A Retrospective Analysis of the Benefits and Impacts of U.S. Renewable Portfolio Standards

Technical Report · Mon Jul 31 04:00:00 EDT 2017

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1373276· OSTI ID:1373276

Wiser, Ryan H. ^[1]; Barbose, Galen ^[1]; Heeter, Jenny ^[2]; Mai, Trieu ^[2]; Bird, Lori ^[2]; Bolinger, Mark ^[1]; Carpenter, Alberta ^[2]; Heath, Garvin ^[2]; Keyser, David ^[2]; Macknick, Jordan ^[2]; Mills, Andrew ^[1]; Millstein, Dev ^[1]

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1. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
2. National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)

This report, the second in the series, analyzes historical benefits and impacts of all state RPS policies, in aggregate, employing a consistent and well-vetted set of methods and data sets. The analysis focuses on three specific benefits: greenhouse gas emissions, air pollution, and water use. It also analyzes three other impacts: gross job additions, wholesale electricity market price suppression, and natural gas price suppression. These are an important subset, but by no means a comprehensive set, of all possible effects associated with RPS policies. These benefits and impacts are also subject to many uncertainties, which are described and, to the extent possible, quantified within the report.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• OSTI ID: 1373276
• Report Number(s): LBNL--1003961; ir:1003961
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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