RE Policy Sources

Renewable Energy Fact Sheets - EU Countries - Jan 2007 (URLs have following form)
http://ec.europa.eu/energy/energy_policy/doc/factsheets/renewables/renewables_de_en.pdf

Best Practice Paper for Feed-in (2006 or 2007), 87 pp
http://www.feed-in-cooperation.org/images/files/best_practice_paper_final.pdf
Have notes in this on separate post

German Government Renewable Energy Documents in English
http://www.erneuerbare-energien.de/inhalt/36356/
**All the IEA publications available free online by searching for desired publication
http://miranda.sourceoecd.org/

**IEA Renewable Energy Policies and Measures DB
http://www.iea.org/textbase/pm/grindex.aspx

REN21's Renewable Global Status Report - 2006 Update
Wiki: http://gsr.ren21.net/index.php?title=Main_Page

EIA's page on Renewable Energy
http://www.eia.doe.gov/fuelrenewable.html
Report on to promote non-hydro RE in U.S. and selected countries (Germany, Denmark, Netherlands, Japan) 1970-2003
http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/solar.renewables/page/non_hydro/nonhydro_toc.html

DSIRE: Database of state and federal incentives for RE
http://www.erec-renewables.org/141.0.html

European Renewable Energy Council
National Policy - Overview of EU member states DO SOMETHING LIKE THIS WITH WRITEUP FOR EACH COUNTRY AND OVERVIEW SECTION?
http://www.erec-renewables.org/141.0.html

GAO 2005 Inventory of Major Federal Energy Programs (142 pp)
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d05379.pdf

Renewable Energy Policy References - big list of links
http://www.martinot.info/policies.htm

Sawin 2004 paper on National Policy Instruments for RE promotion, saved to hard drive
http://www.ontario-sea.org/ARTs/SawinWorldWatchTBP03-policies.pdf

Searched Ebsco-Host's Environment Index for "Renewable Energy"

• See 9.21.07 email with links to citations/articles
• Looks like good article, but can't find this journal, electronic or otherwise: MARKET DIFFUSION OF NEW RENEWABLE ENERGY IN EUROPE: EXPLAINING FRONT-RUNNER AND LAGGARD POSITIONS. By: Eikeland, Per Ove; Sæverud, Ingvild Andreassen. Energy & Environment, Jan2007, Vol. 18 Issue 1, p13-36, 24p, 5 charts; (AN 24322741)
• Get from Science Library TJ809 .S66 Per - Much Ado about Germany? By: Morris, Craig. Solar Today, Jan/Feb2007, Vol. 21 Issue 1, p32-35, 4p, 3 graphs; (AN 23693636)
• ILL book: Renewable Energy Policy. By: Swezey, Blair G

ANN'S STUFF
Notes on Readings - Werboff Summer 2007

• Sweden's energy usage and plans for reducing oil consumption
• Canadian goals and policies for renewable fuels, home efficiency, public transport, green cars
• German goals/projections for total energy use and renewable use
• Overview of wind turbine use and projections in Europe, economic benefits of wind

EU Documents

• Renewable energy roadmap: Legally binding 20% by 2020. How to mainstream; policies needed.
• Renewable energy roadmap C/B analysis and feasibility study - 20% renewable energy by 2020 (would be 12.5% with BAU). Costs: expensive, but less so if oil and carbon tax prices rise. Determine that shares above 20% lead to costs higher than benefits

Renewable Energy Folder

• IEA (2007) paper on Renewables and energy security: should use this framing in addition to env benefits. Need policies to support use, and R&D
• **Meyer (2003) paper - Comparison of RE-promoting legislation in EU: FITs, tenders (requests for bids), certificates trading. Table of who is using what.
• **Palz (2006) 3-pager for WCRE website. Good narrative on how exports and market shares in some countries have grown or shrunk. List of possible policies. Who is producing what (PV, wind, solar heat). Technological outlook: theoretical efficiency for silicon cells lies at 26%; most efficient now are 20%. More important is 50% decrease in production costs. First wind turbines in Denmark were 20KW; avg in Germany today is 1.7MW.

Solar

• Survey showing support for solar, wind, nuclear among European countries
• **IEA - PV Power Systems (PVPS) report 2006. Info on technology and countries using PV. 4 pages per country; no aggregating tables.
• ** IEA - Trends in PV applications b/w 1992-2004 - selected OECD countries. Comparative tables for use trends, policies, prices
• European PV Industry Association (EPIA) 2006 Annual Report. Institutional information - not as useful.
• PV Policy Group - European Best Practice Report (2006). Assessment and comparison of 12 national PV policy frameworks. Conclusion: investors need secure conditions; administrative hassles should be minimized.

Wind

• **Table of MW of wind power installed in Europe by end of 2006 and in 2006
• FT (2007) article on Spain as wind energy leader

Energy Policies of IEA Countries, 2005 Review (500+ pages)

• Quite comprehensive overview of energy policy, good practices, market trends, energy market reform.
• Sections on climate change policies, energy efficiency, renewable energy.
• Country reports for Australia, Czech, Lux, Nor, Spain, Turkey, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Switz
• Appendices with energy policies of IEA countries, gov't energy R&D budgets
• 2006 edition came out in Dec 2006; 96 euros

Employment Effects

• **Employment effects of sustainable development policies (Singapore and Australia university professors 2005).

Country Studies

• Canada. Two Ontario gov't releases on $650 mil fund for creating jobs in green cars, clean fuels, clean technologies. Federal gov't docs on biofuels plan, tax credit for transit passes, home and business energy efficiency grants.
• Denmark. Tax on 4WD vehicles. 2-pager on renewable energy in Germany and Denmark (PhD student in Australia). Energy policy in Denmark,1990-2001 (source? parts cut off, sloppily written). Samsoe: renewable energy island & sustainable energy vision for Denmark - pp. 24-27 of an unidentified publication. Webpage info on Samso (wind-works.org 2006).
• Germany. Bioenergy (Federal Ministry for Env, Nature Cons, Nuclear Safety 2004). 2-page review of RE in 2006 from website (German Renewable Energy Federation 2007). German renewable energy law (Denmark's Folkecenter for Renewable Energy 2000). Energy market trend predictions to 2030 (German Ministry of Econ and Labor 2005 - have two different-looking copies of this). Shaping Europe's Economic Future (Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology 2007) - Plan for German presidency of EU - pp9-10 on secure, environmentally friendly energy supply for Europe.
• Ireland. Delivering a Sustainable Energy Future for Ireland (Dept of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources 2007) - 5 strategic goals; comprehensive energy policy, some stuff on RE.
• Sweden. Sustainable transport system for 2050 (Energy Policy 2006). Gov't climate policy (Swed ministry of env 2007). PRogram to reduce energy consumption in steel industry (Swedish energy agency2006). Use of bioethanol (New Zealand newspaper article 2007). 5 graphs from IEA on trends in energy sources to 2004 (IEA 2006). Summary of a report on Sweden's preparedness for peak oil (Royal Swedish Academy of Ag and Forestry 2006). Sweden IEA 2004 Energy Policy review - 140 pages; nice narrative summary of Swedish energy policy. Making Sweden and Oil-free society (Commission on Oil Independence 2006). Critical editorial on why the commission fails to deliver oil independence (from Post Carbon blogs 2006)
• USA. IEA chapter on US energy policy and use - not sure what report or edition this is from