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

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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