The Spanish Energy Transition into the EU Green Deal: Alignments and Paradoxes

Peña‐Ramos, José Antonio; Pino-García, María del; Bayón, Antonio Sánchez

doi:10.3390/en14092535

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“…The objective was to achieve the policies of Europe 2020 and the Kyoto Protocol [74,75]. Moreover, Spain followed a Sustainable Development Strategy, drawn up in 2007, to reduce energy dependence through the clean energy transition [3]. The proposed plan sought to ensure that green energy reliability contributes approximately 20% renewable energy in 2020 (i.e., more than double the 9.8% recorded in 2010).…”

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“…The government of Spain signed the EU Green Pact and the National Integrated Energy and Climate Plan (NIECP) 2021-2030 to increase the support policies for renewable energies [3][4][5]. However, legal entry barriers have fueled the investment bubble with a three-fold effect that has persisted since the beginning of the early twenty-first century.…”

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“…Energy dependence, climate change and international political agreements have promoted the clean energy transition as a central policy of the global community to overcome these challenges [1]. At present, the EU is fighting climate change through ambitious domestic policies and close cooperation with international partners [2,3]. While the European policy is based on the EU Green Deal to support renewable energies and stop climate change, revert biodiversity loss and cut pollution, this paper aims to analyze and discuss the distinctive features of the case of Spain [4,5].…”

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The Political Economy of Rent-Seeking: Evidence from Spain’s Support Policies for Renewable Energy

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This paper provides a theoretical framework to explore how the support policies for renewable energies can promote rent-seeking incentives in private firms. We develop a political economy of rent-seeking that considers the link between the regulatory decisions of political agents and the potential scope of socially wasteful pursuits. We argue that systematic public support schemes bring rent-seeking as a perception shared by entrepreneurs that influencing political allocations of resources is an essential and potentially preferable source of private profit than other for-profit economic avenues. As evidence of our claims, the framework is applied to the case of Spain to illustrate the economic effects of support policies on the production and distribution of renewable energy. We find rent-seeking behavior in Spain’s renewable energy industry, and precisely that: (i) political regulations have induced market concentration and rent-seeking in renewable energy firms, (ii) these firms have required increasing regulations and premiums to survive, and (iii) energy consumers are forced to pay rent-seeking through increasingly expensive electricity bills. The analysis reveals some challenges and opportunities to drive efficient market-based policies to strengthen entrepreneurial competition and curb rent-seeking behavior. These insights have relevant proposals for the Spanish energy industry in complying with the EU Green Deal through a sustainable transition and comprehensive growth.

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The Political Economy of Rent-Seeking: Evidence from Spain’s Support Policies for Renewable Energy

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“…Recently, based on free-market environmentalism, some literature has empirically shown how government intervention and regulation measures impede the RE market [ 29 , 30 ]. There are even some studies on Spain’s RE thesis [ 31 , 32 ]. Our previous research on the EU’s free-market energy transition in the case of Germany, Denmark, and the UK further concludes that state-interventionist policy as taxes, government subsidies, and industry access restrictions has impeded the energy transition in Germany, Denmark, and the UK.…”

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A Free-Market Environmentalist Enquiry on Spain’s Energy Transition along with Its Recent Increasing Electricity Prices

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This paper analyzes the Spanish energy transition’s general situation and its increasing electricity prices in recent years from a free-market environmentalist (FME) approach. We hypothesize and argue that high taxes, high government subsidies, and government industrial access restrictions breach private property rights, hindering Spain’s renewable energy (RE) development. Our paper discovers that Spain’s state-interventionist policies have increased the cost of the energy and power industries, leading to electricity prices remaining relatively high before and after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. After reviewing the literature on the FME approach and Spain’s case, a Box–Jenkins (ARIMA) model is used to clarify the economic performance of the Spanish electricity industry with a proposal for forecasting electricity prices. It is observed that Spain fails the EU and its national goal of providing an affordable energy price as a part of the green energy transition. Finally, free-market environmental solutions and policy reforms are proposed to facilitate Spain’s energy transition.

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“…Ziolo et al [15] and Akaev et al [16] supported the need to increase energy efficiency and to develop a good energy transition if sustainable development is to be reached. Peña-Ramos et al [17] studied the energy transition in Spain. Drozdz et al [18] studied the determinants of decarbonization and of the development of a sustainable energy system in Poland, and Zimon et al [19] studied the relationship between emissions, SDG, business models, and supply chains.…”

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A New Climate Change Analysis Parameter: A Global or a National Approach Dilemma

2022

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Climate change is an issue nowadays present in almost all of the media daily, but information can be manipulated very easily. It is a fact that, in the last decades, greenhouse gas emissions have multiplied, and to tackle climate change efficiently, it is necessary to analyze their origin and their relationship with regards to countries, population, production, etc. When analyzing a country’s emissions, not only the total emissions, but also the emissions in relation to its population, production, etc., should be considered. In this paper, a new parameter (CE2N) that merges total emissions, and emissions per capita and per GDP is proposed and applied, obtaining, for the first time, a unified and universal parameter that considers the emission efficiency and total emissions at the same time and can be used in all countries. We validated this new parameter with its implementation in previous environmental models, and the results obtained showed that CE2N would help to increase the transparency and objectivity of these models, giving more weight to emission efficiency, rather than other, more subjective criteria previously used. In addition, CE2N could be implemented in future international agreements, being beneficial not only for the scientific community, but also for policymakers.

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The Spanish Energy Transition into the EU Green Deal: Alignments and Paradoxes

Cited by 12 publications

References 13 publications

The Political Economy of Rent-Seeking: Evidence from Spain’s Support Policies for Renewable Energy

The Political Economy of Rent-Seeking: Evidence from Spain’s Support Policies for Renewable Energy

A Free-Market Environmentalist Enquiry on Spain’s Energy Transition along with Its Recent Increasing Electricity Prices

A New Climate Change Analysis Parameter: A Global or a National Approach Dilemma

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