Redistribution effects of energy and climate policy

摘要: Hirth_Ueckerdt - Redistribution - Dresden_slides Page 1 Redistribution Effects of Energy and Climate Policy Lion Hirth, Vattenfall Falko Ueckerdt, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research 7th Enerday, Dresden 2012-04-27 Page 2 2 What we do in the paper • Redistribution: reduce one actor’s economic surplus and increase another one’s • Goal of the research project: explain and quantify the redistribution flows induced by climate and energy policies • Three sectors Corresponding surpluses - Producers (existing generators) Profit, producer rent, producer surplus - Consumers Consumer surplus - Government Net governmental income • Two policies - Renewable (“wind”) support (feed-in-tariff, green certificates, …) - CO 2 pricing (carbon tax, cap & trade) • Methodology - Analytical model • two technologies • understand channels of causality, derive qualitative findings - Numerical model • calibrated to North-…