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Europe's energy crisis : are geopolitical risks in source countries of fossil fuels accelerating the transition to renewable energy?

Hille, Erik - In: Energy economics 127 (2023) 1, pp. 1-16

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Environmental Law and Fossil Fuels : Barriers to Renewable Energy

Outka, Uma - 2012

This article is concerned with renewable energy’s too-slow transition and with how existing legal regimes work to preserve fossil energy dominance. It develops from two related claims: that an implicit support structure for fossil energy is written into law in a range of areas, including...

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The environmental cost of global fuel subsidies

Davis, Lucas W. - In: The energy journal 38 (2017), pp. 7-27

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Optimal carbon taxation and horizontal equity

Hänsel, Martin C.; Franks, Max; Kalkuhl, Matthias; … - 2021 - Thus version: March 11,2021

We develop a model of optimal carbon taxation and redistribution taking into account horizontal equity concerns by considering heterogeneous energy efficiencies. By deriving ﬁrst- and second-best rules for policy instruments including carbon taxes, transfers and energy subsidies, we then...

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Optimal carbon taxation and horizontal equity : a welfare theoretic approach with application to German household data

Hänsel, Martin C.; Franks, Max; Kalkuhl, Matthias; … - 2021

We develop a model of optimal carbon taxation and redistribution taking into account horizontal equity concerns by considering heterogeneous energy efficiencies. By deriving first- and second-best rules for policy instruments including carbon taxes, transfers and energy subsidies, we then...

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Subsidising renewables but taxing storage? : second-best policies with imperfect carbon pricing

Helm, Carsten; Mier, Mathias - 2019

high availability. Moreover, the subsidy scheme is substantially more complex than a first-best Pigouvian tax. The optimal … renewable subsidy is always positive but tends to decrease as electricity production becomes less reliant on fossils. The … optimal storage subsidy even changes its sign. It is usually negative as long as fossils contribute to filling the storage …

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Effectiveness of renewable energy subsidies in a CO2 intensive electricity system

Pattakou, Aimilia; Vlahakis, Aryestis - 2018

, including variable renewable generators and the external costs of carbon, to examine the way in which a unit subsidy to variable … capacities for all technologies. We then describe the mechanism by which a subsidy that does not discriminate between dirty … of carbon could have a corrective effect on the merit order of fossil fuels and improve the effectiveness of a subsidy. …

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Subsidising renewables but taxing storage? : second-best policies with imperfect carbon pricing

Helm, Carsten; Mier, Mathias - 2018

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011911934

Carbon abatement with renewables : evaluating wind and solar subsidies in Germany and Spain

Abrell, Jan; Kosch, Mirjam; Rausch, Sebastian - In: Journal of public economics 169 (2019), pp. 172-202

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The rise and fall of bioenergy

Hoel, Michael - In: Journal of environmental economics and management : … 101 (2020), pp. 1-14

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