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Closing wells : fossil exploration and abandonment in the energy transition
Van den Bijgaart, I. M.; Rodríguez Acosta, Mauricio Andrés - 2020
Despite ambitious climate goals and already substantial stocks of developed fossil energy reserves, development of new fossil energy reserves continues to be high. This raises concerns, as it reinforces the fossil industry’s opportunities and incentives to continue extraction, and may...
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Optimal carbon taxation and horizontal equity : a welfare theoretic approach with application to German household data
Hänsel, Martin C.; Franks, Max; Kalkuhl, Matthias; … - 2021
welfare maximizing tax structure. We calibrate the model to German household data and a 30 percent emission reduction goal … revenue via household-specific transfers is the first-best policy. Equal per-capita transfers do not suffer from informational …
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Harnessing the wind : the impact of wind farm development on municipal finances
Serra-Sala, Claudia - 2024
Wind farm development, despite offering global benefits, often encounters local opposition fostered by local negative externalities and uncertain benefits. This study investigates the financial impact of wind farm development on host municipalities using Spanish municipality-level budget data...
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Going offshore : investments in German wind energy under uncertainty
Chen, Yu-Fu; Funke, Michael - 2015
energy deployment. The numerical results reveal that the long term subsidies in Germany set prices that provide higher …
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The optimal energy mix in power generation and the contribution from natural gas in reducing carbon emissions to 2030 and beyond
Carraro, Carlo; Tavoni, Massimo; Longden, Thomas; … - 2013 - First Draft: September 2013
This paper analyses a set of new scenarios for energy markets in Europe to evaluate the consistency of economic incentives and climate objectives. It focuses in particular on the role of natural gas across a range of climate policy scenarios (including the Copenhagen Pledges and the EU Roadmap)...
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The transition to renewable energy
Mason, Charles F.; Chassé, Rémi Morin - 2018
The existing economics literature neglects the important role of capacity in the production of renewable energy. To fiill this gap, we construct a model in which renewable energy production is tied to renewable energy capacity, which then becomes a form of capital. This capacity capital can be...
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Achieving sustainable energy security : 2030 outlook for ASEAN, People Republic of China and India
Fan, Ying; Bhattacharyay, Biswanath - 2015
The rapid growth of ASEAN economies, the People's Republic of China and India (called ACI henceforth) - major drivers of Asia and the world economy - during the last five decades has caused significant strains on their scarce resources, particularly energy and contributed to serious problems of...
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Microeconomics of the rebound effect for residential solar photovoltaic systems
Oliver, Matthew E.; Moreno Cruz, Juan; Beppler, Ross C. - 2019
improvement in the energy efficiency of a household's appliances, but to the supply of a zero-marginal-cost perfect substitute for …
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Solar rebound : the unintended consequences of subsidies
Boccard, Nicolas; Gautier, Axel - 2019
Many jurisdictions use net metering to record the power exchange between solar photovoltaic panels and the grid, thus valuing home production at the electricity retail rate. However, if over the billing period, production exceeds consumption, the surplus remains freely available for consumption....
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A life-cycle theory analysis of french household electricity demand
Belaïd, Fateh; Rault, Christophe; Massié, Camille - 2021
This paper develops a pseudo-panel approach to examine household electricity demand behaviour through the household … electricity consumption follows an inverted U-shaped distribution as a function of the age of the household's head. Most notably … outcome has important implications for policy-making. Any public policy aimed at reducing household energy consumption should …
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