Feed-in-tariffs financed by energy taxes: When do they lower consumer prices?

Arbeitspapier

The share of renewable energies in the electricity sector ('green' electricity production) relative to overall electricity supply has been growing steadily over the last years in most industrialized countries. This expansion was due to economic support either by subsidies or quota requirements for green energy. Without such support, green electricity would not be competitive to electricity supply from conventional production capacities ('black' electricity production) - e.g. coal and gas fired or nuclear power plants. In this paper, we study the effects of the two most prominent forms of economic support: surcharge-financed guaranteed Feed-in Tariffs (sfgFIT) that are most common in European, and proportional quotas which are implemented in several U.S. American jurisdictions.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: MAGKS Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics ; No. 13-2011

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft
• Subject: Stromtarif ; Förderung regenerativer Energien ; Administrierter Preis ; Elektrizitätswirtschaft ; Energiesteuer ; Marktstruktur ; Theorie

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): von Wangenheim, Georg ; Müller, Tom
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Philipps-University Marburg, Faculty of Business Administration and Economics
• (where): Marburg
• (when): 2011

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/56550
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