Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/251985 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
ifo Working Paper No. 368
Publisher: 
ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, Munich
Abstract: 
We conduct a hybrid scenario exercise to analyze decarbonization pathways of the European power market and related distributional effects across countries as well as between consumers and producers. Our CIB analysis reveals qualitative scenarios that differ in the level of political (stringency of climate policy) and physical collaboration (transmission grid expansion). We use a CGE model to quantify those scenarios for further usage in a power market model. Consumers generally experience considerably higher electricity prices, whereas producers observe higher rents. Electricity prices are lowest in the least collaborative future. Producer rents in turn are highest in the most collaborative one. Patterns hugely differ by country, making 13 countries to profiteers of the least collaborative future and 12 countries to profiteers of the most collaborative one. Only 3 countries profit from medium collaboration. Countries that profit from the most collaborative future experience substantially higher producer rents. Countries that profit from the least collaborative one in turn experience lowest electricity prices.
Subjects: 
hybrid scenario analysis
CIB method
CGE modeling
energy system modeling
power market modeling
collaboration
decarbonization
energy transition
distributional effects
JEL: 
C61
Q40
Q41
Q52
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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