The importance of comprehensiveness in renewable electricity and energy-efficiency policy

Benjamin K. Sovacool

Energy Policy, 2009, vol. 37, issue 4, 1529-1541

Abstract: Based on extensive research interviews and supplemented with a review of the academic literature, this article assesses the best way to promote renewable energy and energy efficiency. It begins by briefly laying out why government intervention is needed, and then details the four most favored policy mechanisms identified by participants: eliminating subsidies for conventional and mature electricity technologies, pricing electricity accurately, passing a national feed-in tariff, and implementing a nationwide systems benefit fund to raise public awareness, protect lower income households, and administer demand side management programs. Drawing mostly from case studies in the United States, the article also discusses why these policy mechanisms must be implemented comprehensively, not individually, if the barriers to renewables and energy efficiency are to be overcome.

Keywords: Renewable; energy; Energy; efficiency; Energy; policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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