This document (of 279 pages) comprises the proceedings of an OECD roundtable on the competition policy implications of price transparency, held at the OECD in June 2001. Price transparency is a two-edged sword. On the one hand, it may increase the intensity of competition by reducing the costs...

Der Ausbau alternativer Energien wird in den Medien oft auf den Strompreisanstieg reduziert, während positive Zukunftsaussichten unter den Tisch fallen. Die durch massive Lobbyarbeit (dazu S. Adamek: "Die Atom-Lüge", ID-A 31/11) in Wirtschaft und Politik flankierten Widerstände gegen das...

The feed-in tariff (FIT) program is a popular policy for incentivizing new renewable energy projects because it establishes a long-term contract with renewable energy investors. This paper presents a novel model to analyze a FIT contract with a minimum price guarantee (i.e., a price-floor...

This paper evaluates investment incentives for wind power under uniform and nodal pricing.An electricity system model is developed, which allows for investments into wind power whileconsidering transmission grid constraints in detail. Targeting equally high wind capacitiesunder nodal and uniform...

With less than 2% of new renewable energy production, Switzerland is a poor performer in international comparison. A study carried out for the Swiss Federal Office of Energy showed constraints explaining this low number. One of these is a need for companies to optimize their sales process....