- Finished reading the U.S. EIA report comparing RE policies in U.S. to Germany, Denmark, Netherlands, Japan. Highlights need for ongoing and consistent government support, especially through attractive financial incentives. Notes Denmark's success in getting lots of constituencies on board through promoting community-scale wind turbines and subsidized replacement of older, louder turbines. Written in 2004, but would need to do some updating to use this information.
- Read through p20 of Sawin's National Policy Instruments 2004 paper. Very well-written and content-ful discussion of RE promotion instruments. Clearly in favor of feed-in laws (what she calls pricing measures) over quota measures, though notes that there is still limited experience with latter. Also in favor of rebates and payments over investment or production tax credits, since, among other reasons, they do not favor those with higher incomes (and therefore higher tax burdens).
- Found out that IEA Energy Policies 2006 book is not available through interlibrary loan. :(
Next up:
- Finish Sawin's paper
- Read Energy Policy 2006 article on RE Policies in Europe
- Look at REN21 document again to see what other countries to research
- Look through other saved papers to see what might be useful (possibly paper on China - don't forget to look at non-European countries' energy promotion policies)
- Pick up held book from library
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