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

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Abstract/Contents

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.

Type of resource	text
Date created	May 18, 2018

Author	Rogers, Spencer Booth
Primary advisor	James Sweeney

Subject	Renewables Portfolio Standard
Subject	greenhouse gas emissions
Subject	climate change
Subject	utilities
Genre	Thesis

Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/mp689nw8961

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Preferred Citation: Rogers, Spencer Booth. (2018). ACHIEVING GREATER GREENHOUSE GAS REDUCTIONS WITH ALTERNATIVE COMPLIANCE TO CALIFORNIA’S RENEWABLES PORTFOLIO STANDARD. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: https://purl.stanford.edu/mp689nw8961

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