Journal articleAuthors : Newbery, David (2018)
Given the agreed urgency of decarbonizing electricity and the need to guide decentralized
private decisions, an adequate and credible carbon price appears essential. The paper
models and quantifies the break-even carbon price for mature zero-carbon electricity
investments. It appears an attractive alternative given the difficulty of measuring the social
cost of carbon, but modelling shows it extremely sensitive to projected fuel prices,...