Offers the incoming Biden administration and Congress a strategic framework to triple US annual investment in energy innovation over the next five years
A guide for policy makers in implementing national or sub-national policies to support innovations in renewable energy.
OECD’s 2015 publication, Aligning Policies for a Low Carbon Economy surveys the efficacy of R&D tax credits, innovation investment portfolio theory, and the effects of removing unhelpful subsidies for entrenched technologies.
Argues that market pull can be stimulated by properly structured regulation. It presents a model of the effects of regulation on technological change, provides a brief history of environmental regulation affecting innovation.
Argues that diffusion is the primary limiting factor in the implementation of many important carbon-reducing technologies.
Highlights 15 high potential technology areas and pathways to speed up renewable energy development and deployment.
Provides an assessment of current technologies and policies for accelerating the energy innovation process, paying particular attention to nuclear, carbon capture and storage, and renewable fuel.
Summarizes the main technological innovation priorities required to achieve deep decarbonization. It aims to identify technologies which are crucial to achieving a low-carbon economy in the future but that are not yet at commercial scale.
Argues that LEDs, solar PV, onshore wind and electric vehicles will maintain momentum and are now as much a transformative tech shift as they are a regulatory response to global environmental challenges.
Considers the novel and uncertain hazards of new energy technologies. It presents case studies of three existing energy technologies to obtain insights in anticipating technological change.