Effects of the Uncertainty about Global Economic Recovery on Energy Transition and CO2 Price
Effects of the Uncertainty about Global Economic Recovery on Energy Transition and CO2 Price / Durand-Lasserve, O., A. Pierru and Y. Smeers. MIT CEEPR Working Paper No. WP-2011-003, Mar 2011, 28 p.
http://web.mit.edu/ceepr/www/publications/workingpapers/2011-003.pdf
This paper examines the impact that uncertainty over economic growth may have on global energy transition
and CO2 prices. We use a general-equilibrium model derived from MERGE, and define several stochastic
scenarios for economic growth. Each scenario is characterized by the likelihood of a rapid global economic
recovery. More precisely, during each decade, global economy may – with a given probability – shift from the
EIA’s (2010) low-economic-growth path to the EIA’s (2010) high-economic-growth path. The climate policy
considered corresponds in the medium term to the commitments announced after the Copenhagen
conference, and in the long term to a reduction of 25% in global energy-related CO2 emissions (with respect
to 2005). For the prices of CO2 and electricity, as well as for the implementation of CCS, the branches of the
resulting stochastic trajectories appear to be heavily influenced by agents’ initial expectations of future
economic growth and by the economic growth actually realized. Thus, in 2040, the global price of CO2 may
range from $21 (when an initially-anticipated economic recovery never occurs) to $128 (in case of nonanticipated
rapid economic recovery). In addition, we show that within each region, the model internalizes
the constraints limiting the expansion of each power-generation technology through the price paid by the
power utility for the acquisition of new production capacity. As a result, in China, the curves of endogenous
investment costs for onshore and offshore wind are all bubble-shaped centered on 2025, a date which
corresponds to the establishment of a global CO2 cap-and-trade market in the model. (© Durand-Lasserve, Pierru, Smeers)
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