Designing and implementing a renewable energy policy involves political decisions and actors. Yet most research on renewable energy policies comparatively evaluates instruments from an economic or technical perspective. This paper presents a case study of Ontario’s feed-in tariff policies between 1997 and 2012 to analyze how the political process affects renewable energy policy design and imple...

Renewable electricity development has taken different paths across countries. With few exceptions, the recent literature has focused on different policy frameworks for renewable energy development, for example, the differences between feed-in tariffs (FIT) and renewable portfolio standards (RPS). This study brings politics back in to the study of renewable energies. Feed-in tariffs, renewable p...

This paper takes the ‘policy failure’ in establishing a global carbon price for efficient emissions reduction as a starting point and analyzes to what extent technology policies can be a reasonable second-best approach. From a supply-side perspective, carbon capture and storage (CCS) policies differ substantially from renewable energy policies: they increase fossil resource demand and simultane...

Policies to promote renewable energy have been gaining momentum throughout the world, often justified by environmental and energy security concerns. This paper delves into the economic motivation for renewable energy policies by articulating the classes of market failures relevant to renewable energy. We describe how these market failures may vary atemporally or intertemporally, and why the tem...

The formulation and evaluation of renewable energy policies is a burning subject matter all over the globe. Policy makers seek to cautiously perceive information from the renewable energy market place so as to determine the dynamic factors, variables and policy parameters that influence the design of renewable energy policies. The perceived information is often imprecise or fuzzy, which makes p...

The exploitation of renewable energy sources has assumed a significant role, especially in an integrated vision of problems concerning energy policies, The 2009/28/EC Directive of the European Parliament and Council has indicated ambitious energy and climate change objectives for 2020 (according to the so-called “EU2020 Strategy”): greenhouse gas emissions reduction for 20%, renewable energy in...