Abstract

A multiplicity of energy and environmental policy instruments is targeting stakeholders along electricity supply and demand, overlapping with each other. Although synergies between different policy instruments may exist, e.g. reducing acidification and climate change by reducing energy consumption, there may also be antagonisms. Such antagonisms arise not only within different environmental policy instruments but also with energy policy instruments. The fact that the development of policies and their implementation using specific instruments is often disconnected creates a need to better integrate overlapping policy instruments. This paper surveys such overlaps in policy instruments in EU energy and environmental policies regarding electricity systems, characterising their interactions. An approach for further assessment and analysis of overlaps and co-effects between policy instruments is presented. A short discussion on how trade-offs can be structured is made, as well as some notes on issues to be considered towards policy integration.

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Panel 2. Making buildings more energy efficient

Panel 1. Strategies and integrated policies

Panel 3. Sustainable transport and land use

Panel 4. Market transformation

Panel 5. Evaluation and monitoring

Panel 6. Dynamics of consumption

Panel 7. New economic instruments