期刊
ENERGY POLICY
卷 157, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2021.112214
关键词
Renewable energy feed-in tariff; Policy mixes; Policy learning; Community solar; Hong Kong
资金
- Policy Innovation and Co-ordination Office, Hong Kong SAR Government through the Public Policy Research Funding Scheme (Project titled Engaging the Community to Develop a Model for Sustainable Energy Futures: A Case Study of Two Prospective Solar Communit [2017.A2.027.18B]
- Research Grants Council, University Grants Committee of the Hong Kong SAR Government through the General Research Fund (Project titled Deliberative participation, trust, and social learning for sustainable energy transi-tions (SETs) : A comparative study [12602717]
- Hong Kong Baptist University Research Committee through the Faculty Research Grant (Project titled The Diversity and Critical Processes of Urban Energy Transitions through Community Engagement: An International Comparison of London, Berlin, Foshan (China) [FRG2/17-18/096]
The effectiveness of renewable energy feed-in tariffs varies globally. This paper examines how to improve the effectiveness of renewable energy policies, with a focus on a recent FiT policy in Hong Kong. It found that while FiT was effective in stimulating growth in certain sectors, it faced challenges in mainstreaming solar energy in communities and cities due to non-economic barriers perceived by householders.
Effectiveness of renewable energy feed-in tariff (FiT) varies across the world. Designing policy mixes of a package of policy instruments to optimise the normative effect of FiT is critical but has remained challenging and understudied. This paper brings together the key concepts of policy mixes and policy learning to examine how the effectiveness of renewable energy policies can be improved, with reference to a recent FiT policy in Hong Kong focusing two prospective solar communities. Based on 99 in-depth interviews and workshop discussions involving 57 householders, we found that FiT was an effective policy in stimulating growth of new solar photovoltaic (PV) projects in some sub-sectors in Hong Kong, but has not yet mainstreamed solar at the community and city levels. The FiT was insufficient to address multiple non-economic barriers perceived by householders. The limited policy impacts of the FiT indicated that policy makers were able to attain technical learning, but faced major constraints in advancing to conceptual and social forms of policy learning. This paper concludes that policy makers should give closer attention to policy mixes and advanced forms of policy learning than choosing a single most effective policy instrument to unlock the under-used community solar potentials.
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