Driving energy
The Enactment and Ambitiousness of State Renewable Energy Policy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7323115 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Berry (0000-0001-7921-2468, University of Colorado Denver), Michael J Berry (0000-0002-3231-6937), Frank N Laird (0000-0001-9595-6707, University of Denver), Christoph H Stefes (0000-0002-2876-5713, University of Colorado Denver) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 297-328 |
| Publication date | 2015-02-09 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Public Policy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0143-814X • E-ISSN: 1469-7815 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0143814x15000045 |
| OpenAlex | W2133595021 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 37 |
U.S. states have led the federal government in instituting policies aimed at promoting renewable energy. Nearly all research on renewable portfolio standards (RPSs) has treated RPS adoption as a binary choice. Given the substantial variation in the renewable energy goals established by RPSs, we propose a new measure of RPS ambition that accounts for the amount of additional renewable energy production needed to reach the RPS goal and the number of years allotted to reach the standard. By measuring RPS policy with more precision, our analysis demonstrates that many factors found to affect whether a state will adopt an RPS do not exert a similar effect on the policy’s ambitiousness. Most notably, our analysis demonstrates that Democratic control of the state legislature is the most consequential factor in determining the ambitiousness of state RPS policies
Business · Democracy · Economics · Energy policy · Environmental economics · Feed-in tariff · Government (linguistics · Legislature · Political science · Politics · Portfolio · Public economics · Renewable energy · Renewable portfolio standard · State (computer science · Climate Change Policy and Economics · Computer Science · Engineering · Finance · Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
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| Unique citing works | 16 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,6 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2025 (10) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |