Combining tariffs, investment subsidies and soft loans in a renewable electricity deployment policy

Pere Mir-Artigues () and Pablo del Río ()
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Pere Mir-Artigues: Universitat de Lleida
Pablo del Río: Institute of Public Goods and Policies. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)

No 2014/23, Working Papers from Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB)

Abstract: Policy combinations and interactions have received a considerable attention in the energy policy realm. The aim of our working paper is to provide insight on the cost-effectiveness of combinations of deployment instruments for the same technology. A financial model is developed for this purpose, whereby feed-in tariffs (FITs) and premiums (FIPs) are combined with investment subsidies and soft loans. The results show that combining deployment instruments is not a cost-containment strategy. However, combinations may lead to different inter-temporal distributions of the same amount of policy costs which can affect the social acceptability and political feasibility of renewable energy support.

Keywords: Renewable energy; policies; combinations; cost-effectiveness; feed-in tariffs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H81 L51 Q48 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23 pages
Date: 2014
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