Handbook on the Economics of Renewable Energy

Edited by Pablo del Río, Senior Researcher, Institute for Public Policies and Goods (IPP), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Spain and Mario Ragwitz, Director, Fraunhofer Research Institution for Energy Infrastructures and Geothermal Systems (IEG) and Full Professor, Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU CS), Germany

Contents:

1 Introduction to the Handbook on the Economics of Renewable Energy 1
Pablo del Río and Mario Ragwitz

PART I SETTING THE SCENE: THEORETICAL/METHODOLOGICAL GUIDELINES ON THE ECONOMICS OF RENEWABLE ENERGY
2 Costs and benefits of the energy transition 11
Barbara Breitschopf, Julia Panny and Anne Held
3 Energy system modelling of renewable energy and related energy infrastructure needs 41
Gustav Resch, Franziska Schöniger, Florian Hasengst, Demet Suna, Gerhard Totschnig and Frank Sensfuß
4 Econometric modeling of renewable energy deployment 77
Consolación Quintana-Rojo, Miguel-Ángel Tarancón and Fernando Callejas-Albiñana

PART II FOCUS ON SOCIOECONOMIC BENEFITS
5 Extended input-output tables to analyze the benefits of renewable energy deployment 101
Santacruz Banacloche, Ana Rosa Gamarra, Natàlia Caldés and Yolanda Lechón
6 The socioeconomic benefits of renewable energy projects 118
Ana Rosa Gamarra, Santacruz Banacloche, Natàlia Caldés and Yolanda Lechón
7 Green jobs in the Spanish renewable energy sector: an input-output approach 138
Manuel Tomás, Ignacio Cazcarro, Julen Montilla, Cristina Pizarro-Irizar and Iñaki Arto

PART III FOCUS ON COSTS
8 The grid costs of renewable energy deployment 158
Joan Batalla-Bejerano, Daniel Davi-Arderius and Elisa Trujillo-Baute
9 Guiding the transition: design challenges in decarbonising electricity markets 179
Timo Gerres, José Pablo Chaves,Francisco Martín, Michel Rivier, Álvaro Sánchez and Tomás Gómez

PART IV FOCUS ON THE BOTTOM-UP: SELF-GENERATION AND COLLECTIVE ENERGY ACTIONS
10 An economic approach to photovoltaic microgeneration 206
Pere Mir-Artigues
11 Enhancing energy democracy and tackling energy poverty by fostering the uptake of renewable energy: the case of Greece 231
Eleni Kanellou, Ifigenia Tsakalogianni, Haris Doukas and Yannis Maniatis

PART V FUTURE-LOOKING PERSPECTIVES: GEOPOLITICAL, RISKS/FINANCIAL AND INNOVATION PERSPECTIVES
12 The economic benefits of renewable energies: a geopolitical perspective 251
Gonzalo Escribano and Lara Lázaro Touza
13 Drivers and barriers to renewable electricity technologies: lessons from the technological innovation system approach 284
Pablo del Río and Christoph P. Kiefer
14 Analyzing the suitability and role of modern portfolio theory for renewable energy planning 308
Fernando de Llano Paz, Javier Eduardo Afonso Arévalo and Guillermo Iglesias Gómez
15 A mixed-integer linear programming approach for an optimal-economic design of renewable district heating systems: a case study for a German grid 340
Maximilian Sporleder, Michael Rath, Markus Jansen and Robin Mann

PART VI RENEWABLE ENERGY POLICY
16 The economic analysis of renewable energy policies: a general overview and a historical perspective 365
Christoph P. Kiefer, Pablo del Río, Leticia García-Martínez
17 Renewable energy auctions: an overview 392
Vasilios Anatolitis, Jenny Winkler
18 The role of design elements in instrument mixes: the case of auctions and renewable portfolio standards in South Korea 420
Tae-Hyeong Kwon and Pablo del Río
19 Climate-related development aid for renewable energy projects: an analysis of its trends and role in fostering the low carbon transition in official development aid recipients 442
Cristina Peñasco
20 Conclusion to the Handbook on the Economics of Renewable Energy 471
Pablo del Río and Mario Ragwitz
Index 475