Money to Burn? The High Cost of Energy Subsidies.
Mark
Kosmo, World Resources Institute. Review of subsidies to electricity,
coal, oil, and natural gas in 32 countries using primarily the
price-gap method.
Energy
World Fossil Fuel Subsidies and Global Carbon Emissions in a Model with Interfuel Substitution.
Bjorn
Larsen, World Bank Publication. Larsen's empirical framework for
estimating the level of world fossil fuel subsidies and analyzing their
implications for carbon dioxide emissions.
Inventory of public aid granted to different energy sources.
Commission
of the European Communities, Commission Staff Working Paper. Wide
ranging and detailed analysis of public support to various energy
sources. Assembled from existing sources, so some gaps are likely. Is
an update in the works?
The European Union's Energy Support Programs: Promoting Sustainability or Pollution?
Antony Froggatt for Greenpeace. Reviews environmental effects of EU energy support programs and identifies actions the EU and member states should take to reduce the environmental and fiscal impacts of these programs. EUROPEAN UNION MEMBER STATES
Energy Subsidies in the European Union: A Brief Overview
Matthew Savage with Paul Baruya and Jack Cunningham for the European Environment Agency. Reviews subsidy types, estimation techniques, and benefits of reform within the EU context.
Subsidies and Sustainable Rural Energy Services: Can We Create Incentives Without Distorting Markets?
Douglas F. Barnes and Jonathan
Halpern, The World Bank. Paper analyzes the difficulties in trying to
extend basic energy services to poor or remote populations in an
efficient manner. They note many examples where substantial funding has
subsidized wealthier members of the population rather than the poor as
originally planned.
A Note on the Concept of "Subsidy"
Energy Policy, v. 23, No. 6, pp. 483-84. Copyrighted material; unfortunately link is to abstract only.
Defining and Measuring Environmentally-Harmful Subsidies in the Energy Sector
Presented at OECD Workshop on Environmentally Harmful Subsidies, November 7-8, 2002. Discusses methods for measuring the impact of environmentally harmful subsidies.
Energy Taxes and Subsidies: A Report to the Energy Policy Project of The Ford Foundation
Gerard M. Brannon. A 1974 report to the Energy Policy Project of the Ford Foundation that examines the role of energy subsidies and taxes as instruments of government policy. It is one of the earlier assessments of this problem. A premise of the report is the exploration of how subsidies and taxation affected the "energy crisis" of the early 1970's and how they could be utilized to generate more favorable responses and outcomes to future crises.
The Climate of Export Credit Agencies
Export
credit and insurance plays an important role in energy markets by
subsidizing the sale and implementation of particular energy
technologies. However, the environmental and social impacts of export
credit and investment insurance agency (ECA) activities have received
limited public scrutiny.