This paper aims at characterizing the conditions of wind power deployment in order to infer a carbon price level that would provide wind power with comparable advantage over fossil fuel technologies as effective wind support policies. The analysis is conducted on Danish data from 2000 to 2010,...

Minimum prices above the competitive level can lead to inefficient overproduction. We investigate whether this effect is more pronounced when decision makers are influenced by their social environment. Using data of minimum prices for renewable energy production in Germany, we test if individual...

Government support for green technologies and renewable energy (RE) in particular has become an integral cornerstone of economic policy for most industrialized economies. Due to competitive price determination and supposedly higher efficiency, auctions have in recent years widely succeeded...

Die Reform des Gebäudeenergiegesetzes zielt darauf ab, den Anteil erneuerbarer Energien im Gebäudebereich zu erhöhen. Die vorgesehenen Maßnahmen, insbesondere der forcierte Einsatz von Wärmepumpen, sind jedoch ökologisch ineffektiv, da mögliche CO2-Einsparungen im Rahmen des nationalen...

Die Energieversorgung muss klimaschonend, sicher, aber auch bezahlbar sein. Fossile Energien allen voran Öl und später auch Gas werden knapper und teurer. Die fossile Ressource Kohle steht uns zwar noch sehr lange zur Verfügung, die Verbrennung verursacht jedoch klimagefährliche...

On the one hand, wind power production is necessary for decarbonizing the electricity sector. On the other hand, we risk replacing one environmental problem with other environmental problems, that is, stopping climate change in exchange with increased loss of pristine land and biodiversity. The...

The diffusion of renewable electricity generating technologies is widely considered as crucial for establishing a sustainable energy system in the future. However, the required transition is unlikely to be achieved by market forces alone. For this reason, many countries implement various policy...

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...

In federal countries the allocation of renewable energy (RE) deployment is simultaneously regulated by national and subnational governments. We analyze the efficiency of federal coregulation when different types of policy instruments - price and quantity - are assigned to government levels....