 Information and coercive regulation: The impact of fuel mix information disclosure on states’ adoption of renewable energy policyHyunhoe Bae and Sanguk Yu Energy Policy, 2018, vol. 117, issue C, 151-159 Abstract: This study examines whether the publicly provided information performs the role of a procedural policy expediting the adoption of a more coercive and substantive regulation by heightening public awareness and political legitimacy. Under the assumption this role of procedural policy may be critical, especially for the policy with distributed benefits and concentrated costs such as the renewable energy policy, this study examined the relationship between mandatory disclosure of the fuel mix information of electric utilities and states’ adoption of Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS). Our event history analysis results show that existence of the mandatory information disclosure rule on fuel fix and greenhouse gas emissions significantly increases the probability of adoption of the coercive regulation (RPS). The findings indicate states’ appropriate mix of policy tools could play a vital role in initiating high-resistance policy adoption. Keywords: Renewable Portfolio Standards; Information disclosure; Policy innovation; Procedural policy (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:enepol:v:117:y:2018:i:c:p:151-159 DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2018.03.010 Access Statistics for this article Energy Policy is currently edited by N. France More articles in Energy Policy from Elsevier |
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