Auctions are currently the dominant and most rapidly expanding form of support for
renewable energy project deployment, capturing the interests of policy-makers and …

An increasing number of countries use auctions to allocate support for renewable energies.
One major objective of policymakers when designing auctions is support cost efficiency, ie …

Governments use procurement auctions for renewable energy support to stimulate
investment in renewable energy. The main challenge in auction design is the balance …

Auctions have become the main instrument of choice to support renewable electricity around
the world. This is probably due to their alleged virtues in terms of efficiency. However …

Offshore wind capacity has increased significantly over the past decade with 16 GW
installed by the end of 2017. Offshore wind technologies present an effective tool for EU …

Competitive bidding programmes, or auctions, are becoming the dominant method for
procuring utility-scale renewable energy generation capacity and have coincided with …

Renewable energy auctions have been lauded for bringing about price reductions.
However, the methods applied in investigating such impacts have so far been inadequate …

The Sub-Sahara African electricity sector stands out for all the wrong reasons. It is the world
region with the lowest per capita electricity consumption–181 kWh per person each year, or …

Two major subsidy schemes for small-scale solar panels in Australia, namely feed-in tariffs
(FiTs) and the Small-scale Renewable Energy Scheme (SRES), have substantial inequity …

An abundant literature on the advantages and drawbacks of different auction design
elements exists. However, their comparative effects on market concentration have not been …