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- Title
Electricity Price Increase in Texas: What is the Role of RPS?
- Authors
Maguire, Karen; Munasib, Abdul
- Abstract
Over the last two decades, more than half of the states in the United States have adopted a renewable portfolio standard (RPS). While vital environmental goals underlie the rationale for RPS there is a rising concern that the policy may lead to increased electricity prices. Using the synthetic control method we conduct a comparative case study of Texas, an early adopter of RPS and arguably a success story. Our statistical tests find no evidence that RPS was a contributing factor in Texas’s electricity price increase.
- Subjects
TEXAS; ELECTRIC rates; RENEWABLE portfolio standards; PRICE increases; ENERGY conservation standards; ELECTRIC utilities
- Publication
Environmental & Resource Economics, 2018, Vol 69, Issue 2, p293
- ISSN
0924-6460
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10640-016-0079-2