-related grid maintenance costs and electricity taxation, to address endogeneity of average prices in our models. Using first … unity. Results thus suggest that a tax on electricity, as initially foreseen as a part of Switzerland's Energy Strategy 2050 …

We present a model for an energy market that includes a green certificate for suppliers of energy from renewables and a … purchaser commitment to buy these certificates. We show that price and volume effects in the energy market are ambigous under a …. Simulations shows a downward movement in energy prices as the government starts increasing the level of the purchaser commitment …

the absence of certificate auctioning, energy-intensive industry sectors, such as primary aluminum production, may suffer … auctioning system may endanger the competitive position of energy-intensive industries in Europe, unless all other major …

paper also addresses the reliability of China's statistics on energy and GDP, the issue crucial to the reliability of China …

In this paper we study the recent awareness and persuasion campaign launched by the Irish government to increase energy … that the efficiency campaign has increased self-reported interest in energy efficiency and awareness of behaviours that … curb natural gas consumption. However we do not find any positive effect of the campaign on self-reported energy …

exchange rate and investment environment. These unique features have enabled our model to be best equipped to evaluate the … underestimated if no consideration is given of the impacts of exchange rate and investment environment. Finally, as there is an …

household residential energy usage at the national level, containing the broadest geographical coverage, and with the longest … find strong household response to energy prices, both in the short and long term. From the static models, we get estimates … small. These results are in sharp contrast to much of the literature on residential energy consumption in the United States …