Evaluating a Proposed 20% National Renewable Portfolio Standard

Logan, Jeffrey¹  Sullivan, Patrick¹  Short, Walter¹  B 

[1] National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)

关键词: renewable portfolio standard;    RPS;    Regional Energy Deployment System model;    ReEDS;    renewable energy certificates;    RECs;    generation capacity;    National Energy Modeling System;    NEMS;    federal 20% RPS by 2021;   

DOI  :  10.2172/1219281
RP-ID  :  NREL/TP--6A2-45161
PID  :  OSTI ID: 1219281
Others  :  Other: 5252

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来源: SciTech Connect

【 摘 要 】

This paper provides a preliminary analysis of the impacts of a proposed 20% national renewable portfolio standard (RPS) by 2021, which has been advanced in the U.S. Congress by Senator Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico. The paper was prepared before the America Recovery and Reinvestment Act was signed into law by President Barack Obama on February 17, 2009, and thus does not consider important changes in renewable energy (RE) policy that need to be addressed in follow-on analysis. We use NREL's Regional Energy Deployment System (ReEDS) model to evaluate the impacts of the RPS requirements on the energy sector and consider design issues associated with renewable energy certificate (REC) trading markets.