@article{Fischer:188090,
      recid = {188090},
      author = {Fischer, Carolyn and Preonas, Louis},
      title = {Combining Policies for Renewable Energy: Is the Whole Less  than the Sum of Its Parts?},
      address = {2010},
      number = {1014-2016-81529},
      pages = {41},
      year = {2010},
      abstract = {Since the energy crisis in the 1970s and later the growing  concern for climate change in the
1990s, policymakers at  all levels of government and around the world have been  enthusiastically
supporting a wide range of incentive  mechanisms for electricity from renewable energy sources  (RES-E).
Motivations range from energy security to  environmental preservation to green jobs and innovation,  and
measures comprise an array of subsidies to mandates to  emissions trading. But do these policies work
together or  at cross-purposes? To evaluate RES-E policies, one must  understand how specific policy
mechanisms interact with  each other and under what conditions multiple policy levers  are necessary. In
this article, we review the recent  environmental economics literature on the effectiveness of  RES-E
policies and the interactions between them, with a  focus on the increasing use of tradable quotas for  both
emissions reduction and RES-E expansion.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/188090},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.188090},
}