LEADER 05895nam 2200745 450 001 9910460347903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4648-0315-3 035 $a(CKB)3710000000275285 035 $a(EBL)1835386 035 $a(OCoLC)885027154 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001367799 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11861401 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001367799 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11448255 035 $a(PQKB)10390852 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1835386 035 $a(DLC) 2014030412 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1835386 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10961907 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL661024 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000275285 100 $a20140730h20152015 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe design and sustainability of renewable energy incentives $ean economic analysis /$fPeter Meier, Maria Vagliasindi and Mudassar Imran ; with contributions from Anton Eberhard and Tilak Siyambalapitiya 210 1$aWashington, District of Columbia :$cThe World Bank,$d[2015] 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (311 p.) 225 1 $aDirections in development : energy and mining 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-322-29742-8 311 $a1-4648-0314-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $a""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"" 327 $a""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"" 327 $a""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"" 327 $a""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"" 327 $a""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"" 327 $a""Renewable Energy Targets"" 330 $aThe 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. 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