Electricity market integration and the impact of unilateral policy reforms

Luigi Grossi, Sven Heim, Kai Hüschelrath and Michael Waterson
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Kai Hueschelrath

Oxford Economic Papers, 2018, vol. 70, issue 3, 799-820

Abstract: We investigate the impact that two German energy reforms—phase-out of nuclear power plants after the Fukushima incident and expansion of renewables due to fixed feed-in tariffs—had on neighbouring countries’ consumers. The unilateral German reforms generated substantial negative and positive impacts, respectively, in neighbouring countries with the highest overall effect of German policy found in France, not Germany; an annual negative impact on consumers of €3.15 billion. We also find significant differences in market integration between neighbouring countries by calculating ratios between the estimated policy decisions’ impacts before and after controlling for interconnector congestion.

JEL-codes: F14 F15 L94 L98 Q41 Q48 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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