The mainstream community of energy experts is not aware of the long-term impacts that carbon policies directly concerned with promoting the development of low-carbon technologies produce on the electricity market regime. Long-term market coordination should be replaced by public coordination...

[fre] Le modèle des marchés électriques décentralisés présente plusieurs défaillances de marché dans l’articulation des décisions de court terme et de long terme. Il ne permet pas d’orienter correctement les investissements en équipements capitalistiques tant de pointe que de base...

The paper investigates how proposed reforms on policies to maintain generation adequacy and to encourage clean technology investments in a number of European countries, modify the role of the market. This is reduced as the government, regulator and system operator take on explicit responsibility...

Le CIRED a organisé un colloque le jeudi 20 mars 2014 à l'auditorium du CNRS. Cet événement a été produit dans le cadre du projet de recherche européen R&Dialogue, en association avec le laboratoire PACTE (U. Grenoble-CNRS) et avec le soutien de l'INSHS et de l'INSIS du CNRS. Ce document...

This book focuses on the diversity of electricity reforms in Western Europe, drawing evidence from ten European Union memberstates plus Norway and Switzerland as associate members. The contributors analyse the various ways of introducing competition in the European electricity industries, and...

Summary In countries with a significant amount of low variable cost generation capacity, the integration of electricity markets poses a real problem with respect to consumers' interests. In such cases, consumers face a significant price rise compared with consumers in countries where low-cost...