Electricity generation from renewables in the United States: Resource potential, current usage, technical status, challenges, strategies, policies, and future directions

Osmani, Atif; Zhang, Jun; Gonela, Vinay; Awudu, Iddrisu

doi:10.1016/j.rser.2013.03.011

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“…This finding lends support to our hypothesis that where several such operators exist within a canton, the likelihood of at least one of them offering good feed-in conditions for planned projects or even initiating local projects increases. This result fits in well with a more general discussion about the challenge of feeding decentrally produced renewable-source electricity into the grid (e.g., Battaglini et al 2009;Hammons 2008;Osmani et al 2013). Our study indicates that grid integration not only concerns the system level, but may also influence actors' decisions and behavior with regards to electricity production at the project level.…”

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confidence: 89%

The Politics of Renewable Energy Production in a Federal Context: The Deployment of Small Hydropower in the Swiss Cantons

Stadelmann‐Steffen

Rieder

Strotz

2019

The Journal of Environment & Development

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This article explores the factors that hinder and promote the deployment of renewable energy generating infrastructure in/across the Swiss cantons (i.e. the country's federal units). Using the example of small-scale hydropower, we shed light on how political regulations at the cantonal level interact with national policies and the local political process to affect the deployment of renewable energy production. The analysis demonstrates that political regulations can both foster and hinder the deployment of renewable energy production. While the national feed-in tariff scheme is revealed to be a beneficial framework condition, cantonal regulations hamper, rather than facilitate, the deployment of small-scale hydropower. Moreover, inclusive local processes and the existence of local entrepreneurs seem to act as a trigger for the local acceptance of renewable energy generation infrastructure. More generally, we conclude that, quite independently of whether state structures are decentralized or centralized, subnational and local leeway in the definition and organization of projects can help to prevent or deal with local opposition.

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Section: Resultssupporting

confidence: 89%

The Politics of Renewable Energy Production in a Federal Context: The Deployment of Small Hydropower in the Swiss Cantons

Stadelmann‐Steffen

Rieder

Strotz

2019

The Journal of Environment & Development

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“…Returns on investment, subsidies on conventional energy sources, and the failure to internalize environmental externalities are common barriers to diffusion (Osmani et al, 2013;Sovacool, 2009;van Alphen et al, 2008). Effective energy support policies are necessary to catalyze the diffusion process until RETs can compete with conventional sources (Keyuraphan et al, 2012).…”

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Renewable energy technology diffusion: an analysis of photovoltaic-system support schemes in Medellín, Colombia

Radomes

Arango

2015

Journal of Cleaner Production

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“…Although this article can only include publications until late July 2013, this year has already seen nine further publications in the field of up to 100% renewable energy supply (Refs and ). Among these, we find three detailed studies on states of regions of the United States (Refs ) and three studies on Australia (Refs ), whereas the remaining two deal with Greece (Ref ) and the UK (Ref ). None of these studies raise serious doubts about the possible transition toward a largely renewables‐based future energy supply.…”

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Trends toward 100% renewable electricity supply in Germany and Europe: a paradigm shift in energy policies

Hohmeyer

Bohm

2014

WIREs Energy & Environment

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In industrialized countries such as Germany, electricity production contributes 30-40% of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of the country. Confronted with GHG emission reductions targets of 80-95% by 2050 and with some GHG emitting sectors confronted with great difficulties to reach such targets, such as agriculture, the power sector will need to reduce its GHG emissions virtually to zero. As nuclear energy involves very substantial accident risks and the unsolved problem of safe long-term deposit of nuclear waste and as carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) has rather limited safe storage potentials at least in Europe, the question arises, whether it will be possible to supply 100% of all necessary electricity from renewable energy sources? We show that a fast expanding volume of analyses underlines the feasibility and reliability of 100% renewable electricity supply systems. This fast mounting evidence appears to mark the beginning of a paradigm shift in energy politics, as highly regarded national and international advisory bodies such as the IPCC or the German Council of Environmental Advisors start to adopt this perspective. The example of the highly publicized study of the German Council of Environmental Advisors shows how a 100% renewable electricity system for Germany, Europe, and North Africa could look in 2050 and how the transition toward such a system could be achieved. This study, conducted with major input from the authors, is used to show the major aspects of a 100% renewable electricity supply system, such as the security of supply in every hour of the year, the compensation of intermittent sources such as wind and solar PV energy by other renewables and expanded storage, and the necessary extension of national and international grid infrastructures.

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Electricity generation from renewables in the United States: Resource potential, current usage, technical status, challenges, strategies, policies, and future directions

Cited by 52 publications

References 99 publications

The Politics of Renewable Energy Production in a Federal Context: The Deployment of Small Hydropower in the Swiss Cantons

The Politics of Renewable Energy Production in a Federal Context: The Deployment of Small Hydropower in the Swiss Cantons

Renewable energy technology diffusion: an analysis of photovoltaic-system support schemes in Medellín, Colombia

Trends toward 100% renewable electricity supply in Germany and Europe: a paradigm shift in energy policies

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