Powering the green economy

Effective policy is vital for creating greener economies, new jobs and industries, for securing energy supplies and for protecting the climate and environment. As renewable energy is fundamental to achieving all of these objectives, it too needs the best possible policy to drive it. Feed-in tariffs have proven to deliver the fastest, most cost-effective and inclusive deployment, by allowing anyone to sell renewable energy into the grid and get a long term, guaranteed return for it. This book provides a detailed resource on feed-in tariffs and other renewable energy support schemes, examines good and bad design and implementation and discusses the challenges faced by policy and renewable energy in general. It gives an introduction to feed-in tariffs and brings developments in key countries around the world up to date, investigates effective design for developed and emerging economies and looks at technical and political issues.