sust-mar: Review of EMGC's Recommendations for a Renewable Portfolio Standard

Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 13:17:11 -0300 (ADT)
From: Larry Hughes <lhughes2@dal.ca>
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The Electricity Marketplace Governance Committee's Second Interim Report
includes a series of recommendations regarding the generation of
electricity from renewable energy sources, including a proposal for a
provincial renewable portfolio standard or RPS.  RPS is legislation meant
to ensure that a minimum amount of renewable energy is included in the
portfolio of the electricity resources serving a jurisdiction (such as a
province or state).  Many jurisdictions adopt RPS as a way of addressing
environmental issues such as SO2 or greenhouse gas emissions.
 
This paper's examination of the proposed recommendations for renewables
and a provincial RPS shows that they will have a negligible impact on
either Nova Scotia's renewable energy industry or its greenhouse gas
emissions.  The paper proposes a RPS that would make significant inroads
into Nova Scotia's greenhouse gas emissions, at the same time encouraging
a provincial renewable energy industry.
 
The paper's authors are Larry Hughes, Kathleen Bohan, Khosrow Jafapur,
Howlan Mullally, and Jaspreet Singh.

A copy of this paper can be obtained from:
http://www.dal.ca/~lhughes2/environment/rps.pdf

Larry Hughes, PhD
Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3J 2X4, Canada

v: 902.494.3950
f: 902.422.7535
e: larry.hughes@dal.ca
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