Consumer cost effectiveness of CO2 mitigation policies in restructured electricity markets

Consumer cost effectiveness of CO2 mitigation policies in restructured electricity markets

We examine the cost of carbon dioxide mitigation to consumers in restructured USA markets under two policy instruments, a carbon price and a renewable portfolio standard (RPS). To estimate the effect of policies on market clearing prices, we constructed hourly economic dispatch models of the generat...

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Main Authors: Jared Moore, Jay Apt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2014-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
Subjects:
cost effectiveness
carbon price
renewable portfolio standards
restructured markets
capacity markets
natural gas
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/9/10/104019

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https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/9/10/104019

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