This policy brief presents three key recommendations for supporting a global energy transition in support of the Paris Climate Agreement and the Agenda for Sustainable Development and building on action taken by the G20 in recent years.
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Source: Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS)
Date: November 2016
This report analyzes the rise and fall of the U.S. model of a growth-focused YieldCo with a view towards creating successor instruments that can overcome its shortcomings to sustainably deliver low-cost capital that can drive large-scale renewable energy deployment in the long term.
Source: Climate Policy Initiative
Date: June 2016
This website provides a platform for sharing data, visualizations and analytical tools that are relevant to the energy sector.
Source: World Bank Group
Power systems are designed and operated to efficiently manage variability and uncertainty in electricity demand and resource availability. Variable renewable energy (VRE) increases this inherent variability and uncertainty, and thus increases the need for flexibility.
Source: National Renewable Energy Laboratory
This report provides updates on auctions as a mechanism for price discovery and market development. Chapter 1 gives the highlights of renewable energy auctions held or announced in 2016. Chapter 2 reviews the main trends and analyses the evolution of prices resulting from auctions.
Source: International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)
This brief quantifies air pollution and climate change externalities related to fossil fuels, along with the extent these can be reduced with higher uptake of renewables.
Source: International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)