[Introduction] With the goal of limiting the rise in global temperature to two degrees relative to preindustrial levels, the global community agreed to try to halve GHG emissions (vis-à-vis the level in 1990) by 2050. In order to achieve this ambitious target, developed countries ought to...

[Zusammenfassung - Einleitung] Die auf europäischer Ebene, in Deutschland als auch in vielen Bundesländern, Städten, Gemeinden, Quartieren und kleineren Einheiten vereinbarten Ziele zu Klimaneutralität, Dekarbonisierung, Teilhabe und andere führen zu einer Vollversorgung mit erneuerbaren...

The German decision to finally phase-out nuclear electricity has led to a debate on its effects on electricity prices, emission prices in the European emission trading system, as well as on international electricity trade. We investigate these effects with a Electricity market model for Europe...

We use a quantitative electricity market model to analyze the welfare effects of refunding a share of the emission trading proceeds to support renewable energy technologies that are subject to experience effects. We compare effects of supporting renewable energies under both perfect and...