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This policy note investigates whether the current level of public support to environment-friendly technologies is … development, discussing particular features of clean technologies that justify policy intervention. We present empirical evidence … policy mix should look like. We present an overview of policies currently in place to support the development of clean …
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Electricity from renewable sources avoids disadvantages of conventional power generation but often meets with local resistance due to visual, acoustic, and odor nuisance. We use representative panel data on the subjective well-being of 46,678 individuals in Germany, 1994 - 2012, for identifying...
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contribute to the relevant literature by paying particular attention to the role of public policy for promoting renewable energy …
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We analyze the optimal accumulation of renewable energy (backstop) generating capacity in a capital-energy economy with exhaustible fossil fuels. The analysis rests upon graphical illustrations of optimal control considerations. Due to the exhaustibility of fossil fuels the relative...
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supportive for wind park planners, operators, and policy-makers. Based on long-term and low-scale reanalysis wind speed data from …
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understanding of changes to the future climate state, policy makers and engineering project planners beg to know what claims can be … the limitations of state-of-the-art climate system models and are apt to be useful for policy and engineering planning. …
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Producing electricity from wind is attractive because it provides a clean, low-maintenance power supply. However, wind resource is intermittent on various time scales, thus introducing variability in power output that is difficult for electric grid planning. In the following study, wind resource...
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The authors consider a symmetric model composed of two countries and a firm in each country. Firms produce the same good by means of a polluting technology which uses fossil energy. However, these firms can adopt clean technology which uses renewable energy, having lower costs. Interestingly,...
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of feed-in-tariffs and renewable portfolio standard policies showed that the former is good when a policy to develop … renewable energy sources with a low level of risk for investors is considered. However, the latter is an appropriate policy when … a market view policy is applied by the government. …
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Under which conditions unilateral tightening of climate policy causes a weak or strong green paradox or even decreases …, as the utilization of backstop by the country which tightens its climate policy always prevents a weak green paradox. As … a consequence, the effect of a tighter climate policy on social welfare can be reversed. Due to the stock dependence of …
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