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DOI	10.1016/j.enpol.2022.112892
	When indicators fail electricity policies: Pitfalls of the EU's retail energy market Barrier Index
	Almeida L.D.; Esposito F.; van Zeben J.
发表日期	2022
ISSN	0301-4215
卷号	165
英文摘要	An important goal of EU energy policy is to ensure energy justice during the green transition. The Commission considers the functioning and competitiveness of the retail energy market for households to be proxies for justice and consumer welfare. The European Barriers in Retail Energy Market Project (the EB Project) is instrumental in assessing and ensuring this competitiveness. The EB Project centres on the creation of the Barrier Index (BI), which identifies barriers to entry in the national markets for electricity and gas suppliers across the EU and ranks Member States on the basis of eight indicators. This article critically assesses the reliability of the BI. A faulty BI could lead Member States down the wrong path or towards bad decisions with respect to the regulation of the retail energy market in light of the EU's policy goals. This research identifies problems with the methodology and data collection regarding the construction of the BI indicators in the electricity market specifically. The latter is exemplified through case studies of the Dutch and Portuguese national reports. The identified issues call into question the reliability of the BI as a whole. Possible measures to improve the quality of indicators are discussed in the conclusions. © 2022 The Authors
英文关键词	Barrier index; Energy justice; Energy policy; Governance by indicators; Liability; Retail electricity market; Transparency
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Competition; Electric industry; Energy policy; Sales; Barrier index; Electricity policy; Energy justices; Energy markets; EU energy policies; Governance by indicator; Green transitions; Liability; Market barriers; Retail electricity markets; Power markets; electricity industry; energy management; energy policy; European Union; gas supply; governance approach; liability; retailing; Germany; Portugal
来源期刊	Energy Policy
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/256235
作者单位	Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands; European University Institute, Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies, Florence School of Regulation, Italy; NOVA School of Law, Portugal
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Almeida L.D.,Esposito F.,van Zeben J.. When indicators fail electricity policies: Pitfalls of the EU's retail energy market Barrier Index[J],2022,165.
APA	Almeida L.D.,Esposito F.,&van Zeben J..(2022).When indicators fail electricity policies: Pitfalls of the EU's retail energy market Barrier Index.Energy Policy,165.
MLA	Almeida L.D.,et al."When indicators fail electricity policies: Pitfalls of the EU's retail energy market Barrier Index".Energy Policy 165(2022).