Towards market-responsive policy design for distributed renewable energy

Abstract

Travis Bradford explores different policies which have proven to be successful in stimulating the development and deployment of renewable energy technologies, in particular photovoltaic (PV) electricity. Case studies from Asia, Europe and the US are compared and analysed in order to demonstrate the positive aspects of different programmes and policies used to successfully adopt and distribute PV electricity. Market-responsive programmes, renewable portfolio standards and municipal loan programmes show the best results overall, and thus future policies should be based on these strategies.