This paper investigates the perspectives of commercial and industrial consumers on electricity pricing reform in Uttar Pradesh, India. In a first study of its kind, we report results from semi-structured, in-depth interviews that were conducted with a variety of firms, based on their electricity...

Fossil fuel subsidies undercut the international community's Sustainable Development Goals and climate change objectives in many ways. Estimated at several hundred billion dollars a year, such subsidies also affect fossil fuel prices, and can therefore have distorting impacts on trade and...

This article provides an overview of how WTO law applies to renewable energy feed-in tariffs (FITs) with local content requirements (LCR). It concludes that FITs with LCR are inconsistent with specific WTO provisions in the GATT and the TRIMs Agreement and that both agreements would therefore...

This paper offers an initial assessment of the use of local content requirements (LCR) in renewable energy policy. It observes that in spite of free trade concerns, many countries with different levels of economic development attach LCR to their support schemes and procurement tenders. The...