This report offers best practices for overcoming several of the more common barriers to renewables deployment. Though they are not all-inclusive, the case studies illustrate situations that are prevalent around the world. Through their analysis, the authors offer keys to deployment.
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Source: International Energy Agency-Renewable Energy Technology Deployment
Date: July 2013
This website includes information about key features of a renewable portfolio standard (RPS) program. The fact sheet provides elements of a successful RPS, the benefits of implementing a RPS, and an overview of the current RPS programs in the United States.
Source: United States Environmental Protection Agency
Internationally, policymakers and grid operators have unique local priorities that drive the deployment of smart grids. Understanding how these priorities shape the real-world impact of smart grids is of key importance to all stakeholders.
Source: Clean Energy Solutions Center
Date: November 2011
How do you build a smart grid that is reliable, safe, more sustainable and unlocks markets for economic growth and innovation? In this webinar-based training, learn how policymakers around the world are approaching this challenge.
Source: Clean Energy Solutions Center, International Smart Grid Action Network
Date: November 2012
This article in the ICER Chronicle evaluates the incentives for investments in low-loss equipment in differing regulatory settings and outlines pathways to assure the proper embedding of these incentives.
Source: International Confederation of Energy Regulators
Date: March 2014
This article in the ICER Chronicle addresses the regulatory work of the Office of Gas and Electricity Markets in the United Kingdom (Ofgem), and it describes how Ofgem developed a Strategic and Sustainability Assessment to provide a systematic and transparent framework in which to evalu
Source: International Confederation of Energy Regulators
Date: December 2013
Designed for use as a desk-top reference, the Transportation Energy Data Book provides statistics and information characterizing transportation activity and energy use. The book presents relevant statistical data in the form of tables and graphs.
Source: United States Oak Ridge National Laboratory
This video introduces results-based regulation, a new approach to upgrading the electrical grid in which regulators, utilities and policymakers implement a value-of-service model rather than a cost-of-service one.
Source: GE Digital Energy
Date: October 2013
This website is a compendium of Canadian non-urban energy access resources and websites since 1998. The website lists several resources for rural communities that cover more than just energy related technologies or topics.
Source: Rural Living Canada
This recorded webinar disseminates the findings of IEA’s new publication “Technology Roadmap: Energy Storage,” which examines the role of energy storage technologies within future energy systems.
Source: International Energy Agency (IEA), Clean Energy Solutions Center
Date: March 2014