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Bedeutung der Energieeffizienz für die Energiewende

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  • Franziska Löw

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The increase of the share of renewables in Germany’s energy mix will not emerge from market mechanisms, and hence the costs of externalities have to be distributed among market participants. In order to preserve their competitiveness, energy intensive industries in Germany are exempt from these costs, which in turn leads to a surplus load for remaining consumers. In the context of an efficient energy system transformation, this policy measure is questionable. Even if high electricity prices lead to higher input costs in the short term, an exception for energy intensive industries cannot be justified. On the contrary, this mechanism impedes incentives for investments in energy efficiency and therefore reduces competitiveness in the long term. Copyright ZBW and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2016

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  • Franziska Löw, 2016. "Bedeutung der Energieeffizienz für die Energiewende," Wirtschaftsdienst, Springer;ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 96(1), pages 34-39, January.
  • Handle: RePEc:spr:wirtsc:v:96:y:2016:i:1:p:34-39
    DOI: 10.1007/s10273-016-1922-3
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    Keywords

    O14; Q48; Q52;
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    JEL classification:

    • O14 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Industrialization; Manufacturing and Service Industries; Choice of Technology
    • Q48 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - Government Policy
    • Q52 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Pollution Control Adoption and Costs; Distributional Effects; Employment Effects

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