#21 Policies to support the deployment of renewable electricity technologies (with Dr. Pablo del Rio)

How can governments support renewable electricity technologies? What's being done, and what does the future look like? And why were these policies needed initially, to give such technologies traction? What's needed, if we are to reach Europe's ambitious goals for transitioning to renewable energy?

Today's guest is Dr. Pablo del Rio. He is the head of the Environmental Economics Group (GEA) at the Institute for Public Goods and Policies at the National Research Council of Spain (CSIC) and has spent more than 20 years looking particularly at the policies for renewable energy.

In this episode we cover the following policy instruments:

Primary instruments

Feed-in-(laws)
Tariffs
Feed-In-Premiums
Auctions
Tradable green certificates

Secondary instruments

Investment subsidies
Soft loans
Fiscal incentives (Tax)

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