Renewable Portfolio Standards in the States: Balancing Goals and Implementation Strategies

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State Clean Energy Practices: Renewable Portfolio Standards

“…This paper provides a summary of the policy objectives that commonly drive the establishment of an RPS, the key issues that states have encountered in implementing an RPS, and the strategies that some of the leading states have followed to address implementation challenges. The factors that help an RPS function best generally have been explored in other analyses (for example, Cory and Swezey 2007;Wiser and Barbose 2008). This study complements others by comparing empirical outcomes (i.e., which RPS programs appear to correlate with the greatest renewable capacity growth), and identifying the policies that appear to have the greatest impact on results.…”

State Clean Energy Policies Analysis (SCEPA) Project: An Analysis of Renewable Energy Feed-in Tariffs in the United States (Revised)

“…In order to limit cost increases, a number of RPS policies in the United States have included overall cost caps, including New Mexico and Colorado (Cory and Swezey 2007). FIT policies can be designed to include similar cost caps, limiting the overall rate impact of RE development.…”

Economic Dispatch and Interruptible Load Management with Renewable Energy using Particle Swarm Optimization

“…In order to meet the Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) increased production of energy from renewable sources, particularly integrating wind into bulk power system [1]. The difficulties in integrating the wind energy into bulk power system poses challenges to power system operators & planners arise from its limited predictability and high inter-temporal variation [2].…”