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Have State Renewable Portfolio Standards Really Worked?: Synthesizing Past Policy Assessments

Shrimali, Gireesh; Jenner, Steffen; Groba, Felix; Chan, … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012

Renewable portfolio standards (RPS) are the most popular U.S. state-level policies for promoting deployment of renewable electricity (RES-E). While several econometric studies have estimated the effect of RPS on in-state RES-E deployment, results are contradictory. We reconcile these studies and...

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Methodologies for Assessment of Building's Energy Efficiency and Conservation: A Policy-Maker View

Novikova, Aleksandra - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

Recent global peer-review reports have concluded on importance of buildings in tacking the energy security and climate change challenges. To integrate the buildings energy efficiency into the policy agenda, significant research efforts have been recently done. More specifically, the public...

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Mitigation of Methane Emissions: A Rapid and Cost-Effective Response to Climate Change

Kemfert, Claudia; Schill, Wolf-Peter - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

Methane is a major anthropogenic greenhouse gas, second only to carbon dioxide (CO2) in its impact on climate change …. Methane (CH4) has a high global warming potential that is 25 times as large as the one of CO2 on a 100 year time horizon … dispersed, and not related to energy sectors. In this report, we analyze methane emission abatement options in five different …

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A Greenfield Model to Evaluate Long-Run Power Storage Requirements for High Shares of Renewables

Zerrahn, Alexander; Schill, Wolf-Peter - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2015

We develop a dispatch and investment model to study the role of power storage and other flexibility options in a greenfield setting with high shares of renewables. The model captures multiple system values of power storage related to arbitrage, dispatchable capacity, and reserves. In a baseline...

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Subsidies for Learning in Renewable Energy Technologies under Market Power and Emission Trading

Traber, Thure; Kemfert, Claudia - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

Under perfect competition on the output market, first best technology subsidies in the presence of learning by doing are justified by knowledge spill overs that are not accounted for by individual companies. First best output subsidies are thus depending directly on the learning effects and are,...

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Assessing the Strength and Effectiveness of Renewable Electricity Feed-in Tariffs in European Union Countries

Groba, Felix; Indvik, Joe; Jenner, Steffen - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

In the last two decades, feed-in tariffs (FIT) and renewable portfolio standards (RPS) have emerged as two of the most popular policies for supporting renewable electricity (RES-E) generation in the developed world. A few studies have assessed their effectiveness, but most do not account for...

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Residual Load, Renewable Surplus Generation and Storage Requirements in Germany

Schill, Wolf-Peter - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013

We examine the effects of future renewable expansion in Germany on residual load and renewable surplus generation for policy-relevant scenarios for 2022, 2032 and 2050. We also determine the storage capacities required for taking up renewable surpluses for varying levels of accepted curtailment....

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Integrating Intermittent Renewable Wind Generation: A Stochastic Multi-Market Electricity Model for the European Electricity Market

Abrell, Jan; Kunz, Friedrich - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013

In northern Europe wind energy has become a dominating renewable energy source due to natural conditions and national support schemes. However, the uncertainty about wind generation affects existing network infrastructure and power production planning of generators and cannot not be fully...

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Power System Impacts of Electric Vehicles in Germany: Charging with Coal or Renewables?

Schill, Wolf-Peter; Gerbaulet, Clemens - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2015

We analyze future scenarios of integrating electric vehicles (EV) into the German power system, drawing on different assumptions on the charging mode. We use a numerical dispatch model with a unit-commitment formulation which minimizes dispatch costs over a full year. While the overall energy...

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Innovative Activity in Wind and Solar Technology: Empirical Evidence on Knowledge Spillovers Using Patent Data

Braun, Frauke G.; Schmidt-Ehmcke, Jens; Zloczysti, Petra - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

This paper studies technological change in renewable energies, providing empirical evidence on the determinants of innovative activity with a special emphasis on the role of knowledge spillovers. We investigate two major renewable energy technologies - wind and solar - across a panel of 21 OECD...

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