Who should pay to support renewable electricity? Exploring regressive impacts, energy poverty and tariff equity

P. Mastropietro

Energy Research & Social Science Vol. 56, pp. 101222-1 - 101222-7

Resumen:

Even if the cost of producing electricity from non-conventional renewable resources has significantly decreased during the last decades, the cost of supporting these technologies is expected to grow worldwide until 2035. If these costs keep on being recovered through surcharges in electricity tariffs that are proportional to consumption, they will have a strong regressive impact that may intensify energy poverty issues. This short article analyses this regressive effect and presents some alternative methodologies to allocate renewable support costs within the society, promoting a just energy transition.

Palabras Clave: Renewable energy; RES-E support; Electricity tariffs; Energy poverty; Energy transition

Índice de impacto JCR y cuartil WoS: 4,771 - Q1 (2019); 6,700 - Q1 (2022)

Referencia DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2019.101222

Publicado en papel: Octubre 2019.

Publicado on-line: Junio 2019.

Cita:
P. Mastropietro, Who should pay to support renewable electricity? Exploring regressive impacts, energy poverty and tariff equity. Energy Research & Social Science. Vol. 56, pp. 101222-1 - 101222-7, Octubre 2019. [Online: Junio 2019]