Download or read book Funding the Development of Renewable Energy Technologies written by Great Britain. Parliament House of Commons. Committee of Public Accounts and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Funding the development of renewable energy technologies written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2010-11-30 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developing renewable energy technologies is vitally important if the UK is to help tackle climate change and maintain secure national energy supplies. But the Department of Energy and Climate Change (the Department) is going to miss its target to supply 10% of electricity from renewable sources by the end of 2010. The Department is responsible for ensuring a series of targets are met over the next 40 years but direct government funding for developing renewable energy technologies is delivered through a complex web of organisations that the Department does not control. In consequence the Department does not have a clear understanding of how much has been spent or what has been achieved. Between 2000 and 2009, the Department and its predecessors failed to use nearly half of the resources available to it to encourage innovation in renewable energy. This is a wasted opportunity for providing investment that could have helped increase the supply of renewable energy. The Committee is concerned that the Department committed to a new, extremely ambitious and legally-binding EU target to supply 15% of all the UK's energy from renewable sources by 2020, despite not having a clear plan for how it would achieve this. The Department needs to get the best value and impacts from the Renewables Obligation. Achieving the 2050 target for an 80% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions will need further innovation in renewable energy technologies to increase supplies after 2020 but the Department has not set out any innovation milestones it will need to meet.

Download or read book Government funding for developing renewable energy technologies written by Great Britain: National Audit Office and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2010-06-10 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Government funding for developing renewable energy technologies has delivered technology innovation and increased the supply of renewable energy. Numerous schemes offering direct support for renewable energy technologies have been launched during the last decade by various government departments and delivery bodies. Reflecting their own objectives and remits, each organisation has determined its approach and spending on renewable energy technologies. Co-ordination among delivery bodies has historically been limited and there has been no routine collection of information on the spending and delivery by these schemes and their contribution to meeting the 2020 target for renewable energy and the longer-term statutory commitment to reduce carbon emissions. The overall value for money of spending to date cannot be demonstrated. Government-funded direct support for renewable energy technology was £265 million between 2000 and 2009. This funding is separate from support provided through fiscal and regulatory measures, including the Renewables Obligation, which in 2008-09 provided financial support worth around £1 billion. The available evidence suggests direct support has contributed to an increase in renewable energy generation. Industry has had to seek funding from many short-term schemes to support long-term projects, but there is evidence that funding has successfully supported innovation. Since taking on responsibility for renewable energy policy in October 2008, the Department of Energy and Climate Change has delivered a renewable energy strategy and it is now developing a supporting delivery plan. This provides an opportunity to improve co-ordination, consistency and the value for money achieved from Government funding for developing renewable energy technologies.

Download or read book Renewable Energy R D Funding History written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Order Code RS22858 April 9, 2008 Renewable Energy R&D Funding History: A Comparison with Funding for Nuclear Energy, Fossil Energy, and Energy Efficiency R&D Fred Sissine Specialist in Energy Policy Resources, Science, and Industry Division Summary Energy research and development (R&D) intended to advance technology played an important role in the successful outcome of World War II. [...] The energy crises of the 1970s spurred the government to broaden the focus to include renewable energy and energy efficiency. [...] Over the 30-year period from the Department of Energy's inception at the beginning of fiscal Year (FY) 1978 through FY2007, federal spending for renewable energy R&D amounted to about 16% of the energy R&D total, compared with 15% for energy efficiency, 25% for fossil, and 41% for nuclear. [...] Introduction This report provides a cumulative history of Department of Energy (DOE) funding for renewable energy compared with funding for the other energy technologies - nuclear energy, fossil energy, and energy efficiency. [...] During the post World War II era, the federal government began to apply R&D to the peacetime development of energy sources to support economic growth.

Download or read book Accelerating Clean Energy Technology Research Development and Deployment written by Patrick Avato and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2008-06-10 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate change is one of the key challenges of this century. At the same time, energy use the primary source of climate-altering global greenhouse gas emissions is increasing at unprecedented rates and is vital to the continued economic growth of developing countries. This poses a serious dilemma that can only be reconciled with new and improved clean energy technologies that balance climate change mitigation and increased energy needs in developing countries. Despite a recent increase in investment, public and private research, development, and deployment (RD&D) funding rates are well below historical levels. In addition, significant barriers impede the ability to develop new technologies, such as the uncertain future value of CO2 emissions, intellectual property rights issues, limited incentives to commercialize technologies for developing countries, and challenges with technology transfer. These factors must be overcome to accelerate innovation in the energy sector. To introduce new thinking to address these concerns, this report examines four cases from outside the energy sector where creative approaches to RD&D have successfully overcome similar barriers. The case studies review approaches to innovation by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, Advanced Market Commitments for Vaccines, the Human Genome Project, and the concept of Distributed Innovation. These case studies show how creative efforts can generate valuable public goods via: (i) international partnerships between public and private actors, (ii) information sharing and intellectual property rights, and (iii) novel financing schemes.

Download or read book The National Clean Energy Fund of India written by Rita Pandey and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Clean Energy Fund (NCEF), announced in the Government of India’s Budget 2010-11, is seen as a major step in India's quest for energy security and reducing the carbon intensity of energy. Funding research and innovative projects in clean energy technologies, and harnessing renewable energy sources to reduce dependence on fossil fuels constitute the objectives of the NCEF. The NCEF’s utilization of funds is considered to be rather low and disbursements poorly aligned with the fund’s stated objectives, thus posing a potential risk of diluting the focus of NCEF with adverse implications for the much-needed research and innovation in the clean energy sector in India. The book provides a detailed framework for promoting effective utilization and administration of NCEF. To this effect, it identifies the most promising avenues for utilization of NCEF resources for catalytic opportunities and deployment of new technologies. It also identifies and prioritizes the specific energy sub-sectors towards which the NCEF resources are directed. It also makes suggestions for designing a smart monitoring and evaluation framework for the NCEF. This work provides significant information for the government so that appropriate mid-course corrections may be made in a timely manner. This will also be useful in honing the strategic thinking on a suitable energy-technology policy and an assessment of technology needs and other barriers to the clean energy sector in India.

