Renewable Energy Payment Policies

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Renewable Energy Payment Policies

Jennifer Gleason ELAW
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Renewable Energy Policies

• Quota System
• Sets the
• Utility production

• Price System
• Sets the
• Main Street production

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Elements of a Good REP

• Long term
• Profitable price
• Priority access
• Differentiated prices (resource, size, location,
  etc)
• Protection from inflation
• Decrease prices over time (cost reductions)

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Other Policies

• Net metering
• Tax Incentives

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Wind Energy Production
Area
Germany 357,030 km² US 8,154,157 km²
Oregon 255,026 km²
23 times larger, without Alaska
Installed Capacity (2006)
Germany 20,622 MW US
11,603 MW Oregon 817 MW
Stats American Wind Energy Assoc. http//www.awea
.org/newsroom/releases/Wind_Power_Capacity_012307.
html And German government http//www.german-ren
ewable-energy.com/Renewables/Navigation/Englisch/w
ind-power.html
Map credit Ryan Perroy, University of
California, Santa Barbara
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Photovoltaics Energy Production
Area
Germany 357,030 km² US 8,154,157 km²
23 times larger,
without Alaska
Installed Capacity (2007)
Germany 3,830 MW US 636
MW
Stats http//www.energy.eu/renewables/member-char
ts/photovoltaic-capacities.html http//www.renewab
leenergyworld.com/rea/news/infocus/story?id54026
Map credit Ryan Perroy, University of
California, Santa Barbara
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Comparisons between deployment support through
tradable quotas and feed-in tariff price supports
suggest that feed-in mechanisms achieve larger
deployment at lower costs. Stern, N.
(2007) The Economics of Climate Change - Stern
Review, Part IV Policy Responses for Mitigation,
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK
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Contribution of renewable energy sources to
energy supply 2000 - 2007
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JOB CREATION IN GERMANY

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Additional Costs 1990-2030
Development of the estimated differential costs
and the additional EEG-Costs for households (per
person and month, basis 2007)
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Introduction of REPs in the U.S.
http//www.allianceforrenewableenergy.org/us-reps.
html
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http//www.onlinepact.org/
http//www.elaw.org/
http//www.allianceforrenewableenergy.org/