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Sustainable Energy Policies for Europe
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Sustainable Energy Policies for Europe

by Rainer Hinrichs-Rahlwes
September 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
200 pages
10h 49m
English
CRC Press
Content preview from Sustainable Energy Policies for Europe
CHAPTER 6
Powerful national support systems versus Europe-wide
har monisation assessment of competing and converging
suppor t instr uments
Markus Kahles & Thorsten Müller
6.1 INTRODUCTION
“The time has come for energy policy to become truly European”. This is the claim made by the
European Commission with respect to energy-related issues (European Commission 2010, p. 4).
However, it raises the question how such a European approach can be structured in a meaningful
manner. Wanting to answer this question by saying that only a harmonised system can be European
would be premature and would negate differences as well as existing market failures and other
necessary learning processes. It is not only reactionary forces in the Member States who consider
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ISBN: 9780415620994