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US Regulators Avoid The Ire Of Solar Proponents 29 Jul 2013 | 08:28 pm
State level regulators, like politicians, read the newspaper headlines, notice what is in their in-box and have a good sense of what their constituents like and dislike. This, more than anything else,...
How energy transition may reorganize European territories? 20 Jun 2013 | 05:38 pm
Europe is often criticized for its lack of global energy policy. The three objectives towards 2020 let Europe fancy it had started to build its own policy but the energy and climate package was no mor...
Estimating the costs of nuclear power 28 May 2013 | 05:15 pm
The debate on the costs of nuclear power generation is fairly confusing. Some present electricity production using nuclear power as an affordable solution, others maintain it is too expensive. These w...
Why the European Emissions Trading Scheme needs reforming, and how this can be done 16 May 2013 | 07:51 pm
Following the vote in the European Parliament, the Commission will not be able to quickly implement “backloading”, the point of which is to send a very short-term signal to the market pending further ...
PJM Market: Good, Can Get Better 2 May 2013 | 07:26 pm
The PJM market has always been, and continues to be, a source of fascination to anyone interested in organized or competitive wholesale electricity markets. First, it is by far the largest such organi...
Energy transition: ambiguity of the notion of variable geometry 21 Apr 2013 | 10:48 pm
Since the Copenhagen conference of December 2009, the actors involved in climate negotiations seem be engaged in a game of mistigri, in which everyone is in a hurry to pass on any card that exposes th...
The residential increasing block pricing structure: an efficient solution to control energy demand and tackle inequalities 31 Mar 2013 | 07:46 pm
Increasing block tariffs structure -also called, progressive tariffs, tiered-rates or inverted block rates- is a pricing model that charges a higher rate per kWh at higher levels of energy usage, and ...
A blueprint for a European transmission system 18 Mar 2013 | 06:43 pm
The European Commission’s proposal is supposed to deliver more cross-border electricity transmission.It is an extension of the current system of national-welfare centred regulations, a system which do...
Cost Benefit Analysis in the context of the Energy Infrastructure Package 11 Mar 2013 | 11:52 pm
Cost Benefit Analysis has proven to be a useful tool to support the economic appraisal of important projects in many sectors. Recently, a single Cost Benefit Analysis method has been proposed at EU le...
Has the EU ETS induced low-carbon innovation? 21 Feb 2013 | 04:28 pm
The EU ETS is the main instrument of European climate policy, and many policymakers envisage it as a driving force of the EU’s transition to a low-carbon economy. By putting a price on emissions, the ...
