Deploying Renewables: Principles for Effective Policies examines the key factors that will determine the success of renewable energy policies and how current policies can be improved to encourage greater deployment of renewables. Responding to the Gleneagles G8 call for a clean and secure energy future, it highlights key policy tools to fast-track renewables into the mainstream. This analysis illustrates good practices by applying the combined metrics of effectiveness and efficiency to renewable energy policies in the electricity, heating and transport sectors. It highlights significant barriers to accelerating renewables penetration, and argues that the great potential of renewables can be exploited much more rapidly and to a much larger extent if good practices are adopted.

Foreword
Acknowledgements
Executive Summary
-Introduction
-Main analytical findings
--Renewable electricity (RES-E)
--Renewable heating (RES-H)
--Biofuels
-Key messages and conclusions
-Recommendations
Introduction
-Context
-Aim of the publication
-Publication structure
Chapter 1. Renewable Energy Technology
-Market Trends in OECD countries and BRICS
-Trends in renewable electricity (RES-E) markets
-Trends in renewable heat (RES-H) markets
--Market trends for commercial renewable heat
--Market trends for solar and geothermal direct heating
-Trends in renewable transport fuel (RES-T) markets
-Renewables in primary energy supply
Chapter 2. Potentials and Costs for Renewable Energy Technologies
-Methodological approach
-Overview of mid-term RET potentials
-The renewable electricity sector (RES-E)
-The heating sector
-The transport sector
-Overview of costs for RETs
Chapter 3. Effectiveness and Efficiency of Renewable Energy Market Deployment Policies
-Key messages
-Overview
--Measuring policy effectiveness and efficiency
--Policy effectiveness indicator
--Remuneration level efficiency
--Overview of support schemes
-Evolution of support schemes in OECD countries and BRICS
-Current status and targets for renewables in OECD countries and BRICS
-Analysis of RE policy effectiveness and remuneration level efficiency: RES-E technologies
--Onshore wind
--Electricity from solid biomass
--Biogas electricity
--Solar photovoltaics (PV)
--Hydropower
--Geothermal electricity
-Analysis of RE policy effectiveness and remuneration level efficiency: RES-H technologies
--Geothermal heat
--Solar hot water
--Biomass CHP heat
-Analysis of RE policy effectiveness and support level: RES-T technologies
--Biofuels
Chapter 4. Research, Development and Demonstration (RD&D) Trends for Renewables
-National renewable energy RD&D spending in IEA countries
--Overall energy RD&D spending
--Renewable energy share of RD&D spending
--Technology shares of RES RD&D spending
--Country-specific spending and their priorities
--Recent public RD&D spending on renewables
-National RD&D spending in selected non-OECD countries
--India
--China
--South Africa
--Russia
-RD&D programmes
--RD&D programmes in policy frameworks
--International collaboration
-Structuring RD&D
--Setting objectives
--Changing needs in the short- to long-term
--Efficient use of funds
--Monitoring and evaluation
-The role of the private sector
Chapter 5. Conclusions and Recommendations
-Policy effectiveness in OECD countries and BRICS
-Main lessons learnt and principles for effective policies
-Towards an integrated policy approach
-Recommendations
Annex A. Definitions, abbreviations, acronyms and units
Annex B. References