Peer-reviewed article

“An overview of CO2 cost pass-through to electricity prices in Europe” in Energy Policy

Published on 05 June 2013

October 2013

The article « An overview of CO2 cost pass-through to electricity prices in Europe », by Pierre-André Jouvet and Boris Solier,  is published in Energy Policy.

Abstract:
This paper investigates the link between wholesale electricity prices in Europe and the CO2 cost, i.e. the price of European Union Allowances (EUAs), over the two first phases of the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). We set up a theoretical framework and an empirical model to estimate to what extent daily fluctuations of COcosts may have impacted electricity prices. Regarding estimation results for the first phase of the EU ETS, about 42% of estimated pass-through rates appear to be statistically significant, while only one third of them are statistically different from zero in the second phase. We try to improve those results by proposing alternative estimates based on the EU ETS compliance periods.

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