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The politics of (bad) policy design: French solar panels and Northern Irish boilers

Environmental Europe

As one previous post on this blog detailed, the current political turmoil in Northern Ireland was sparked by a subsidy for renewable energy production. Though it is tempting to blame political carelessness, the ongoing RHI scandal prompts a broader reflection about renewable energy policy instruments. data: SOeS ). speculative ones.