International Tax Incentives for Renewable Energy: Lessons for Public Policy
International Tax Incentives for Renewable Energy: Lessons for Public Policy
Tax incentives are powerful and highly flexible policy tools that can be targeted to encourage specific renewable energy technologies and to impact selected renewable energy market participants. This paper by the Center for Resource Solutions identifies the types of tax incentives currently in use worldwide as well as ten types of tax incentives that are in use to support renewable energy. The paper offers lessons learned from international experience with these tax incentive programs. (June 2005)