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2、018 North America Editorial 20 1-Climate Challenges however, its full potential is hindered by lack of clarity around regulations and business models .104 Topic Box 3.1: Capacity mechanisms .115 Topic Box 4.1: Beyond energy retail prices .130 Topic Box 4.2: Will regulated energy tariffs disappear? .
3、133 Topic Box 6.1: In a more challenging environment, Utilities are implementing new investment strategies towards services and low carbon energy .151 Southeast Asia Topic Box 1.1: Government and private sector initiatives to reduce emissions challenges .165 Topic Box 3.1: Singapore is being develop
4、ed as a gas hub .179 Topic Box 3.2: Issues and Challenges for Regional Power Cooperation .180 Topic Box 4.1: Case studies Singapore, Philippines this represents an increase of nearly 100% since January 2016. Four factors in particular came into play: Supply and demand: the booming world economy has
5、led to a demand increase of more than 5Mb/d1 since 2015 with global oil consumption expected to top 100Mb/d by the end of 2018. World oil demand rose by 1.6% (or 1.5 Mb/d) in 2017, a rate that was higher than the annual average of 1% seen over the last decade. Inventories of crude that had built up
6、during the 2014-2016 glut have decreased because of this strong demand and the supply cuts by OPEC/Russia. OPEC and Russia: in late 2016 an agreement was reached to limit their supplies in order to push up the oil price. This deal has removed at least 1.8 Mb/d since the start of 2017. Despite Americ