The problem with the “portfolio approach” in American energy policy

Sovacool, Benjamin K.

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“…When different intermittent energy sources are combined with each other or over large geographical regions, they are much less intermittent than at one location [13,17]. Nevertheless a quantitative characterization of different sources is a difficult task, the design of an optimal "energy portfolio" is far from being solved [17,18].…”

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Contrasting Electricity Demand with Wind Power Supply: Case Study in Hungary

Kiss

Varga²,

Jánosi

2009

Energies

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Abstract:We compare the demand of a large electricity consumer with supply given by wind farms installed at two distant geographic locations. Obviously such situation is rather unrealistic, however our main goal is a quantitative characterization of the intermittency of wind electricity. The consumption pattern consists of marked daily and weekly cycles interrupted by periods of holidays. In contrast, wind electricity production has neither short-time nor seasonal periodicities. We show that wind power integration over a restricted area cannot provide a stable baseload supply, independently of the excess capacity. Further essential result is that the statistics are almost identical for a weekly periodic pattern of consumption and a constant load of the same average value. The length of both adequate supply and shortfall intervals exhibits a scale-free (power-law) frequency distribution, possible consequences are shortly discussed.

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Contrasting Electricity Demand with Wind Power Supply: Case Study in Hungary

Kiss

Varga²,

Jánosi

2009

Energies

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“…These taxonomies provided analysts a framework for describing and assessing the ways in which governments connect policy goals and means in their effort to improve outcomes which over time have fostered the emergence of a 'tools approach' to understanding problems (Hood, 2007). Recent research has focused not only on choice of individual tools but also how they are assembled together as 'policy mixes' or 'portfolios' to maximise complementarities amongst and between tools (Borras and Edquist, 2013; Flanagan, Uyarra, & Laranja, 2011;Howlett & Del Rio, 2015;Mohnen and Roller, 2005;Schaffrin, Sewerin, & Seubert, 2014;Sovacool, 2008); issues relating to policy coordination (Jordan & Lenschow, 2010;Peters, 2015Peters, , 2018; policy coherence and consistency of these mixes (Howlett & Rayner, 2007;Kivimaa and Virkamaki, 2014;Rogge & Reichardt, 2016); how they are sequenced and layered (Howlett, 2019); the 'intensity', and explicitness with which they affect change (Thomann, 2018;Howlett, 2018) and criteria to evaluate them (Howlett, Capano, & Ramesh, 2018;Capano & Woo, 2018;Mukherjee & Howlett, 2018;del Rio, 2018;Bali, Capano and Ramesh, Forthcoming). These studies go beyond describing broad institutional choices used to organise a sector or policy styles and implementation preferences of governments (Bemelmans-Videc, 1998;Hood, 1983;Linder & Peters, 1989;Salamon, 2002;Trebilcock et al, 1982).…”

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Assessing health reform: studying tool appropriateness & critical capacities

Bali

Ramesh

2019

Policy and Society

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The past two decades have witnessed unprecedented policy effort to improve access to medical services and strengthen financial protection from catastrophic healthcare expenditure. Despite billions of dollars in health spending, manyespecially across the developing worldcontinue to remain vulnerable to financial impoverishment. What accounts for this poor performance? To respond to this question, we turn to the design literature in public policy, which emphasises the role of policy tools or combination of tools in addressing a social problem. In this paper, we focus on two interrelated aspects of the design orientation to explain outcomes: a) the appropriateness of the policy tool and b) the capacity of government agencies. We apply a framework, which integrates vital questions on both these aspects along three common dimensions (analytical, operational and political) to assess healthcare reforms in India and Thailand. The case studies illustrate the importance of both these aspects of the design orientation in explaining outcomes, and show how they are commonly overlooked in the health and social policy literatures, and in reforms underway.

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“…Encouraging demand-side management and energy efficiency can reduce peak congestion on electric power grids but would directly cut into the profitability of building natural gas peaking plants (Sovacool 2008). Energy taxes can promote efficiency and minimize waste, but also disfavor energy producers, especially Western and Gulf producers of oil and gas and global suppliers of coal (Kalicki and Goldwyn 2005).…”

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Cobenefits and Trade-Offs of Green and Clean Energy: Evidence from the Academic Literature and Asian Case Studies

Sovacool¹

2016

SSRN Journal

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The problem with the “portfolio approach” in American energy policy

Abstract: Energy policy, Renewable energy, Energy efficiency, Nuclear power, Clean coal, Fossil fuels,

Cited by 19 publications

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Contrasting Electricity Demand with Wind Power Supply: Case Study in Hungary

Contrasting Electricity Demand with Wind Power Supply: Case Study in Hungary

Assessing health reform: studying tool appropriateness & critical capacities

Cobenefits and Trade-Offs of Green and Clean Energy: Evidence from the Academic Literature and Asian Case Studies

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