Download or read book Renewable Energy Finance written by Charles W. Donovan and published by Wspc (Europe. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will give readers a unique insiders' perspective on how renewable energy deals actually get done. Renewable Energy Finance (Second Edition) describes in rich detail current best practices and evolving trends in clean energy investing. With contributions by some of the world's leading experts in energy finance, the book documents how investors are spending over $300 billion each year on financing renewable energy and positioning themselves in a growing global investment market. This second edition documents, with practical examples, the ways in which investors have funded over $2.6 trillion in solar, wind, and other renewable energy projects over the past decade. The book will be a go-to reference manual for understanding the factors that shape risk and return in renewable energy, the world's fastest growing industrial sector. Renewable Energy Finance (Second Edition) is suitable for executives new to the field, as well as advanced business students. This new edition will fill an important vacuum in the published book market. Despite exploding interest in renewable energy investing amongst corporate managers, government policymakers, and advanced business students, there is no text in the market that provides an insider's perspective on how large-scale renewable energy projects are funded. Over the last 10 years, many books about renewable energy have been written from an engineering perspective, focusing on technical aspects of clean energy technologies. Books written from a finance & economics perspective have dealt with renewable energy as a sub-set of the energy market or infrastructure financing more generally. Titles in the mass market have focused almost exclusively on investing in shares of renewable energy companies, not renewable energy power projects. Renewable Energy Finance (Second Edition) bridges these gaps by serving an audience of industry professionals and finance scholars with insights and analysis from leading investors putting their firms' money to work in utility-scale renewable energy projects. Essays collected in the book describe project financing vehicles for a range of renewable energy technologies including solar photovoltaic power plants, offshore wind farms, and bio-fuel refineries, as well as financing practices in a diverse set of countries.

Download or read book Public Finance Mechanisms to Catalyze Sustainable Energy Sector Growth written by and published by UNEP/Earthprint. This book was released on 2005 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Technology Transfer for Renewable Energy written by Gill Wilkins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book highlights the role that renewable energy can play in achieving sustainable development. It focuses on rural areas of developing countries, looking in particular at stand-alone solar home systems and grid-connected biomass cogeneration plant. It provides a summary of the main barriers to the successful transfer of renewable energy technology, illustrated by case studies drawn from Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, the South Pacific, Kenya and India. Options for overcoming the barriers and the role of key players are presented. The book also outlines the potential role of the Clean Development Mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol in facilitating renewable energy technology transfer in the context of climate change.The book will appeal to academics, consultants, technology manufacturers, international funding bodies, multilateral and bilateral aid agencies, policy-makers and planners in developing countries.

Download or read book Deploying Renewables written by International Energy Agency and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accompanying CD-ROM includes PDF file: Country profiles facts and figures.

Download or read book Renewable Energy Technologies research Directions Investment Opportunities and Challenges to Commercial Application in the United States and the Developing World written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Energy and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Report of the Committee on the Development and Utilization of New and Renewable Sources of Energy written by United Nations. Committee on the Development and Utilization of New and Renewable Sources of Energy and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Public Investments in Energy Technology written by Michael P. Gallaher and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Escalating energy demand may be the most important issue facing the United States and the world today. There is little disagreement that research and development (R&D) is needed to develop new energy technologies for the future; however, there is less agreement over the specific research agenda to be pursued and how that agenda is funded. This book addresses the social importance of new energy technologies, illustrates policy-relevant applications of evaluation techniques and proposes new perspectives for a US energy investment strategy. Through detailed examples related to solar, geothermal, and vehicle technologies, the authors outline the need for robust evaluation methods to document social returns to taxpayers' R&D investments. They argue that such evaluations are necessary for the public sector to make rational decisions about the allocation of its scares resources. The evaluation methods considered involve developing alternative technology and market pathways from which the benefits of government research can be measured. Researchers and graduate students, policy makers involved in energy technology, and energy R&D program managers will all find much of value in this important and timely book.

Download or read book Renewable Energy Sources for the World s Poor written by John Ashworth and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Impact of Renewable Energy on Corporate Finance and Economics written by Ahmadi, Ali and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2024-05-28 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world faces escalating challenges in sustainable development, corporate social responsibility, and green finance, compounded by the complexities of accounting and modern economics. These challenges demand urgent solutions that recognize their gravity and offer tangible, actionable strategies. Traditional approaches need to be revised in the face of these multifaceted issues, requiring a fresh perspective and innovative solutions to navigate the complexities of today's global economies. Impact of Renewable Energy on Corporate Finance and Economics provides a comprehensive and timely solution to these pressing challenges. Through a meticulous examination of real-world case studies and proven strategies, this book offers a roadmap for stakeholders to address these issues effectively. It explores sustainable finance mechanisms, collaborative stakeholder efforts, and visionary project objectives that have successfully overcome these obstacles. By delving into topics such as the renewable revolution, sustainable infrastructure transformations, and climate finance, the book equips readers with the knowledge and tools to confidently navigate the sustainable development landscape.

Download or read book Funding Department of Energy Research and Development in a Constrained Budget Environment written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Energy and Environment and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Renewable Energy Technologies written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Energy and Power and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: