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This short fact sheet reviews the significance of network charges, their role in driving inefficient consumption and higher costs, how other industries recoup fixed costs through per-unit pricing, and how tariff design can empower customers and drive Europe’s clean energy… View Summary +
Energy efficiency plays a critical role in achieving the ambitious carbon reduction goals set out in the Paris Agreement. The International Energy Agency (IEA) created a model scenario, aligned with the Paris Agreement, which indicates that half of global emission… View Summary +
Eine vielversprechende Option zur konsequenten Förderung von Energieeffizienz sind sogenannte marktbasierte Instrumente. Darunter fallen wettbewerbliche Ausschreibungen, Auktionsmechanismen, Weiße Zertifikate und Energieeffizienzverpflichtungen. Dieses Briefing fasst die wesentlichen Ergebnisse einer Studie des Regulatory Assistance Project und der Internationalen Energieagentur (IEA) für die… View Summary +
For the past quarter-century, the electricity sector in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu has been defined by subsidies: free or reduced-price power granted to various groups of customers for both political and socioeconomic reasons. This paper, part of the… View Summary +
Innovation in the electric energy system and the empowerment of customers means that there is a need to reform traditional cost-of-service regulation of utilities. Performance-based regulation (PBR), which recompenses utilities based upon their performance outputs, enables regulators to reform hundred-year-old… View Summary +
The Indian state of Maharashtra is the country’s second largest in terms of population and third largest in terms of geography. It is one of the most industrialized and urban states in India, but its economic development is marked by… View Summary +
Die australische Energiepolitik ist stark polarisiert und befindet sich derzeit in einer Umbruchphase. Während die reichlich vorhandenen Rohstoffe in der Vergangenheit für niedrige Energiepreise gesorgt haben, sind die Endverbraucherpreise für Strom und Gas in den letzten Jahren drastisch gestiegen. Gleichzeitig… View Summary +
In den USA gibt es auf Bundesebene keine expliziten Ziele, den Endenergieverbrauch oder den Einsatz fossiler Energieträger zukünftig zu begrenzen oder sogar zu senken. Nichtsdestotrotz wurden in den vergangenen Jahren und Jahrzenten viele Maßnahmen ergriffen, um die Energieeffizienz insbesondere in… View Summary +
Kalifornien hat ambitionierte Klima- und Energieziele, insbesondere im Vergleich zu den anderen westlichen US-Bundesstaaten. Heute werden etwa 30 Prozent der Stromerzeugung durch Erneuerbare Energien abgedeckt, im Jahr 2030 sollen es 50 Prozent sein. Damit steht Kalifornien vor den gleichen Herausforderungen… View Summary +
Die deutsche Energiewende ist ein wichtiges Beispiel von zukunftsorientierten und konsequenten Reformen. Genauso wie andere Nationen von den Innovationen – und von den Fehlschlägen – der Energiewende lernen können, kann Deutschland auch von den Strukturen und Erfahrungen anderer Länder profitieren. View Summary +
Despite its considerable resource endowment, and a relatively “clean slate” during the formation of the state, Jharkhand has severely underdelivered on most aspects of its electricity mandate. It is hard to blame a beleaguered Jharkhand State Electricity Board exclusively for… View Summary +
The electricity distribution sector in Uttar Pradesh has, since the late 1980s, faced the persistent problem of poor performance by its public electricity distribution companies (discoms), which are crippled by high levels of debt. Following years of discussion and at… View Summary +
Since the earliest days of environmental policy there has been an ongoing and robust debate over the roles of pollution pricing on the one hand, and direct regulatory and governmental programs on the other hand, as tools to reduce pollution… View Summary +
Uttarakhand currently enjoys an energy sector where power cuts are limited, electricity tariffs are some of the lowest in India, full electrification is close to being achieved, and the state’s public power distribution company (discom) has low levels of debt… View Summary +
One of the major energy efficiency strategies in the EU is a requirement that Member States establish energy efficiency obligation (EEO) schemes or alternative measures that would deliver a growing level of energy savings from measures delivered to end use… View Summary +