Feed-in Tariffs and the Economics of Renewable Energy

• Main Author: Yamamoto, Yoshihiro (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Energy policy.; Energy and state.; Natural resources.; Renewable energy resources.; Energy Policy, Economics and Management.; Natural Resource and Energy Economics.; Renewable and Green Energy.

This book offers a theoretical model of feed-in tariffs and provides different investigations into the promotion of renewable energy. The first part of the book proposes a model to investigate feed-in tariffs, that is, how to set a price for the electricity generated from renewable energy sources an...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter1 Introduction
• PART I: Analysis of a Feed-in Tariff System- Chapter2 Feed-in tariffs in comparison with the renewables portfolio standard
• Chapter3 Modeling of feed-in tariffs
• Chapter4 Three types of feed-in tariffs for the residential sector
• Chapter5 Feed-in tariffs combined with capital subsidies
• Chapter6 Simulations of a combination of feed-in tariffs and capital subsidies
• Chapter7 The model with continuous variables
• Part II: Economic and Policy Issues of Renewable Energy- Chapter8 Promoting the development of renewable energy under uncertainty
• Chapter9 Allocation of ancillary service costs to distributed generators
• Chapter10 Opinion leadership in the diffusion of photovoltaic systems
• Chapter11 Public-private partnership in a biomass project
• Chapter12 An organizational form for the development of renewable energy.