The Standing Commission for Electric Energy; 3.3.1 GidroproektÊơs proposal; 3.3.2 TeploÄ#x97;lektroproektâ#x80;#x99;s proposal; 3.4 The electricity network Mir; 3.4.1 The Central Dispatching Organization; 3.4.2 The electricity hub Mukachevo.
- 3.4.3 Early plans for East-West electricity deliveries3.5 Summary; 4 The Druzhba oil pipeline; 4.1 Changing energy consumption in Eastern Europe; 4.1.1 The chemicalization campaign; 4.1.2 Oil import forecasts and the transport question; 4.2 Pipeline construction; 4.2.1 The planning procedure; 4.2.2 Construction work; 4.2.3 Western obstruction; 4.2.4 Consequences of the Druzhba pipeline; 4.3 Extending the pipeline network; 4.3.1 The second Druzhba pipeline; 4.3.2 Plans for additional in- and outlets; 4.4 Summary; 5 The So͡iuz gas pipeline; 5.1 The Complex Program.
- 5.2 So͡iuz as a flagship project?5.2.1 Posting of workforce; 5.2.2 Joint purchases of Western products; 5.2.3 The International Investment Bank; 5.2.4 Repercussions of the Polish debt crisis; 5.3 Further system growth without integration; 5.4 Summary; 6 Stagnation in the East European nuclear energy sector; 6.1 Impacts of the oil crises; 6.1.1 Excursus: the discussion about Soviet subsidization; 6.2 Ambitious plans for the electricity network Mir; 6.2.1 New institutions and agreements; 6.2.2 The General Scheme for the Long-Term Development of Mir.
- 6.2.3 Joint construction of the NPP KhmeÄℓnit Í¡ skiÄƯ6.3 The â#x80;#x9C;NPP Å»arnowiec under constructionâ#x80;#x9D;; 6.3.1 Initial plans for a Polish NPP; 6.3.2 Crumbling cross-border supply chains; 6.3.3 The Chernobyl disaster; 6.3.4 Growing counterculture; 6.3.5 The end of the â#x80;#x9C;NPP Å»arnowiec under constructionâ#x80;#x9D;; 6.4 Summary; 7 Impacts of changing institutional frameworks; 7.1 Electricity sector; 7.1.1 Transition from Mir to ENTSO-E; 7.1.2 Nuclear plans in Poland; 7.2 Gas sector; 7.2.1 Supply security versus transport autarky; 7.2.2 The post-socialist gas infrastructure; 7.3 Oil sector.