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

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.

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Year of publication:	2001
Authors:	Ackermann, Thomas ; Andersson, Göran ; Söder, Lennart
Published in:	Renewable Energy. - Elsevier, ISSN 0960-1481. - Vol. 22.2001, 1, p. 197-204
Publisher:	Elsevier

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Type of publication:	Article
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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