CfDs to support renewables: the devil is in the details

In this new instalment of the FSR Insights series on “Developments in the European energy and climate policy”, FSR part-time professor Lena Kitzing provides her view on those discussions and illustrate the key messages of a recent FSR technical report, where she and her co-authors highlight how CfDs can come in many shapes and how hard it is to generalise about them. By referring to some concrete examples, Prof. Kitzing shows how the selection of alternative design options can lead to different results and that those results depend also on the specific context in which such a CfD is applied.