Why Do States Adopt Renewable Portfolio Standards?: An Empirical Investigation

By Thomas P. Lyon, Haitao Yin. 2010

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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Policy Tool Interactions and the Adoption of State Renewable Portfolio Standards (2012, background): “Environmental benefits can be generated by decreasing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and improving air quality, through increasing the percentage of renewables in the electricity portfolio (Lyon & Yin, 2010).”
Public opinion and environmental policy output: a cross-national analysis of energy policies in Europe (2017, background): “…socio-economic factors, e.g. GDP per capita (Apergis and Payne 2010) and economic growth (Sebri and Ben-Salha 2014), special interests (Ince et al 2016, Lyon and Yin 2010) or the diffusion of technologies (Popp et al 2011, Neij 1997) as key determinants of countries’ renewable energy policies.”
Evaluating Policies to Increase Electricity Generation from Renewable Energy (2012, background): “…for subsidizing renewable electricity generation are probably those related to climate change, the first nine U.S. RPS programs were adopted before 1999 along with electric utility restructuring, and their political support had nothing to do with climate change or any other environmental issue…”
US State Policies for Renewable Energy: Context and Effectiveness (2011, background): “While several papers have analyzed the drivers of the adoption of state renewable policies (Lyon and Yin, 2010; Vachon and Menz, 2006), these papers did not relate the factors that explain the adoption of renewable policies to the effectiveness of the policies.”
Combining Policies for Renewable Energy: Is the Whole Less than the Sum of its Parts? (2010, background): “Although some case studies list jobs as a significant factor driving state-level RPS policies (Rabe, 2004), Lyon and Yin (2010) find that states with higher unemployment rates are actually less likely to adopt an RPS, suggesting greater concern for consumer prices in those situations.”
The evaluation of renewable energy policies across EU countries and US states: An econometric approach (2016, background): “For instance, Carley and Miller (2012) discuss the different forms of RPS adopted by state level policymakers and Lyon and Yin (2010) point to the local renewable potential in the framing of policy choices.”
Climate policy innovation in the South – Domestic and international determinants of renewable energy policies in developing and emerging countries (2014, result): “These results are consistent with other recent studies of RE policy diffusion across US states, in which the states’ internal determinants are found to be more important than diffusion variables in explaining policy adoption (Lyon and Yin, 2010; Matisoff and Edwards, forthcoming; Matisoff, 2008).”
Strategic environmental disclosure: Evidence from the DOE's voluntary greenhouse gas registry ☆ (2011, background): “During our sample period, 11 states imposed Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPSs), which require utilities to supply a minimum amount of renewable energy in their generation portfolios [14].”
Kindred spirits or intergovernmental competition? The innovation and diffusion of energy policies in the American states (1990–2008) (2014, background): “for the willingness of each state to use the authority of government to solve perceived policy problems (Lyon and Yin 2010; Matisoff 2008).”
Funding Renewable Energy: An Analysis of Renewable Portfolio Standards (2017, background): “It has consistently been shown that political and economic factors can impact a state’s decision to implement an RPS (Upton and Snyder, 2015; Fowler and Breen, 2013; Chandler, 2009; Ming-Yuan et al., 2007; Lyon and Yin, 2010).”