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The energy crisis engulfing Europe is a crisis of both gas and electricity markets, with huge cost impacts on consumers … across all European countries. In Britain, half of typical household energy expenditure arises from electricity. This paper … examines how the cost of gas-powered generation feeds through to electricity bills, on the principle of marginal cost pricing …
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limit GHG emissions. Past studies have indicated that heat-rate efficiency improvements can increase electricity output …
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become much cheaper than gas-driven wholesale electricity prices, to consumers at ‘cost-plus’ prices. This would reduce the …
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stationary sources. Using variation in state level electricity industry restructuring activity, I identify the effect of economic … electricity markets were less likely to adopt more capital intensive environmental compliance options as compared to regulated or … publicly owned plants. Second, as a consequence of heterogeneity in electricity market regulations, a larger share of the …
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Environmental regulation can be broadly divided into those that follow the top-down and bottom-up approaches. The two approaches have similar objective with respect to environmental protection and sustainability. However, the success with which each approach achieves goals of environmental...
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. Against this background, we develop a model of the main sectors covered by the EU ETS: electricity, steel, cement, and …. Another relatively efficient policy is to combine auctioning in the electricity sector and output-based allocation in exposed … generation of the electricity consumed. Although output-based allocation is generally less effective than border adjustment to …
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asymmetric subsidy incentives by using a regression discontinuity design in California's electricity rebate program that provided … social marginal cost of electricity. …
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Electricity Generating Board whichn generated and transmitted all publicly supplied electricity in England and Wales until 1990. …
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In December 1990, the twelve regional electricity companies responsible for the distribution and supply of electricity …
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This paper studies how different NOx abatement technologies have diffused under the Swedish system of refunded emissions charges and analyzes the determinants of the time to adoption. The policy, under which the charge revenues are refunded back to the regulated firms in proportion to energy...
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