Promoting Renewable Electricity Generation in Emerging Economies

Promoting Renewable Electricity Generation through Guaranteed Feed-in Tariffs vs Tradable Certificates: An Ecological Economics Perspective

For a variety of reasons it can be argued that the share of electricity generated from renewable energy sources should be increased. However, many of the new renewable energy technologies cannot yet successfully compete against conventional ones, and therefore support schemes are needed. A common approach, at least within the European Union, is the provision of guaranteed feed-in tariffs. More ...

Electricity Consumption and Economic Growth in Emerging Economies

Emerging economies have grown much faster than the advanced countries during the past decades. This study investigates the relationship between economic growth and electricity consumption in the emerging economies during the period 1970-2011 by using Pedroni, Kao and Johansen co-integration tests and Granger causality tests. We found that electricity consumption had a positive impact on the eco...

Successful integration of renewable electricity generation in the Gulf region

Promotion Systems for Electricity Generation from Renewable Energy Sources Revisited

To increase the share of electricity from renewable energy sources (RES-E) different strategies are implemented in various countries. The core objective of this paper is to extract lessons learned from promotion schemes in Europe and to derive resulting recommendations for future. The major results are: (i) The success stories of RES-E in Europe in recent years has been triggered by FITs; A wel...

Evaluating Policies to Increase Electricity Generation from Renewable Energy*

Building on a review of experience in the United States and the European Union, this article advances four main propositions concerning policies aimed at increasing electricity generation from renewable energy. First, who bears the short-run costs of programs to subsidize the generation of electricity from renewable sources varies with the organization of the electric power industry, and this v...