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, resulting in massive expenditures that show little long-term promise for stimulating the economy, protecting the environment, or …
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The diffusion of renewable electricity generating technologies is widely considered as crucial for establishing a … costs among all electricity consumers. This paper presents a novel history-friendly agent-based study aiming to explore the … is devoted to the possibility of small scale renewable electricity generation, but also to the storage of this …
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The pure model of replicator dynamics though providing important insights in the evolution of markets has not found much of empirical support. This paper extends the model to the case of firms vertically integrated in value chains. We show that i) by taking value chains into account, the...
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electricity generation technologies (wind, solar, biomass) after 2017. A strategic bidding model is used to determine the optimal …
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Renewable electricity plays an increasingly important role in the effort to reduce CO2 emissions in the electricity … sector. One of the major challenges that must be addressed is the fluctuating supply of renewable electricity. We explore the … impact of cross-border electricity transfers on both the security of electricity supply and renewable electricity expansion …
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The flexibilization of electricity demand and production becomes increasingly important in energy systems with rising … shares of fluctuating renewable electricity production. Power-to-heat and cogeneration units, combined with thermal storages … loads, electricity consumption and production. Based on a real-world case study, this paper explores the economic potentials …
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This article demonstrates that the large feed-in tariffs currently guaranteed for solar electricity in Germany … recommend the immediate and drastic reduction of the magnitude of the feed-in tariffs granted for solar-based electricity …. Ultimately, producing electricity on this basis is among the most expensive greenhouse gas abatement options. …
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, resulting in massive expenditures that show little long-term promise for stimulating the economy, protecting the environment, or …
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This article revisits an analysis by Frondel, Ritter and Schmidt (2008) of Germany's Renewable Energy Act, which legislates a system of feed-in tariff s to promote the use of renewable energies. As in the original article, we argue that Germany's support scheme subsidizes renewable energy...
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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 …
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