The European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) has imposed a price on the allowances for CO2 emissions of electricity companies. Integrating this allowance price into the price of electricity earns a rent for companies who have received these allowances for free. During Phase I,...

This paper aims to compare how two countries are facing the challenges of energy security of supply. Mexico, a member of NAFTA and a neighbour of the United States, has oil resources and is thinking how to answer to the increasing energy demand. France, one of the 27 member states of the...

Une problématique qui se pose dès lors que certaines activités électriques sont ouvertes à la concurrence est le pouvoir de marché. Le passage des prix régulés à des prix concurrentiels accroît les possibilités de manipulation des prix par les entreprises. Cet article est centré sur...

Le gouvernement Lula a annoncé un nouveau projet de réformes de l'industrie électrique fin 2003 bien que celles engagées par le précédent gouvernement ne soient pas achevées. Ce nouveau modèle repose sur une intervention très forte des autorités notamment en matière d'investissement...

Ce rapport est consacré à l'analyse économique des marchés français et européen de l'électricité et du gaz naturel. Dans la première partie du rapport, les auteurs présentent le contexte énergétique mondial avec la place prise par les problèmes environnementaux dans l'utilisation de...

The debate over a common European energy policy, its necessity and its establishment has been going on for a number of decades. The discussions have been recently brought back into the spotlight by the evolution of energy market fundamentals and the taking into account of environmental...

The EU ETS has been criticised for threatening the competitiveness of European industry and generating carbon leakage, i.e., increasing foreign greenhouse gas emissions. Two main options have been put forward to tackle these concerns : border adjustments and output-based allocation, i.e.,...

In the wake of the Copenhagen Conference and the outstanding issue of shaping climate change mitigation for the period beyond that covered by the Kyoto protocol, this paper puts into context the various economic instruments available fot tackling climate change, and highlights the emergence, as...

The paper will discuss the possibilities of the development of nuclear energy in the world in the midterm and long term. It will correlate the prospects with the emissions of CO2 and the effects on climate change. In particular it will discuss the problems nuclear energy face to make a large...