Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/59704 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 98.2011
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
In addition to the already present Climate and Energy package, the European Union (EU) plans to include a binding target to reduce energy consumption. We analyze the rationales the EU invokes to justify such an overlapping and develop a minimal common framework to study interactions arising from the combination of instruments reducing emissions, promoting renewable energy (RE) production and reducing energy demand through energy efficiency (EE) investments. We find that although all instruments tend to reduce emissions and a price on carbon tends to give the right incentives for RE and EE too, the combination of more than one instrument leads to significant antagonisms regarding major objectives of the policy package. The model allows to show in a single framework and to quantify the antagonistic effects of the joint promotion of RE and EE. We also show and quantify the effects of this joint promotion on ETS permit price, on wholesale market price and on energy production levels.
Subjects: 
Renewable Energy
Energy Efficiency
Energy Policy
Climate Policy
Policy Interaction
JEL: 
Q28
Q41
Q48
Q58
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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