Minister ends carbon charge for energy companies - The Irish Times - Mon, May 28, 2012

From next year, Irish energy companies will have to buy these credits at auctions or on the secondary carbon market. This is intended to act as a disincentive to climate change-causing pollution.

But in the current, preliminary phase of emissions trading, European energy companies receive most or all of their allowances free from the EU.

Nevertheless, Irish firms have been passing on a notional “opportunity cost” of carbon credits in their prices, which means that rather than being penalised for polluting they can actually make windfall profits under the emissions trading system.

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