Price Support Schemes in the Service of the EU’s Low-Carbon Energy Transition

This contribution examines the generation-based support schemes for renewable energy sources. It investigates the design choices that Member States have made so far and the stance that the Commission has adopted on these choices. Moreover, it provides a taxonomy of different support schemes and calls attention to the category of price instruments. Accordingly, it analyses the position of price support schemes within the new legal framework (Directive 2018/2001, 'RED II'), which adopts a rather pro-quantity instruments stance