05921oam 22007575 450 991080745690332120240405112058.01-4648-0315-310.1596/978-1-4648-0314-7(CKB)3710000000275285(EBL)1835386(OCoLC)885027154(SSID)ssj0001367799(PQKBManifestationID)11861401(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001367799(PQKBWorkID)11448255(PQKB)10390852(MiAaPQ)EBC1835386(DLC) 2014030412(Au-PeEL)EBL1835386(CaPaEBR)ebr10961907(CaONFJC)MIL661024(The World Bank)18240376(US-djbf)18240376(EXLCZ)99371000000027528520140724d2014 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtrdacontentnrdamediancrdacarrierThe design and sustainability of renewable energy incentives an economic analysis /Peter Meier, Maria Vagliasindi and Mudassar Imran ; with contributions from Anton Eberhard and Tilak Siyambalapitiya1st ed.Washington, DC :The World Bank,[2014]1 online resource (pages cm)Directions in developmentDescription based upon print version of record.1-322-29742-8 1-4648-0314-5 Includes bibliographical references.""Front Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Executive Summary""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Chapter 1 Introduction""; ""Background""; ""Key Issues""; ""Objectives""; ""Why Is Renewable Energy Important for Poor Countries?""; ""Taxonomy of Financial Incentive Mechanisms""; ""Economic vs. Financial Incentives""; ""Organization of the Rest of the Report""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Chapter 2 The Economic Rationale for Renewable Energy""; ""Analytical Framework""; ""Local Environmental Damage Costs""; ""Discount Rate""; ""The Social Cost of Carbon""; ""Fossil-Fuel Price Subsidies""""Renewable Energy and Employment""""Specific Questions for the Case Studies""; ""Methodology""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Chapter 3 Case Study: Vietnam""; ""Sector Background""; ""Power Sector Development""; ""Renewable Energy Development""; ""Renewable Energy Resource Endowment: The Supply Curve""; ""Production Costs""; ""The Avoided Social Cost of Thermal Generation""; ""Carbon Accounting and the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)""; ""Renewable Energy Targets""; ""Design of Incentive Schemes""; ""Incremental Costs and Their Recovery""""Impact of Renewable Energy Tariffs on the Consumer""""Decreasing the Consumer Cost with International Assistance""; ""The Cost of Fossil-Fuel Subsidies""; ""Conclusions""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Chapter 4 Case Study: Sri Lanka""; ""Sector Background""; ""Renewable Energy Development""; ""Renewable Energy Resource Endowment and the Renewable Energy Supply Curve""; ""Capital Costs""; ""The Avoided Social Cost of Thermal Generation""; ""Carbon Accounting and CDM""; ""Renewable Energy Targets""; ""Design of Incentive Schemes""; ""Incremental Costs and Their Recovery""""Impact of Renewable Energy Tariffs on the Consumer""""The Cost of Fossil-Fuel Subsidies""; ""Financing New and Renewable Energy""; ""Conclusions""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Chapter 5 Case Study: Indonesia""; ""Sector Background""; ""Renewable Energy Development and the Resource Endowment""; ""Renewable Energy Targets""; ""Production Costs""; ""Geothermal Development Policy Issues""; ""The Renewable Energy Supply Curve""; ""Carbon Accounting and CDM""; ""Design of Incentive Schemes""; ""Detailed Design of the Geothermal Feed-In Tariff""; ""Incremental Costs and Their Recovery""""Potential Impact of Incremental Costs on the Consumer""""Buying Down the Price of Renewable Energy with International Assistance""; ""The Environmental Costs of the Electricity Subsidy""; ""Conclusions""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Chapter 6 Case Study: South Africa""; ""Sector Background""; ""Renewable Energy Development""; ""Renewable Energy Targets""; ""Design of Incentive Schemes""; ""Impact of Renewable Energy Tariffs on the Consumer""; ""Conclusions""; ""Note""; ""Bibliography""; ""Chapter 7 Case Study: Tanzania""; ""Sector Background""; ""Renewable Energy Development""""Renewable Energy Targets""The novelty of this work is the fact that it introduces a rigorous and objective economic perspective of current renewable energy support mechanisms and an empirical analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of these mechanisms, which is much needed in a debate often dominated by widespread misconceptions. The economic rationale for renewable energy is straightforward: the optimum amount of renewable energy for grid-connected generation is given by the intersection of the renewable energy supply curve with the avoided cost of thermal electricity generation. The proposed analytical framework: (iWorld Bank e-Library.Renewable energy sourcesDeveloping countriesCase studiesEnergy policyDeveloping countriesCase studiesSustainable developmentCase studiesRenewable energy sourcesEnergy policySustainable development333.79/4091724Meier Peter1942-739562Vagliasindi MariaImran Mudassar1953-Eberhard AntonSiyambalapitiya TilakDLCDLCBOOK9910807456903321The design and sustainability of renewable energy incentives4026408UNINA