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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Renewable Portfolio Standard"”.
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Establishing a new guideline for South Korea's Renewable Portfolio Standard
Feed-in Tariff (FIT) and Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) are the two most popular renewable energy regulations practiced around the world. The Feed-in Tariff mechanism is more popular in the European countries, while the Renewable Portfolio Standard is popular among several Asian and American …
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Policy innovation and change: the diffusion and modification of the renewable portfolio standard, 1994 – 2014
… federal government has not enacted a national renewable energy policy. Inertia at this level of government creates a policy space that allows American states to take the lead. State policy drives clean energy development. By the fall of 2014, every state in the nation had adopted at least one …
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Combining a renewable portfolio standard with a cap-and-trade policy : a general equilibrium analysis
… To investigate this question I focus on how a renewable portfolio standard (RPS) interacts with a cap-and-trade policy. An RPS specifies a certain percentage of electricity that must come from renewable sources such as wind, solar, and biomass. I use a computable general equilibrium (CGE) …
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Analysis of Solar Community Energy Storage for Supporting Hawaii's 100% Renewable Energy Goals
… PV generation has become an integral part of the renewable energy industry. With state-level, renewable portfolio standards in place, solar power demand has substantially increased and become a competitive and economically viable energy solution throughout the world. Hawaii has one of the most …
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An Analysis of Wind Power Plant Site Prospecting in the Central United States
… electricity transmission lines, existence of a Renewable Portfolio Standard, the population density within a 200 mile radius of the county center, median home values, and farm land area in the county are the four strongest nonconventional predictors (Hosmer and Lemeshow Chi-Square = 9.1250, N = …
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A Spatial Decision Support System for the Development of Multi-Source Renewable Energy Systems
… for energy planning through the increased use of renewable energy sources, while still considering the role of existing electricity generating facilities. This dissertation focuses on energy planning at the regional level, with the Greater Southern Appalachian Mountain region chosen for analysis …
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Renewable Electricity Support Policy
Renewable electricity (RES-E) is likely to play a major part in the reduction of Australia’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Because it is currently dearer than fossil-fuel-generated electricity, support mechanisms are needed to allow it to compete with fossil-fuel electricity. In the thesis I …
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Renewable Electricity Support Policy
Renewable electricity (RES-E) is likely to play a major part in the reduction of Australia’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Because it is currently dearer than fossil-fuel-generated electricity, support mechanisms are needed to allow it to compete with fossil-fuel electricity. In the thesis I …
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Three essays on energy economics: Policy options and evaluation
… emissions from energy production and to promote renewable energy. It also explains key factors that determine both the magnitude and the direction of each policy's effects on various economic and environmental outcomes. It consists of three chapters with studies in the context of both developed …
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Assessing the effectiveness of renewable-specific policies on global renewable capacities
… production of electricity capacity from renewables within their borders. While early policy adopters were mostly developed countries, the number of developing countries adopting renewable-specific policies has expanded dramatically in the past decade. Given that the increase in future …
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Three Essays in Applied Econometrics: with Application to Natural Resource and Energy Markets
… 1</p> <p>This essay examines the effect of state renewable energy policies in inducing innovation and the spillover effect of these policies on innovation in neighboring states. The analysis is conducted with patent data related to renewable technology using wind power for the United States over …
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Essays on the Economics of Renewable Energy
… basis of government policies and attainment of renewable energy deployment. Chapter Two describes the current policy initiative in Scotland to use market mechanisms to incentivise the deployment of renewable power technologies. The operation and effectiveness of the Renewables Obligation …
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Avoided Water Cost of Electricity Generation for Solar PV and Wind Technologies in Southern California
… Finally, the economic benefits of the California Renewables Portfolio Standard are calculated with respect to water consumption. By holding hydroelectricity, geothermal, biomass and CST production constant and utilizing solar PV and wind to meet the 33% renewables target by 2020, a water value of …
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The welfare cost and greenhouse gas emissions effects of sector-specific energy policies
… of a patchwork of technology and performance standards implemented in different economic sectors and at different levels of government, rather than a more efficient economy-wide carbon tax or cap-and-trade policy. This is evidenced by policies such as state-level Renewable Portfolio Standards …