The dynamics of technology diffusion and the impacts of climate policy instruments in the decarbonisation of the global electricity sector. Mercure, J. -., Pollitt, H., Chewpreecha, U., Salas, P., Foley, A. M., Holden, P. B., & Edwards, N. R. Energy Policy. ![The dynamics of technology diffusion and the impacts of climate policy instruments in the decarbonisation of the global electricity sector [link]](https://bibbase.org/img/filetypes/link.svg "link")
Paper doi abstract bibtex This paper presents an analysis of climate policy instruments for the decarbonisation of the global electricity sector in a non-equilibrium economic and technology diffusion perspective. Energy markets are driven by innovation, path-dependent technology choices and diffusion. However, conventional optimisation models lack detail on these aspects and have limited ability to address the effectiveness of policy interventions because they do not represent decision-making. As a result, known effects of technology lock-ins are liable to be underestimated. In contrast, our approach places investor decision-making at the core of the analysis and investigates how it drives the diffusion of low-carbon technology in a highly disaggregated, hybrid, global macroeconometric model, FTT:Power-E3MG. Ten scenarios to 2050 of the electricity sector in 21 regions exploring combinations of electricity policy instruments are analysed, including their climate impacts. We show that in a diffusion and path-dependent perspective, the impact of combinations of policies does not correspond to the sum of impacts of individual instruments: synergies exist between policy tools. We argue that the carbon price required to break the current fossil technology lock-in can be much lower when combined with other policies, and that a 90% decarbonisation of the electricity sector by 2050 is affordable without early scrapping.
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title = {The dynamics of technology diffusion and the impacts of climate policy instruments in the decarbonisation of the global electricity sector},
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doi = {10.1016/j.enpol.2014.06.029},
abstract = {This paper presents an analysis of climate policy instruments for the decarbonisation of the global electricity sector in a non-equilibrium economic and technology diffusion perspective. Energy markets are driven by innovation, path-dependent technology choices and diffusion. However, conventional optimisation models lack detail on these aspects and have limited ability to address the effectiveness of policy interventions because they do not represent decision-making. As a result, known effects of technology lock-ins are liable to be underestimated. In contrast, our approach places investor decision-making at the core of the analysis and investigates how it drives the diffusion of low-carbon technology in a highly disaggregated, hybrid, global macroeconometric model, FTT:Power-E3MG. Ten scenarios to 2050 of the electricity sector in 21 regions exploring combinations of electricity policy instruments are analysed, including their climate impacts. We show that in a diffusion and path-dependent perspective, the impact of combinations of policies does not correspond to the sum of impacts of individual instruments: synergies exist between policy tools. We argue that the carbon price required to break the current fossil technology lock-in can be much lower when combined with other policies, and that a 90\% decarbonisation of the electricity sector by 2050 is affordable without early scrapping.},
urldate = {2014-07-25},
journal = {Energy Policy},
author = {Mercure, J. -F. and Pollitt, H. and Chewpreecha, U. and Salas, P. and Foley, A. M. and Holden, P. B. and Edwards, N. R.},
keywords = {Climate change mitigation, climate policy, Emissions reductions pathways, Energy systems modelling},
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