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Empowering or repressive: navigating the complexities of renewable portfolio standards in the US

Kulkarni, Siddhant
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Colorado School of Mines. Payne Institute for Public Policy
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Littlefield, Anna
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2023-11-13
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https://hdl.handle.net/11124/178533
 https://doi.org/10.25676/11124/178533
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Payne Institute Student Researcher Siddhant Kulkarni and Program Manager Anna Littlefield write about how Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS) represent a strategic push by governments to usher in an era of clean, renewable energy. While RPS are not the only policy-mechanisms that incentivize renewable energy, they have been in place for decades across the world. Data from the International Renewable Energy Association (IRENA) shows that worldwide installed renewable energy capacity has almost doubled in the last decade, thanks in part to the RPS policies implemented. In the US these regulations are particular to individual states and aim to combat increasing greenhouse gas emissions and by extension, climate change.
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