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Nicaragua: Supporting Renewable Energy Deployment through Tax Incentives and a Broader Policy Framework
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United States: Texas: Competitive Renewable Energy Zones and Transmission Expansion to Support Scaled-up Wind Investment
Barrier
Biomass Power
Corporate Investors
Developed
Economy
Finance
Fossil Fuel Subsidies
Geothermal Power
Hydropower
Incentive/Instrument
Investor
Jurisdiction
Lack of Existing Market
National
Renewable Energy
Tradable Certificates
Utilities
Tradable Renewable Energy Certificates
Renewable energy certificates (RECs) represent the environmental attributes associated with one megawatt-hour of electricity production and can traded, bought and sold separately from commodity electricity
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Thailand: Setting Ambitious Renewable Energy and Wind Targets
Energy Access
Renewable Energy
Breaking Down Silos: What does linking renewable energy, energy access and energy efficiency really look like?
A webinar on breaking down silos and what linking renewable energy, energy access and energy efficiency really looks like, including a discussion of the progress made to date.
8 June 2017
Finance
Incentive/Instrument
Tenders and Reverse Auctions
Auctioning Renewable Energy Projects: Lessons Learned from Auction Design for Renewable Electricity (Leonardo ENERGY)
An examination of crucial design features and important lessons learned from various jurisdictions around the world, with highlights of potential combinations of auctions with other support mechanisms.
7 October 2015
Renewable Energy
Building an Innovation and Entrepreneurship Driven Economy: How Policies Can Foster Risk Capital Investment in Renewable Energy
Exploration of how countries can use policies to build clean energy economies by stimulating venture capital investments in new renewable energy companies
4 May 2011
Renewable Energy
Designing Successful Renewable Energy Targets in Africa: Key Principles and Insights
A discussion of what policymakers and regulators across Africa can do to design more effective targets as they seek to scale up the share of renewable energy in the mix and attract private investment.
12 April 2016
Energy Efficiency
Community Renewable Energy: Citizen Involvement in the Energy Transition
An overview of REN21’s newly released Renewables 2016 Global Status Report and a look at the role of renewables in communities.
16 June 2016
Grid Integration
Renewable Energy
Enabling Technologies: Key role in increasing renewable energy uptake?
A presentation of REN21’s recently released Renewable 2017 Global Status Report and a discussion of current developments in various energy technologies, infrastructure, markets and institutional frameworks that can advance and facilitate expanded deployment of renewable energy.
15 June 2017
Renewable Energy
Education and Skills Needs in the Renewable Energy Sector
Discussion of the critical shortage of skilled personnel needed to develop, design, finance, build, operate and maintain renewable energy projects
2 April 2014 to 30 April 2014
Renewable Energy
From a Renewable Electricity Transformation to a Renewable Energy System Transformation: Renewables in Heating, Cooling, and Transport
A dive into the status of renewables in the heating, cooling and transport sectors and what is needed to speed the uptake of renewables to meet climate objectives and the Sustainable Development Goals.
21 June 2018
Finance
Incentive/Instrument
Loan Guarantees
Finance Mechanisms for Lowering the Cost of Renewable Energy in Rapidly Developing Countries (Climate Policy Initiative)
A look at two potential policy solutions to the particular challenges of renewable energy financing in emerging economies.
29 April 2014
Grid Integration
Greening the Grid: Implementing Renewable Energy Zones for Integrated Transmission and Generation Planning
Training on the renewable energy zone (REZ) approach, which provides a policy framework for planning new transmission to encourage utility-scale renewable energy development in areas that have the highest likelihood of being cost-effective.
1 December 2015
Renewable Energy
Global Renewable Energy Status and Medium-term Outlook Until 2018
Presentation and discussion of the key findings of REN21’s Renewables 2013 Global Status Report and IEA’s Medium-Term Renewable Energy Market Report 2013
6 November 2013
Grid Integration
Integrating Variable Renewable Energy into the Grid: Key Issues and Emerging Solutions
A review of the challenges of integrating significant quantities of variable renewable energy to the grid and the emerging solutions that policymakers, regulators and grid operators have taken to integrate wind and solar and meet renewable energy targets.
29 July 2015
Renewable Energy
Policy Derisking for Renewable Energy
Sharing of experiences and lessons learned in deploying policy-derisking instruments to promote renewable energy investment
12 June 2013
Finance
Power Purchase Agreements for Grid-Aware Renewable Energy Procurement
A webinar will a focus on power purchase agreement (PPA) provisions that can enable wind and solar technologies to enhance grid stability and contribute to power system flexibility.
9 May 2017