Who pays for renewables? Increasing renewable subsidisation due to increased datacentre demand in Ireland

Demand from datacentres makes up a rapidly growing portion of electricity demand in Ireland. Increased demand in turn gives rise to increased renewable generation, mandated by government targets, and a corresponding increase in subsidisation levels. The current method of apportioning renewable subsidy costs may lead to consumers other than datacentres bearing this excess cost of subsidisation. This letter calculates the expected impact on these consumers.

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Year of publication:	2017
Authors:	Lynch, Muireann Á. ; Devine, Mel T.
Publisher:	Dublin : The Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI)
Subject:	Capacity markets \| Reliability \| Mixed complementarity problem \| Stochastic modelling

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Series:	ESRI Working Paper ; 566
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	890863113 [GVK] hdl:10419/174299 [Handle] RePEc:esr:wpaper:wp566 [RePEc]
Classification:	Q4 - Energy ; D43 - Oligopoly and Other Forms of Market Imperfection ; d47 ; L13 - Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets ; C61 - Optimization Techniques; Programming Models; Dynamic Analysis
Source:	EconStor

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