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claimed that FIT programs constitute subsidies that go against the SCM Agreement, and that the LCR is incompatible with the …
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Faced with the energy transition imperative, governments have to decide about public policy to promote renewable electrical energy production and to protect domestic power generation equipment industries. For example, the Canada – Renewable energy dispute is over Feed-in tariff (FIT) programs...
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Empirical evidence on the effectiveness of R&D subsidies to firms has produced mixed results so far. One possible …
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only if the government can commit to those policies for as long as they affect firms' decisions. Export subsidies or other …
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developers, especially for subsidies. Inexperienced developers are more responsive to liability relief and regulatory relief than … they are to subsidies. Similar considerations hold true for larger developers. …
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damaging subsidies is lacking. Environmentally damaging subsidies are all kinds of direct and indirect subsidies aimed at … article develops a transparent method to determine the environmental impact of indirect government subsidies and derive policy … lessons. This method has been applied to several major subsidies in the Netherlands, namely in agriculture, energy, and …
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climate regimes.Against this background, this paper discusses carbon/energy taxes, subsidies, energy efficiency standards, eco …
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The paper analyzes the problem of achieving a target path of emission reductions in the electricity sector, using a scheme of tradable green certificates (TGC). There are two types of generation, renewable and fossil. The latter causes the emissions. The paper also examines effects from emission...
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Environmental policies frequently target the ratio of dirty to green output within the same industry. To achieve such targets the green sector may be subsidised or the dirty sector be taxed. This paper shows that in a monopolistic competition setting the two policy instruments have different...
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We evaluate the effects of homogeneous subsidies granted for emission-free electricity generation on market outcomes … and social welfare. We use an analytical model to assess the conditions under which such subsidies increase efficiency of … wholesale energy and capacity markets. While the subsidies, even when combined with energy consumption taxes, cannot achieve …
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