policies to provide revenue for the sale of electricity generated from captured methane gas. Individually, any of these …

regional, mandatory, market-based cap-and-trade program to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the electricity sector …. The initiative is expected to lead to an increase in the price of electricity in the RGGI region and beyond. The … implications of these changes for the value of electricity-generating assets and the market value of the firms that own them …

Policies to cap emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the U.S. economy could pose significant costs on the electricity … electricity sector, we evaluate alternative ways that emission allowances can be allocated. Most previous emissions trading … programs have allocated the major portion of allowances for free to incumbent firms. In the electricity sector this approach …

current emitters on the basis of a historic measure of electricity generation in an approach known as grandfathering. Recent … some performance metric in a recent year (the share of electricity generation or something else) and auctioning allowances … such as electricity price, the mix of generation technologies, and the emissions of conventional pollutants inside and …