Achieving Greater Greenhouse Gas Reductions with Alternative Compliance to California's Renewables Portfolio Standard

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Abstract: California’s Renewables Portfolio Standard (RPS) acts as one of the State’s keystone climate
change policies as it dictates the percentage of renewable energy that electricity providers must
provide their ratepayers. In this paper, I outline the difficulties and high incremental costs
associated with continuing to increase the level of the RPS. In response to these high costs, I
propose a policy that would lead to significantly greater GHG emissions at a lower cost. This
paper describes how the policy would work and how it could be implemented by the State of
California to reduce the State’s impact on climate change.

Author	Rogers, Spencer
Advisor	Sweeney, James

Subject	Renewables Portfolio Standard
Subject	Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Subject	Climate Change
Subject	Utilities
Genre	Text
Genre	Thesis

DOI	https://doi.org/10.25740/fq803bg4804
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/fq803bg4804

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Preferred citation: Rogers, S. (2022). Achieving Greater Greenhouse Gas Reductions with Alternative Compliance to California's Renewables Portfolio Standard. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at https://purl.stanford.edu/fq803bg4804

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