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Environmental and technology policy options in the electricity sector : interactions and outcomes
Fischer, Carolyn; Newell, Richard G.; Preonas, Louis - 2014
Myriad policy measures aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the electricity sector, promote generation from renewable sources, and encourage energy conservation. To what extent do innovation and energy efficiency (EE) market failures justify additional interventions when a carbon price is...
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The rise and fall of bioenergy
Hoel, Michael - 2018
If bioenergy has a less negative impact on the climate than fossil energy, it may be optimal to have a significant increase in the use of bioenergy over time. Due to the difference in the way the climate is affected by the two types of energy, the future time path of the use of bioenergy may be...
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Commitment vs. discretion in climate and energy policy
Habermacher, Florian; Lehmann, Paul - 2017
To decarbonize the power sector policy-makers need to commit to long-term credible rules for climate and energy policy. Otherwise, time-inconsistent policy-making will impair investments into low-carbon technologies. However, the future benefits and costs of decarbonization are subject to...
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Optimal subsidies for residential solar
Colas, Mark; Saulnier, Emmett - 2023 - This Version: August 2023
We study the spatial misallocation resulting from subsidies for residential solar panels in the US and quantify the associated environmental costs. We build a structural model of solar panel demand and electricity production across the country and estimate the model by combining 1) remotely...
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Means-tested solar subsidies
Colas, Mark; Reynier, Emmett - 2024
We study the optimal design of income-contingent subsidies for residential solar panels. Using remotely sensed data on solar panel installations across the contiguous US and a border-discontinuity design, we estimate that the responsiveness of installation rates to subsidies is strongly...
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Can electric vehicles aid the renewable transition? : evidence from a field experiment incentivising midday charging
La Nauze, Andrea; Friesen, Lana; Lim, Kai Li; Menezes, … - 2024
In a field experiment tracking 390 electric vehicles minute-by-minute, we show that incentives reduce charging by 17%—27% during peak times and increase it by 34% during midday when solar generation is highest. Peak charging decreases at home, while midday charging rises out of the home....
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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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Motivation crowding in peer effects : the effect of solar subsidies on green power purchases
La Nauze, Andrea - 2021
I test whether economic incentives dampen peer effects in public-good settings. I study how a visible and subsidized contribution to a public good (installing solar panels) affects peer contributions that are neither subsidized nor visible (electing green power). Exploiting spatial variation in...
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Reopening Pandora's box in search of a WTO-compatible industrial policy? : the Brazil - taxation dispute
Ornelas, Emanuel; Puccio, Laura - 2019
Japan against seven different Brazilian industrial subsidy programmes. One concerned the automotive sector and represents a … or imports. The ensuing WTO dispute raises important issues concerning the WTO-compatibility of subsidy measures. In … particular, the Appellate Body (AB) reversed the panel findings with respect to two issues: the extent to which subsidy measures …
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Simultaneous use of black, green, and white certificates systems : a rather messy business
Amundsen, Eirik Schrøder; Bye, Torstein - 2016
We formulate a model with black, green and white certificates markets that function in conjunction with an electricity market. The markets function well in the sense that a common equilibrium solution exist, where all targets are satisfied (e.g. share of green electricity and share of energy...
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