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Prices vs. percentages : use of tradable green certificates as an instrument of greenhouse gas mitigation

Heimvik, Arild; Amundsen, Eirik Schrøder - 2019

. Outcomes are compared with an emission fee and a subsidy. The analytical results are simulated with a numerical model and … subsidy. …

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U.S. Energy Subsidies:Do They Reduce Electricity Generated CO2 Emissions?

Maguire, Karen - Spears School of Business, Oklahoma State University - 2012

This paper analyzes the influence of energy subsidies, Department of Energy (DOE) budget, U.S. government R&D spending on energy, and energy tax expenditures, on CO2 emissions from fossil fuels in the electricity market. The findings indicate that between 1990 and 2010 increases in DOE Outlays...

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Market power in interactive environmental and energy markets : the case of green certificates

Amundsen, Eirik Schrøder; Nese, Gjermund - 2016

Markets for environmental externalities are typically closely related to the markets causing such externalities, whereupon strategic interaction may result. Along these lines, the market for Tradable Green Certificates (TGCs) is strongly interwoven in the electricity market as the producers of...

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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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Germany's Solar Cell Promotion : Dark Clouds on the Horizon

Frondel, Manuel; Ritter, Nolan; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2014

This article demonstrates that the large feed-in tariffs currently guaranteed for solar electricity in Germany constitute a subsidization regime that, if extended to 2020, threatens to reach a level comparable to that of German hard coal production, a notoriously outstanding example of misguided...

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Market Segmentation vs. Subsidization : Clean Energy Credits and the Commerce Clause's Economic Wisdom

Mormann, Felix - 2019

clash between federal courts and state legislatures is energy policy. In the absence of a decisive federal policy response …

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Converting the Converted : Subsidies and Solar Adoption

Kattenberg, Linde; Aydin, Erdal; Brounen, Dirk; Kok, Nils - 2023

exploits a natural experimental setting, in which a solar PV subsidy is assigned randomly within a group of households applying … for the subsidy. Combining data gathered from 100,000 aerial images with detailed information on 15,000 households, we … estimate the impact of subsidy provision on the adoption of solar PV, installed capacity, timing of the adoption, and …

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Germany's solar cell promotion : an unfolding disaster

Frondel, Manuel; Schmidt, Christoph M.; Vance, Colin - 2012

protection instruments. -- Energy policy ; employment effects ; climate protection …

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Installing photovoltaics in Germany : a license to print money?

Andor, Mark Andreas; Frondel, Manuel; Vance, Colin - 2015

Using detailed data originating from several hundred households of the German Residential Energy Survey (GRECS), this paper empirically investigates the returns on investment in home-equipped photovoltaics (PV) installations. We find that these returns were particularly high in the years 2009 to...

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Addressing the climate problem : choice between allowances, feed-in tariffs and taxes

Amundsen, Eirik Schrøder; Andersen, Peder; Birk … - 2018

three instruments: an allowance system (tradable green certificates), a subsidy system (feed-in tariffs) and a Pigouvian …

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