This paper summarises the major recommendations and conclusions of the third Forum of
the European Network on Energy Research (ENER) which took place in June 2002 in …

Since the liberalisation of the European electricity sector, forward and futures contracts have
gained significant interest of market participants due to risk management reasons. For …

Programmes aiming at the direct market diffusion of renewable energies started promoting
significant amounts of RES investments in 1989, when a market stimulation programme was …

The European Union has established a number of targets regarding energy efficiency,
Renewable Energy Sources (RES) and CO 2 reductions as the ‘GREEN PAPER on Energy …

Renewable energy sources increasingly seek to compete in electricity markets outside of
traditional support schemes. In this context, market values and the cannibalization risks of wind …

The Irish Government is considering its future targets, policy and programmes for renewable
energy for the period beyond 2005. This follows a review in 2003 of policy options that …

Within recent years, energy policies have imposed a number of targets at European and
national level for rational use of energy (RUE), renewable energy sources (RES) and related …

This paper investigates the promising proposal of Joint Implementation (JI) to mitigate
greenhouse gas emissions. This was ultimately the only concrete outcome of the Conference on …

Since the publication of the White Paper" Energy for the future"(EC, 1997) and the adoption
of the Directive 2001/77/EC (EC, 2001) on renewable energies in the electricity sector (RES-…

This paper compares the “pollutee pays principle” with the “polluter pays principle” in a
model of one-sided externalities and asymmetric information. Even allowing for mitigation …