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- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Copyright
- © 2020 by The Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. All rights reserved.
- ISSN
- 2333-5955
- eISSN
- 2333-5963
- DOI
- 10.1086/709648
- Publisher site
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Abstract
What are the final equilibrium impacts of renewable energy investments on consumer and producer surpluses? This paper offers an approach to quantify the surplus breakdown in a market dominated by renewables and sufficient storage to counterbalance their intermittency—the Nordic electricity market. Wind power entry has strong distributional impacts: 10% market share for wind generation changes the consumer side surplus by an amount that is equivalent to a 40% decline in expenditures, at the cost of incumbents’ surplus. The surplus transfer is big enough to cover the cost of subsidizing entry.
Journal
Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists – University of Chicago Press
Published: Sep 1, 2020