Frondel, Manuel; Schmidt, Christoph M.; Vance, Colin - 2012
This article revisits an analysis by Frondel, Ritter and Schmidt (2008) of Germany's Renewable Energy Act, which … Germany's support scheme subsidizes renewable energy technologies not based on their long-term market potential, but rather on … double those of onshore wind. The result is explosive costs with little to show for either environmental or employment …