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Utilities can support renewable energy investments by building renewable energy projects, procuring renewable energy from independent power producers, providing renewable energy through green tariffs, offering net metering or net billing programs and enabling community solar projects. Utilities can support energy efficiency investments through rebates, demand response and other programs. The types of investments made and programs offered may vary depending on whether the utility is operating in a regulated or liberalized market.

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30 Years of Policies for Wind Energy Lessons from 12 Wind Energy Markets

This report aims to provide an insight into the strengths of diverse policy design decisions across important existing markets. It…

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International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)

Date:

1 December 2012

Policy Data

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A Generalized Approach to Assessing the Rate Impacts of Net Energy Metering

This report assesses the impact of net metering on billing rates in order to determine whether they are responsible for…

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Solar America Board for Codes and Standards

Date:

1 January 2012

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Bottom Line on Emerging Solar Metering Policies

Virtual Net Metering (VNM) allows multiple customers, with their own discrete meters, to share the net metered credits from a…

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World Resources Institute

Date:

1 January 2011

Policy Data

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Catalyzing Climate Finance: A Guidebook on Policy and Financing Options to Support Green, Low-Emission, and Climate-Resilient Development

This guidebook argues that a failure to provide fair access to climate finance to all developing countries would have severe…

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United Nations

Date:

1 May 2011

Policy Data

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Clean Energy Ministerial 6 (CEM6): Finance for Energy Access

The public-private roundtable summarized on this web page describes how over one billion people globally lack access to electricity, and…

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Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM)

Date:

27 May 2015

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Customer Incentives for Energy Efficiency Through Program Offerings

This brief summarizes the approaches used by energy efficiency program administrators when assessing incentives to be used in energy efficiency…

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United States Environmental Protection Agency

ICF International

Date:

1 February 2010

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Demand Response: Managing Electric Power Peak Load Shortages with Market Mechanisms

This paper focuses on demand response programs as a tool for managing peak load shortages. It emphasizes opportunities within China.…

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Regulatory Assistance Project

Date:

1 March 2015

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Distributed Solar Incentive Programs: Recent Experience and Best Practices for Design and Implementation

This report examines best practices for designing and implementing solar incentive programs by reviewing these programs from entities across the…

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National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Date:

1 December 2012

Deployment Data

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Empowering Rural India: Expanding Electricity Access By Mobilizing Local Resources

This report demonstrates how the decentralization of power generation to the local level and the use of renewable energy sources…

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The World Bank

Date:

1 February 2011

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Engendering Utilities: Improving Gender Diversity in Power Sector Utilities

The research summarized in this report is expected to help development professionals better understand how electricity utilities can increase the…

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USAID

Date:

1 January 2016

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Evaluating Clean Energy Public Finance Mechanisms

This report showcases a methodology to evaluate the performance of different public finance mechanisms and their suitability for replication in…

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United Nations

SEF Alliance

Date:

1 November 2011

Policy Data

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Tools and Websites

Falling Short: An Evaluation of the Indian Renewable Certificate Market

Driven by the need to meet mandates under the 2008 Renewable Purchase Obligation, India launched a Renewable Energy Certificate market.…

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Climate Policy Initiative

Indian School of Business

Date:

1 December 2012

Policy Data

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Feed-in Tariffs as a Policy Instrument for Promoting Renewable Energies and Green Economies in Developing Countries

Policymakers can use this report, which focuses on developing countries to determine how to implement a feed-in tariff (FIT). As…

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United Nations Environment Programme

Date:

1 September 2012

Policy Data

Training Materials

Geothermal FIT Design: International Experience and U.S. Considerations

This webinar discusses the research, analysis, and results of the report Geothermal FiT Design: International Experience and U.S. Considerations. A…

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National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Date:

9 October 2013

Policy Data

Publication

Tools and Websites

Impact of Large Scale Energy Efficiency Programs On Consumer Tariffs and Utility Finances in India

The objective of this paper is to analyze the effect on utility finances and consumer tariffs of implementing utility-funded cost-effective…

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United States Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Date:

1 January 2011

Deployment Data

Policy Data

Publication

Joint Public-Private Approaches for Energy Efficiency Finance: Policies to Scale-up Private Sector Investment

This report investigates the use of public-private partnerships to encourage private investment in energy efficiency projects. The report describes in…

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International Energy Agency (IEA)

Date:

1 December 2011

Publication

Leveraging State Clean Energy Funds for Economic Development

This report analyzes the impact of state-level clean energy funds (CEFs) in the United States and their ability to affect…

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Brookings Institution

Date:

1 January 2012

Policy Data

Publication

Policies to Support Wind Power Deployment: Key Considerations and Good Practices

Drawing from international experience and lessons, this paper focuses on wind-specific good practices for renewable electricity standards, feed-in tariffs, interconnection…

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National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

Date:

1 May 2015