This paper explores the political-administrative process which determines the release of siting permits in Italian power generation. The empirical analysis is an attempt to test whether the national and regional governments are efficient when they approve the location requests made by power...

The reaction of communities to the development of energy facilities is based on the environmental impact of the investment, but it also reflects the ex-ante propensity of residents to engage in collective actions. In this work we have examined the requests of authorization of Italian power...

Complex planning procedures often amplify the difference in investment time between generation and transmission. In this work we consider a transmission project in Italy and, relying on a recently proposed methodology, we compare costs and benefits of anticipating the planning process before the...