Emissions pricing instruments with intermittent renewables: second-best policy - Archive ouverte HAL Accéder directement au contenu
Communication Dans Un Congrès Année : 2023

Emissions pricing instruments with intermittent renewables: second-best policy

Résumé

I analyze emissions pricing to support the integration of a renewable resource into an electricity mix composed of an emissions-intensive technology. I consider the intermittent nature of the resource such as wind energy and incremental externalities that become severe for high emissions levels. I show that an emissions tax is inefficient when consumers are on flat-rate electricity tariffs and do not adapt their consumption to varying production. The tax is inefficient even with flexibility in the markets when consumers are on varying tariffs. The renewable resource induces variability in fossil-fueled electricity production and associated marginal damage that does not match a predetermined tax. I study an Emissions Trading Scheme that provides flexibility at the policy level. Emissions permits are traded at market prices. Since the emissions cap must still be predetermined, I show that it leads to inefficient permits prices that do not match the marginal damages. I also find that the two emissions pricing instruments are not implemented equivalently since the tax differs from the prices of permits.
Fichier non déposé

Dates et versions

hal-04597792 , version 1 (03-06-2024)

Identifiants

  • HAL Id : hal-04597792 , version 1

Citer

Nandeeta Neerunjun. Emissions pricing instruments with intermittent renewables: second-best policy. 44. Annual Meeting of the Association of Southern European Economic Theorists, Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Oct 2023, Lisboa Portugal, Portugal. ⟨hal-04597792⟩
0 Consultations
0 Téléchargements

Partager

Gmail Mastodon Facebook X LinkedIn More