Efficiency and effectiveness of promotion systems for electricity generation from renewable energy sources - Lessons from EU countries

Energy

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 2186-2193

  Haas, Reinhard ^a   Resch, Gustav ^a   Panzer, Christian ^a   Busch, Sebastian ^a   Ragwitz, Mario ^b   Held, Anne ^b  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS AND INNOVATION RESEARCH ISI   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cost effectiveness; Promotion schemes; Renewable energy

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION; COMMERCE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; COSTS; ELECTRIC GENERATORS;

ELECTRICITY GENERATION; EU COUNTRIES; INTRINSIC STABILITY; KEY ELEMENTS; MEMBER STATE; PROMOTION SCHEMES; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCE; SHORT-TERM TRADING; SOLAR PVS; TRADABLE GREEN CERTIFICATES; TRADING SYSTEMS;

RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; EUROPEAN UNION; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; RENEWABLE RESOURCE;

EID: 79952815757     PISSN: 03605442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2010.06.028     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. European Parliament and Council. Directive of the European parliament and of the council on the promotion of electricity produced from renewable energy sources in the internal electricity market. Directive 2001/77/EC - 27 September 2001, Brussels; 2001.
2. Directive on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources 2009, European Commission, Brussels.
3. Resch G, Faber T, Ragwitz M, Held A, Panzer C, Haas R. 20% RES by 2020 - a balanced scenario to meet Europe's renewable energy target. Report compiled by TU Wien/EEG in cooperation with Fraunhofer ISI within the Intelligent Energy for Europe - project futures-e (Contract no. EIE/06/143/SI2.444285). Vienna, Austria. Available at: http://www.futures-e.org/.
4. Johnston A., Neuhoff K., Fouquet D., Ragwitz M., Resch G. The proposed new EU renewables directive: interpretation, problems and prospects. European Energy and Environmental Law Review 2008, 17(3):126-145.
5. Lior N. Sustainable energy development: the present (2009) situation and possible paths to the future. Energy 35, pp. 2631-2638.
6. Haas R., Meyer N.I., Held A., Finon D., Lorenzoni A., Wiser R., et al. A review of promotion strategies for electricity from renewable energy sources. "Competitive electricity market" 2008, Elsevier Publishers. F.P. Sioshansi (Ed.).
7. Held A., Haas R., Ragwitz M. On the success of policy strategies for the promotion of electricity from renewable energy sources in the EU. Energy & Environment 2006, 17(6):849-868.
8. Auer H, Resch G, Haas R, Held A, Ragwitz M. Regulatory instruments to deliver the full potential of renewable energy sources efficiently. In: Special issue of the European review of energy markets (EREM) journal, on "incentives for a low-carbon energy future", vol. 3(2); 2009. p. 91-124.
9. Klessmann C., Ch Nabe, Burges K. Pros and cons of exposing renewables to electricity market risks-a comparison of the market integration approaches in Germany, Spain, and UK. Energy Policy 2008, 36:3646-3661.
10. Komor P. Renewable energy policy 2003, Diebold Institute for Public Policy Studies, New York.
11. Menanteau P., Finon D., Lamy M.L. Prices versus quantities: environmental policies for promoting the development of renewable energy. Energy Policy 2003, 31(8):799-812.
12. Meyer N.I. European schemes for promoting renewables in liberalised markets. Energy Policy 2003, 31(7):665-676.
13. Meyer N.I. Influence of government policy on the promotion of wind power. International Journal of Global Energy Issues 2006, 25(3/4):204-218.
14. Fürsch M., Golling C., Nicolosi M., Wissen R., Lindenberger D. European RES-E policy analysis - a model based analysis of RES-E deployment and its impact on the conventional power market 2010, Institute of Energy Economics at the University of Cologne.
15. Midtun A., Gautesen K. Feed in or certificates, competition or complementarity? combining a static efficiency and a dynamic innovation perspective on the greening of the energy industry. Energy Policy 2007, 35:1419-1422.
16. Haas R., Eichhammer W., Huber C., Langniss O., Lorenzoni A., Madlener R., et al. How to promote renewable energy systems successfully and effectively. Energy Policy 2004, 32(6):833-839.
17. Ragwitz M, Held A, Resch G, Faber T, Haas R, Huber C, et al. OPTRES. Assessment and optimisation of renewable energy support schemes in the European electricity market. Final report. Karlsruhe; 2007. Available at: http://www.optres.fhg.de.
18. Van der Linden NH, Uyterlinde MA, Vrolijk L, Nilsson J, Khan K, Astrand K, et al. Review of international experience with renewable energy obligation support mechanisms. Petten, Netherlands, ECN-C-05-025; 2005.
19. Jacobsson S., Bergek A., Finon D., Lauber V., Mitchell C., Toke D., et al. EU renewable energy support policy: faith or facts?. Energy Policy 2009, 37(6):2143-2146.
20. Ragwitz M., del Rio P., Resch G. Assessing the advantages and drawbacks of government trading of guarantees of origin for renewable electricity in Europe. Energy Policy 2009, 37:300-307.
21. Toke D. The EU renewables directive-what is the fuss about trading?. Energy Policy 2008, 36:3001-3008.
22. Verbruggen A. Tradable green certificates in Flanders (Belgium). Energy Policy 2004, 32(2):165-176.
23. Verbruggen A. Performance evaluation of renewable energy support policies, applied on Flanders' tradable certificates system. Energy Policy 2009, 37(4):1385-1394.
24. RWI. Economic impacts from the promotion of renewable energies: the German experience. Final report. RWI, Essen; 2009.
25. Sensfuss F, Ragwitz M, Kratzat M, Langniß O, Obersteiner C, Müller Th, et al. Fortentwicklung des Erneuerbaren Energien Gesetzes (EEG) zur Marktdurchdringung Erneuerbarer Energien im deutschen und europäischen Strommarkt. Karlsruhe; 2007.
26. Gómez A, Zubizarreta J, Dopazo C, Fueyo N. Spanish energy roadmap to 2020: socioeconomic implications of renewable targets. Energy, in press, doi:10.1016/j.energy.2010.02.046.
27. Munoz M., Oschmann V.T., Labara J.D. Harmonisation of renewable electricity feed-in laws in the European Union. Energy Policy 2007, 35:3104-3114.
28. Klessmann C., Lamers P., Ragwitz M., Resch G. Design options for cooperation mechanisms under the new European renewable energy directive. Energy Policy 2010, 38(2010):4679-4691.
29. Klessmann C. The evolution of flexibility mechanisms for achieving European renewable energy targets 2020-ex-ante evaluation of the principle mechanisms. Energy Policy 2009, 37:4966-4979.
30. Toke D. Renewable financial support systems and cost-effectiveness. Journal of Cleaner Production 2007, 15:280-287.