Measuring the Carbon Delta of Investment Performance

Celine McInerney and Derek Bunn

Chapter 9 in Renewable Energy Finance:Powering the Future, 2015, pp 195-221 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: Incorporating carbon price risk in valuation and investment decisions poses significant challenges for power sector investors. To the extent that carbon emissions are a cost of production for fossil fuel generators, capital markets theory would suggest that a rising price for any factor of production would lead investors to revise their expectations of future profits, leading to lower company valuations (Veith, 2009). Thus, in principle, carbon emissions create a contingent liability for carbon-intense generators and the valuation implication of this depends upon the extent to which these liabilities can be passed on to consumers. This chapter explores how carbon pricing changes the competitive dynamics of fossil fuel and renewable energy technologies in European power markets.

Keywords: Renewable Energy; Clean Energy Finance; Solar Energy Financing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q2 Q48 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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