subjectPolicy
These graphs show the changes in Power policy in China, the EU, India, and the US
Both state and federal governments created policies to support renewable energy. The two most prominent of these were federal renewable energy tax incentives and state level renewable portfolio standards.
Both state and federal governments created policies to support renewable energy. The two most prominent of these were federal renewable energy tax incentives, and state level renewable portfolio standards. These policies, and several other factors, are associated with significant increases in U.S. renewable energy capacity.
European Union
Renewables targets
The EU set, and narrowly missed, ambitious renewable energy targets for 2010 for the EU15. For 2020, the EU has set an even more ambitious renewable energy target for the expanded EU27 of 20% of total energy consumption, which translates to 34% of electricity generation from renewable sources.
Renewable energy growth was supported by increased loan distributions by the central government, including the Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency (IREDA).
The central government required that each state set renewable purchase obligations that require renewable energy in the mix of electricity generation in each state. The average of these targets reached 5.5% by 2010.
Policy encouraged increased renewable energy deployment through a mix of generation targets.
Total incentives to transmission operators to connectand carry renewable electricity increased more than 25-fold between 2007 and 2010. China maintained reasonably high, but slowly declining, feed-in tariffs for wind and solar (not shown).