Titel: EU renewable energy support policy: Faith or facts?
Författare: Staffan Jacobsson, Anna Bergek, Dominique Finon, Volkmar Lauber, Catherine Mitchell, David Toke, Aviel Verbruggen
Utgivare: Energy Policy37(2009)2143–2146,2009 Elsevier Ltd.
Årtal: 2009
Ämnesord: EU Policy, Tradable green certificates, Evidence
Rapport (pdf)
Sammanfattning: The recent EU Commission proposal for promoting the supply of power from renewable energy sources was originally based on a pan-European, harmonized tradable green certificate(TGC) scheme. We suggest, on the basis of a multi-disciplinary analysis, that a pan-EUTGC system is not the way forward for Europe. It is vital that the Commission (and the majority of Member States) avoids implementation of such policy designs put forward by a coalition of vested interests. They should instead look at, and act upon, the available evidence from those countries that have experimented with TGCs (e.g. Flanders, UK and Sweden) and design policies that stand a better chance of meeting the criteria of effectiveness, efficiency and equity. In particular, the policies must enable EU to meet the immense innovation/Industrialization challenge by inducing the development of a capital goods industry that can, eventually, diffuse abroad range of technologies that use renewable energy sources. Only then we can acquire an ability to implement an industrial revolution in the energy system in a way that broadly meets the criteria of effectiveness and dynamic efficiency.