clean energy

Professor Dieter Helm’s Cost of Energy review was greeted in parts of the press with headlines like “excessive green taxes force up energy bills”. Sam Fankhauser analyses the review in the context of UK efforts to tackle climate change. Read more

This paper simulates the distributional consequences of alternative carbon emission reduction policies on power producers and finds that that a carbon tax outperforms all other instruments and does not reduce the profits of carbon-free generators. Read more

Energy is needed for economic growth, and access to cheap, reliable energy is an essential development objective. However, in the... Read more

It is vitally important that the public debate about the UK’s options for managing the risks of climate change is... Read more

The COP-21 meeting in Paris produced an important result. For the first time all countries developed and developing agreed to take... Read more

Lord Stern responds to a pledge made by 20 countries to double government investment in clean energy innovation to US$20 billion over five years. Read more

There is a danger that the current tinkering to subsidies and taxes affecting renewables in the UK will result in incoherence that will hinder efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Read more

The longer governments wait to promote clean energy innovation, the greater the eventual cost to the environment and the economy,... Read more

Executive summary The British Feed-in Tariff (FiT) scheme, which launched in April 2010, pays £500 million each year to the... Read more

Private investors need to be persuaded to spend billions of pounds to create a cleaner and more efficient power sector... Read more