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key questions regarding residential electricity subsidies in Central America. In particular: How do the subsidy mechanisms … on the lowest-income groups. However, the existing electricity subsidy schemes are very inefficient at targeting … policymakers with the analytical foundations necessary to assess the costs and benefits of their electricity subsidy mechanisms …
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key questions regarding residential electricity subsidies in Central America. In particular: How do the subsidy mechanisms … on the lowest-income groups. However, the existing electricity subsidy schemes are very inefficient at targeting … policymakers with the analytical foundations necessary to assess the costs and benefits of their electricity subsidy mechanisms …
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Governments have faced increasing pressure for energy policy to converge around efficiency, sustainability, affordability, and access in recent years. However, separate "silos" rather than an integrated policy framework have addressed these objectives, widening the policy trade-offs. The...
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capacity additions do not perturb the efficiency of market outcomes as long as any charges to consumers to support the subsidy …
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On December 19, 2019, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued an order dramatically expanding the Minimum Offer Price Rule in PJM’s capacity market. The order changes how electricity-generating resources that receive state subsidies are treated in federally regulated wholesale...
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An expedient phase-out of carbon emissions in the electricity sector could be facilitated by imposing carbon fees and applying the revenue exclusively to subsidize new, low-carbon generation sources. Since there would initially be no "new sources," fees would be substantially zero at the outset...
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BEV and 25% of PHEV registrations were subsidy-induced, and had strong distributional effects, with greater uptake in …
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BEV and 25% of PHEV registrations were subsidy-induced, and had strong distributional effects, with greater uptake in …
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Colombia has reduced extreme poverty in the past 16 years by almost half, moderate poverty by 22 percentage points, and made more than four million Colombians jump the threshold of multidimensional poverty. However, it remains one of the most unequal countries in the region, after Brazil and...
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