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Towards an international tradable green certificate system—The challenging example of Belgium

By UIE webmaster / Published on Tue, 02/09/2010 - 12:40

In Europe, a common framework for renewable energy sources (RES) is aspired. Tradable green certificates (TGCs) are a marketbased cost-efficient means to stimulate electricity production from RES. Since TGCs are the most widespread support scheme in Europe together with feed-in tariffs, chances are that a common European framework could well be based on TGCs. However, while integrating currently existing different national TGC systems, any remaining differences should be carefully considered.

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Does More International Transmission Capacity Increase Competition in the Belgian Electricity Market?

By UIE webmaster / Published on Mon, 02/01/2010 - 19:23

From a national market perspective, taking transmission capacity into account reduces current concentration measures, although they remain fairly high even after substantial capacity increases. From an international perspective, a more efficient use of current transmission capacity by coupling regional markets can increase competition. That suggests it may not be appropriate to assess market concentration using national market shares.

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