In recent years, more and more countries enact a variety of policy targets for future shares and amounts of renewable … energy. This article explores existing policy directives on renewable literature and in so doing, it demonstrate policy gaps …. In contribution to a plethora of existing literature on renewable energy policies it argues that there is more than one …

be met by Renewable Energy (RE) sources by 2020. Given the limited use of RE sources for electricity generation, this … national Renewable Energy Target (RET) leaves state, territory and municipal governments in a challenging policy position. In …

Recent success in the installation of renewable energy is largely due to public financial incentives. Data reported in … this article show the incessant growth of renewable energy implementation and the key process for achieving the complete …

This article argues that insights from agent-based analysis can be key to successful implementation of renewable energy … by details of the conceptual agent-based structure. The framework is applied to renewable energy policies in Germany from …

In this paper, issues of security of supply, energy spillage control, and peaking options, within a fully renewable … electricity system, are addressed. We show that a generation mix comprising 49% hydro, 23% wind, 13% geothermal, 14% pumped hydro … 1931. Hydro spillage was minimised, or eliminated, by curtailing a proportion of geothermal generation. Wind spillage was …

Utilization of renewable energy technologies remains one of the major energy policies throughout the world. These … benefits of renewable energy sources, the Government of Nepal has initiated the production and distribution of renewable energy … optimal utilization of renewable energy resources in isolated and poor rural communities. In addition, major promotional …

current issues relevant to the renewable energy sources (RES) such as the climatic factors that affect the penetration of RES … characteristics and natural resources to identify islands with higher and lower renewable energy potentials. The study revealed that … renewable energy applications in non-grid interconnected islands in Greece. …