FERC Technical Conference Highlights Carbon Pricing as a Cost-effective, Transparent, and Market-based Tool
“Ad hoc state policy has often led to mounting costs and anti-competitiveness concerns, which has renewed interest in exploring carbon pricing as the centerpiece of an economically sound climate strategy… Carbon pricing creates synergies with competitive electricity market structures by allowing investors to assemble risk-return trade-offs in lower emissions technologies, while driving dispatch and investment decisions in low-carbon technologies in an economically efficient manner.”
