IMPACTS OF A 10-PERCENT RENEWABLE PORTFOLIO STANDARD

Follow this link to read the Department of Energy's Febrauary 2002 report on an RPS for the United States. The report offers a series of analyses showing the impacts of each of the selected provisions of the bills on energy supply, demand, and prices, macroeconomic variables where relevant, import dependence, and emissions. The report finds varying levels of possibility in terms of achieving the RPS and varying levels of impacts and trade-offs, both environmental and economic, should the RPS be passed.  

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