Renewable Portfolio Standards and Policy Stringency
An Assessment of Implementation and Outcomes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5132425 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nikolay Anguelov (0000-0003-1675-6614, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, corresponding author), William F Dooley (Clean Harbors Inc) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 195-216 |
| Publication date | 2019-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Review of Policy Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1541-132X • E-ISSN: 1541-1338 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/ropr.12322 |
| OpenAlex | W2754312153 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 54 |
This research examines the impact of increasing the stringency of renewable portfolio standards (RPS) on the consumption of energy produced from renewable sources. Putting prior findings in the context of policy learning, first we focus on technological innovation, factor endowments, and economic energy dependence of American states to track how RPS have proliferated and strengthened. Next, we look at the net effect of this RPS evolution on state fossil fuel energy divestment. To evaluate the interplay between: a) the political desire to lower fossil fuel use, b) technological feasibility to do so, and c) the economic trade-offs and risks, we focus on the industrial sector dependence on energy security and affordability. Our results indicate that energy security is a priority and even in light of increasing RPS stringency, states with relatively weak but mandatory RPS are leaders in aggregate renewable energy consumption. This fact is due to favoring biofuel and hydro generation rather than solar and wind because of lower deployment costs
Business · Economics · Environmental economics · Portfolio · Public economics · Renewable energy · Engineering · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · State Capitalism and Financial Governance · Sustainable Finance and Green Bonds · Finance
Democratic Laboratories
Why Do States Adopt Renewable Portfolio Standards?
Household actions can provide a behavioral wedge to rapidly reduce US carbon emissions
Models of Decision Making and Residential Energy Use
State renewable energy electricity policies
Specification Tests in Econometrics
State Incentive Packages and the Industrial Location Decision
Assessing the costs and benefits of US renewable portfolio standards
Measuring Citizen and Government Ideology in the U.S. States
Clean-energy policies and electricity sector carbon emissions in the U.S. states
Renewable energy potential and adoption of renewable portfolio standards
Revisiting renewable portfolio standard effectiveness
Shifting Winds
Kindred spirits or intergovernmental competition? The innovation and diffusion of energy policies in the American states (1990–2008)
Policy Diffusion
Disentangling Diffusion
Regulatory Stringency and Policy Drivers
Adoption, reinvention and amendment of renewable portfolio standards in the American states
Measuring Citizen and Government Ideology in the American States, 1960-93
Policy Tool Interactions and the Adoption of State Renewable Portfolio Standards
The Adoption of State Climate Change Policies and Renewable Portfolio Standards
State Lottery Adoptions as Policy Innovations
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,8 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |