Council – was reached after a long-lasting discourse over the 2030 EU climate and energy policy package. This paper offers a … final energy consumption, and improved energy efficiency. We find that the renewable and energy-efficiency targets have been …

interventions on final-use energy consumption, an important driver of carbon emissions. In the model, energy demand is driven by … directed technical change. Energy supply is subject to increasing extraction costs. The model is consistent with aggregate … evidence on energy use, efficiency, and prices in the United States, as well as the standard balanced growth facts. I use the …

generation that takes into account the variability and intermittency of renewable energy as well as storage. This work sheds … light on the extent to which variability and intermittency constitute a serious obstacle to energy transition and, given … transitioning to a clean energy mix, as well as the role climate policy can play in facilitating both the growth of renewables and …

-load technologies competes against a fringe of renewable energy (RE) generators. The optimal technology and electricity mix can be … decentralised by levying technology-dependent capacity taxes/subsidies in addition to technology-/state-dependent emission taxes …

Climate policies to keep global warming below 2℃ might render some of the world's fossil fuels and related … infrastructure worthless prior to the end of their economic life time. Therefore, some energy-sector assets are at risk of becoming … valuation of energy utilities. We find that investors take stranded asset risk into consideration, but that they also expect a …