CONTENTS List of Figures and Tables vii List of Contributors x Acknowledgements xii List of Acronyms and Abbreviations xiii 1 Introduction: The Promise of Renewable Power 1 Volkmar Lauber Part 1 Context 19 2 Oil Depletion 21 Werner Zittel andjorg Schindler 3 Global Climate Change and Renewable Energy : Exploring the Links 62 lan H. Rowlands 4 Renewable Energy for Developing Countries: Challenges and Opportunities 83 Giulio Volpi Part 2 Policies to Develop Renewable Electricity and its Generation Technologies 97 5 Danish Wind Power Policies from 1976 to 2004 : A Survey of Policy Making and Techno-Economic Innovation 99 Kristian Hvidtfelt Nielsen 6 Germany: From a Modest Feed-in Law to a Framework for Transition 122 Staffan Jacobsson and Volkmar Lauber 7 The UK Renewables Obligation 159 Peter M. Connor 8 The Design and Impacts of the Texas Renewables Portfolio Standard 187 Ole Langniss and Ryan Wiser 9 European Union Policy towards Renewable Power 203 Volkmar Lauber Part 3 Evaluation of Policies and Approaches 217 10 Comparing Support for Renewable Power 219 David Elliott 11 Renewable Energy: Political Prices or Political Quantities 228 Frede Hvelplund 12 Tradeable Certificate Systems and Feed-in Tariffs: Expectation Versus Performance 246 Volkmar Lauber Index 264