Analysis Of Katrin Jordan Korte s Implementation Of...

In Katrin Jordan-Korte’s book she compares strategies of implementation of renewable energy markets and technologies to find what is the most effective strategy. Through her research she attempted to answer what specific renewable energy techniques were the most effect and efficient while also trying to find whether or not stricter or more lenient government decisions lead to a more successful energy promotion. One conclusion Katrin finds is that, â€Å"Government promotion is important and is warranted to secure a sufficient diffusion of renewable energy sources,† (219). The reason she believes government promotion is necessary is because without there being enforced policies on the use of renewable energy then because of the difference in cost power generation companies would shy away from using renewable energy technologies. The two best options of government implementation of renewable energy usage are either through taxation on nonrenewable energy sources, or throu gh rewarding power generation companies for using renewable energy sources. The benefits of taxation are the relatively immediate and obvious decision a power generation company would have to make of having to begin using renewable energy sources in order to save on the newly created high costs of fossil fuels. This technique has been used in Germany which did lead to an initial spike in the diffusion of renewable energy. The issue that Katrin believes will come with any government who uses this method is that for