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- Title
Welfare and Redistribution in Residential Electricity Markets with Solar Power.
- Authors
Feger, Fabian; Pavanini, Nicola; Radulescu, Doina
- Abstract
An increasing number of households installing solar panels and consuming the energy thus produced raises two challenges for regulators: network financing and vertical equity. We propose alternative tariff and subsidy designs for policymakers to incentivize solar panel adoptions and guarantee that network costs are recovered, while trading off efficiency, equity, and welfare motives. We estimate a structural model of energy demand and solar panel adoption, using a unique matched dataset on energy consumption, prices, income, wealth, solar panel installations, and building characteristics for 165,000 households in Switzerland from 2008 to 2014. Our counterfactuals recommend the optimal solar panel installation cost subsidies and two-part energy tariffs to achieve a solar energy target. We show that, relative to installation cost subsidies, relying on marginal prices to incentivize solar panel adoptions is more cost efficient and progressive across the income distribution, but generates a larger aggregate welfare loss.
- Subjects
SWITZERLAND; SOLAR energy; ELECTRICITY markets; SOLAR panels; MARKET power; SOLAR power plants; ENERGY consumption; TARIFF
- Publication
Review of Economic Studies, 2022, Vol 89, Issue 6, p3267
- ISSN
0034-6527
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/restud/rdac005