Renewable energy remains a contested topic in South Africa. This paper argues that South Africa can build on the momentum surrounding its introduction of a feed-in tariff by enacting policies that may, if given adequate funding and political effort, allow the country to be a world leader in...

Recognizing the sustainable development potential of incentivizing domestic renewable energy generation, the Province of Ontario (Canada) presciently implemented the Green Energy Act in 2009. The feed-in tariff provisions of this Act provided guaranteed, premium price contracts for new renewable...

As one of the largest and wealthiest countries in the world, Canada stands well-positioned to take advantage of ongoing growth in North American demand for primary energy supply by expanding domestic delivery of renewable energy generation to internationally interconnected electric grids across...

Ongoing shifts in energy supply and demand dynamics have created extensive, volatile mismatches in electricity spot market pricing between neighboring Canadian and US jurisdictions. Under such circumstances, it is tempting to assume that additional international transmission interconnections are...