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The Market for Energy

In: A Time for Choosing

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  • Kwasi Kwarteng
  • Ryan Bourne

    (Institute of Economic Affairs)

  • Jonathan Dupont

    (Policy Exchange)

Abstract

Our current energy policy rests on an expensive bet that oil prices will rise, while the cost of renewables comes down. Unfortunately, crucial uncertainties remain over the path of oil prices, the political realities in emerging nations, the climate and the future cost of renewables. Given this uncertainty, markets remain the best way to increase energy supply and manage climate change. Rather than try to plan future technologies, the government would do better to restrict itself to subsidies and prizes for advances in basic research.

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  • Kwasi Kwarteng & Ryan Bourne & Jonathan Dupont, 2015. "The Market for Energy," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Kwasi Kwarteng & Ryan Bourne & Jonathan Dupont (ed.), A Time for Choosing, chapter 5, pages 112-128, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-48257-0_6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-137-48257-0_6
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