The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of renewable energy policies and financial development on CO2 emissions and economic growth in EU countries. The panel vector autoregression (PVAR) model is employed to investigate the relationship between renewable energy policies, financial...

While there is relatively limited disagreement on the general need for supporting the deployment of renewable energy sources for electricity generation (RES-E), there are diverging views on whether the granted support levels should be technology-neutral or technology-specific. In this paper we...

We explore trends in the deployment and integration of distributed generation in Germany, Denmark and Sweden. In particular, we examine the regulation of renewable energy generation with a focus on grid access and connection mechanisms. The high rate of distributed generation penetration in...

This paper proposes a novel approach for distributed energy resource (DER) expansion planning from investors' viewpoint based on a combination of dynamic programming algorithm and game theory. An innovative framework is proposed in this paper to consider different aspects of distributed energy...

This paper adopts a real options approach to analyze investment timing and capacity choice for renewable energy projects under different support schemes. The main purpose is to examine investment behavior under the most extensively employed support schemes, namely, feed-in tariffs and renewable...

European governments have agreed to increase the share of renewable energy in final energy consumption to 20% by 2020. A crucial question for policy makers is how to mobilise the additional capital investments in RE and which consumer expenditures are involved. The article describes policy...