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Market Power Rents and Climate Change Mitigation: A Rationale for Coal Taxes?
Richter, Philipp M.; Mendelevitch, Roman; Jotzo, Frank - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2015
In this paper we investigate the introduction of an export tax on steam coal levied by an individual country (Australia), or a group of major exporting countries. The policy motivation would be twofold: generating tax revenues against the background of improved terms-of-trade, while CO2...
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How Emission Certificate Allocations Distort Fossil Investments: The German Example
Pahle, Michael; Fan, Lin; Schill, Wolf-Peter - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
Despite political activities to foster a low-carbon energy transition, Germany currently sees a considerable number of new coal power plants being added to its power mix. There are several possible drivers for this "dash for coal", but it is widely accepted that windfall profits gained through...
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Assessing the Strength and Effectiveness of Renewable Electricity Feed-in Tariffs in European Union Countries
Groba, Felix; Indvik, Joe; Jenner, Steffen - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
popular policies for supporting renewable electricity (RES-E) generation in the developed world. A few studies have assessed … for FIT strength that captures variability in tariff size, contract duration, digression rate, electricity price, and … electricity generation cost to estimate the resulting return on investment. We then regress this indicator on added RES-E capacity …
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Responsive Adjustment of Feed-in Tariffs to Dynamic PV Technology Development
Grau, Thilo - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012
This paper reviews the adjustments of the feed-in tariff for new solar photovoltaics (PV) installations in Germany. As PV system prices declined rapidly over the last years, the German government implemented automatic mechanisms to adjust the support level for new installations in response to...
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Policy Efforts for the Development of Storage Technologies in the U.S. and Germany
Borden, Eric; Schill, Wolf-Peter - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013
Recent developments in electricity markets such as the increased deployment of variable renewable generation have …
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Residual Load, Renewable Surplus Generation and Storage Requirements in Germany
Schill, Wolf-Peter - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013
We examine the effects of future renewable expansion in Germany on residual load and renewable surplus generation for policy-relevant scenarios for 2022, 2032 and 2050. We also determine the storage capacities required for taking up renewable surpluses for varying levels of accepted curtailment....
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Comparison of Feed-in Tariffs and Tenders to Remunerate Solar Power Generation
Grau, Thilo - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014
This paper analyzes the trade-offs for using feed-in tariffs or tenders to remunerate different scales of solar photovoltaics (PV) projects. In recent years, European countries increasingly combined feed-in tariffs for small renewables systems with tenders for large installations. This study...
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Chinese Renewable Energy Technology Exports: The Role of Policy, Innovation and Markets
Cao, Jing; Groba, Felix - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013
in renewable electricity generation as well as increasing renewable energy innovation and foreign knowledge accumulation …
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Have State Renewable Portfolio Standards Really Worked?: Synthesizing Past Policy Assessments
Shrimali, Gireesh; Jenner, Steffen; Groba, Felix; Chan, … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012
renewable electricity (RES-E). While several econometric studies have estimated the effect of RPS on in-state RES-E deployment …
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Survey of Photovoltaic Industry and Policy in Germany and China
Grau, Thilo; Huo, Molin; Neuhoff, Karsten - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
As building-integrated photovoltaic (PV) solutions can meet around one-third of electricity demand in Germany and China …
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