Overview of government and market driven programs for the promotion of renewable power generation

Thomas Ackermann, Göran Andersson and Lennart Söder

Renewable Energy, 2001, vol. 22, issue 1, 197-204

Abstract: This paper presents and briefly evaluates some existing government instruments and market schemes which support the development of renewable energy generation. The brief evaluation focuses on the incentives provided by the various instruments to reduce production costs. The instruments and schemes are: feed-in tariffs, net metering, bidding process, fixed quotas, green certificate trading, green power exchange, green pricing.

Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.1016/S0960-1481(00)00015-X

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