1 October 2007

Today:

• Took notes on RE policies in EU from Energy Policy 32 (2006) 5-pager and the UK chapter in Mallon's RE policy book
• Read the Meyer (2003) paper comparing government incentives/support for renewable energy. Author definitely favors feed-in mechanisms to quota/trade systems, for price security.
• Meyer's paper spurred some questions on current state of Danish wind industry especially. Seems that after shift to more conservative gov't in 2001, subsidies for wind were reduced, and domestic installation of wind has fallen off in past few years.
  
• Spent latter part of day trying to figure out exactly what happened in Denmark, without much success. Looked at Danish newspapers that publish in English (Borsen and Copenhagen Times), GWEC website, Google news search. Not much analysis. Also didn't find anything with Google Scholar.
  

Next up:

• Find numbers for capacity added in Denmark for last 10 years or so. Also, look at IEA for policies. Need to find more up-to-date information.
• Begin outline of what I could put into a report at this point. Would probably focus on success of feed-in tariffs. Need some more recent information on certificate programs. Discuss features of successful and unsuccessful policies.
• Learn more about how big wind manufacturing companies got that way. Where are they located? How did government policies affect their existence/growth?