Prices from the competitive procurement of renewable energy sources are increasingly used for the comparative evaluation of financial and technology performance. Comparing prices from auctions or power purchase agreements at their face value is often not meaningful, particularly across...

European governments have agreed to increase the share of renewable energy in final energy consumption to 20% by 2020. A crucial question for policy makers is how to mobilise the additional capital investments in RE and which consumer expenditures are involved. The article describes policy...