. Ultimately, producing electricity on this basis is among the most expensive greenhouse gas abatement options. …This article demonstrates that the large feed-in tariffs currently guaranteed for solar electricity in Germany … constitute a subsidization regime that, if extended to 2020, threatens to reach a level comparable to that of German hard coal …

paper demonstrates that such cost-free allocation, commonly called grandfathering, implies an increase in electricity prices … even when strong competition prevails on electricity markets. As our estimations for Germany¿s power sector show, these … heavily from the ETS-induced electricity price increases. We therefore argue that an abrupt transition to a complete …

these returns were particularly high in the years 2009 to 2011, when large subsidies for solar electricity coincided with … subsidies are borne by electricity consumers at large, not least poverty-endangered households. The resulting redistribution of …