Consequences of Electricity Restructuring on the Environment: a Survey

Benoît Sévi

Cahiers du CREDEN (CREDEN Working Papers) from CREDEN (Centre de Recherche en Economie et Droit de l'Energie), Faculty of Economics, University of Montpellier 1

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to assess theoretical consequences of restructuring electricity markets on the environment. We examine changes in potential behaviours in consumption-side as well as in supply-side. We show that restructuring and following access to competition is not neutral from an environmental standpoint. Deregulation could induce some negative externalities due to requirements in cost-effciency. The principal result of this paper is the need of strong incentives in public policies to compensate the new short-term horizon in which energy sector's firms are evolving, particularly concerning R&D.

Keywords: ELECTRICITY RESTRUCTURING; ENVIRONMENT; GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS; REGULATION; INNOVATION. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H50 Q28 Q48 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27 pages
Date: 2004
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