Transitioning to cleaner energy requires power pricing, regulatory changes: experts

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Pricing electricity will become increasingly challenging as energymarkets transition to cleaner, zero-marginal cost resources, withcapacity payments, scarcity pricing and non-volumetric pricingmechanisms potentially growing more important, experts said Thursday.“You can be reasonably sure most of the time that if you put anoffshore wind facility in place there is another source of electricitythat helps set the price,” Eirik Wærness, senior vice president andchief economist at Norwegian energy company Equinor, said duringa Columbia University Center on Global Energy Policy event in NewYork City.