Pontoni, Federico; Goltara, Andrea; Carli, Alessandro De; … - In: ECONOMICS AND POLICY OF ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT 2014/2 (2014) 2, pp. 137-152
This paper discusses the case for reforming the actual mechanism for charging water abstractions for hydropower production in Italy and proposes to introduce a performance-based environmental fee. This should be able, on the one hand, to internalize the environmental costs that hydropower...