The European Union's renewable energy policy is one of the most ambitious attempts to facilitate a transition towards more sustainable energy systems. This book provides a comprehensive guide to the policy and its implementation. It contains key case studies for understanding how member states...

Introduction: Financial Implications of Regulations in the Energy Industry -- Environmental Regulatory Arbitrage by Business Groups in the Context of the European Union's Emission Trading System (EU-ETS) -- Measuring the Effects of Energy Efficiency Policies: Evidence from Turkish Manufacturing...

Why regulation? -- Where are we coming from?... -- Tempering the tyranny of market powers -- The public cause of exploitation -- The art of steering public resources towards the common interest - the supranational approach -- The art of sector-specific regulation in the internal market -- The...