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Irish and British historical electricity prices and implications for the future

Deane, Paul; FitzGerald, John D.; Malaguzzi Valeri, Laura; … - 2013

This paper compares retail and wholesale electricity prices in SEM, the market of the island of Ireland, and BETTA in …

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Comparison of feed-in tariffs and tenders to remunerate solar power generation

Grau, Thilo - 2014

This paper analyzes the trade-offs for using feed-in tariffs or tenders to remunerate different scales of solar … photovoltaics (PV) projects. In recent years, European countries increasingly combined feed-in tariffs for small renewables systems …-in tariffs and tenders for PV plants with their dynamic cost trends. To assess deployment effectiveness, an analytic model is …

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When Competition Plays Clean : How Electricity Market Liberalization Facilitated State-level Climate Policies in the United States

Lee, Nathan - 2019

Why do some governments adopt policies to mitigate climate change while others do not? In this study, I illustrate the importance of industrial organization in shaping prospects for climate mitigation policy. Using a generalized difference-in-differences analysis, I show that U.S. states that...

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The effect of REFIT on Irish electricity prices

Devitt, Conor; Malaguzzi Valeri, Laura - 2011

of on-shore wind in the Republic of Ireland the cost of the REFIT scheme is between 5 per cent and 10 per cent of the … capital grants, and that off-shore wind that is channelled to exports should not be supported by Irish consumers. -- Ireland …

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Fukushima's Shadow

Davies, Lincoln L. - 2016

The March 11, 2011 tragedy at the Fukushima Daiichi power station in Japan immediately etched its place in history as arguably the most noteworthy of the three nuclear energy disasters to date. This Article surveys the response to Fukushima both in Japan and worldwide. It observes that rather...

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Fossil Fuel Subsidies Reform in the WTO : Options for Constraining Dual Pricing in the Multilateral Trading System

Marhold, Anna-Alexandra - 2018

Dual pricing is a practice through which resource-endowed states sell their energy resources at significantly lower prices on the domestic market, as compared to the price on the export market. Dual pricing could be considered an environmentally harmful fossil fuel subsidy: States that maintain...

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Interstate Transmission Challenges for Renewable Energy : A Federalism Mismatch

Klass, Alexandra B.; Wilson, Elizabeth J. - 2015

This Article discusses current challenges to siting new electric transmission infrastructure to facilitate the growth of renewable energy. In doing so, this Article focuses on recent legal and policy developments at the federal, state, and regional levels with a specific emphasis on states with...

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Traditional Commercial Model or Distributed Generation : Finding the Proper Scale for Wind Energy

Martin, Thomas - 2015

In this paper, I attempt to compare costs and benefits of the traditional model with distributed generation within the scope of wind energy generation. In Section II, I examine the following economic aspects of both models: in part A, economies of scale; part B, economics of permanence; part C,...

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Market Power and Windfall Profits in Emission Permit Markets

Hintermann, Beat - CER-ETH Center of Economic Research, Department of … - 2009

Although market power in permit markets has been examined in some detail following the seminal work of Hahn (1984), the effect of free allocation on price manipulation with market power in both output and permit market has not specifically been addressed. I show that in this case, the threshold...

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Unservice : Reconceptualizing the Utility Duty to Serve in Light of Climate Change

Payne, Heather - 2021

Monopoly regulated utilities operate under a duty to serve - they must provide service on a non-discriminatory basis to all who request it within their state-sanctioned monopoly territory. As climate change alters the conditions of the natural world, utilities will find themselves in the...

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