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Long Run Demand for Energy Services: the Role of Economic and Technological Development
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2013-01-01)
This paper investigates how the demand for energy services has changed since the Industrial Revolution. It presents evidence on the income and price elasticities of demand for domestic heating, passenger transport and ...
The economics of hydro-meteorological disasters: approaching the estimation of the total costs
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2013-08-28)
Hydro-meteorological disasters have caused increasing losses in recent years. Efficient risk reduction policies require accurate assessment approaches, with careful consideration of costs, beyond direct tangible costs, ...
Evaluation of Two Alternative Carbon Capture and Storage Technologies: A Stochastic Model
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2013-03-03)
In this paper we evaluate two alternative CCS technologies of a coal-fired power plant from an investor’s point of view. The first technology uses CO2 for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) paired with storage in deep saline ...
Understanding Public Support for Externality-Correcting Taxes and Subsidies: A Lab Experiment
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2013-01-01)
The potential of taxation to correcting environmental externalities has been long recognized among economists. Yet, this welfare-enhancing policy commonly faces strong opposition by citizens. Conversely, externality-correcting ...
Regional IAM: analysis of risk-adjusted costs and benefits of climate policies
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2013-02-02)
Across the full range of publications in the field of economics of climate change there is perhaps only one firm agreement: both costs and benefits of climate policy are highly uncertain. In an ideal world one would wait ...
Economic Efficiency, Environmental Effectiveness and Political Feasibility of Energy Efficiency Rebates: The Case of the Spanish Energy Efficiency 'Renove' Plan
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2013-02-02)
Energy labels are used to promote the purchase of efficient appliances. Many countries in Europe use subsidies (namely energy efficiency rebates) to support these purchases as it is the case of Spain. A figure ranging from ...
Time and tide wait for no man: pioneers and laggards in the deployment of CCS
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2013-09-25)
In Europe the ambitions of individual countries to deploy carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies are diverse. Reasons for this are, amongst other things, the heterogeneity of national electricity generation systems ...
The Green Paradox and Learning-by-doing in the Renewable Energy Sector
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2013-04-04)
We investigate the effect of climate policies on fossil fuel use in the presence of a clean alternative technology that exhibits learning-by-doing. In a two-period framework, the costs of clean and regenerative energy in ...
Decarbonising urban transportation
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2013-12-13)
The transportation sector is a major contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions, accounting for around one-quarter of current annual emissions. Surface transportation (passenger vehicles, buses, rail, and freight ...
Budget-Neutral Financing to Unlock Energy Savings Potential: An Analysis of the ESCO Model in Barcelona
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2013-01-01)
The objective of this article is to introduce an increasingly popular business model known as the Energy Service Company (ESCO) model and bring to light the principal barriers to its widespread implementation both ...