Appropriate policy portfolios for (nearly) mature RES‐E technologies

Until now, in particular PV and wind have experienced substantial cost reductions that brought them close to levelised cost of electricity generation from conventional generation technologies. Now, it is necessary to offer investors attractive framework conditions for these mature RES-E technologies while ensuring minimal costs for society, in order to attain the targets for RES-E deployment that were formulated by the EU.

This report aims to identify challenges faced by investors of mature RES-E technologies, and to suggest policy options to tackle these challenges. The challenges addressed in this report are related to factors which affect RES-E deployment in a 2030 timeframe in the EU. The analysis will focus on policy design options that have been proposed in the recent policy discussion. The method will be based on qualitative comparisons between different alternatives for each challenge. Thereby, we substantiate the analysis of the challenges and possible solutions with selected country case studies.