Economics of renewables

A number of informative papers have been written about the economics of wind power. We present a selection here together with a newsletter article which comments on the fallacy that wind power will bring Scotland a jobs bonanza.
A special section is devoted to the threat to tourism.

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All the documents in this section are in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.

• Powering the Nation
  PB Power for the Royal Academy of Engineering,  2006
  A comparison of the costs and benefits of different types of electricity generating technologies on a like-for-like basis. A 26-page summary. The full report can be purchased from PB Power at £250.
• The Renewables Obligation
  Ofgem`s Third Annual Report,  2006
  The administration of the Renewables Obligation in Scotland, England and Wales. (You will need Acrobat 5 or higher to read this report)
• The Renewables Obligation
  Ofgem`s Second Annual Report,  2005
  The administration of the Renewables Obligation in Scotland, England and Wales. (You will need Acrobat 5 or higher to read this report)
• The Renewables Obligation
  Ofgem`s First Annual Report,  2004
  The administration of the Renewables Obligation in Scotland, England and Wales
• The Arnish black hole
  Reprinted from a VoS Newsletter,  2004
  Examines the political and economic background to the controversial Lewis projects
• Tilting at Windmills: the Economics of Wind Power
  by Prof David Simpson
  published by the David Hume Institute,  2004
  An investigation of the underlying economics of wind power by an industry outsider
• The costs of generating electricity
  RAE,  2004
  a commentary (and useful executive summary) of the PB Power study
• The economics of Wind Energy within the generation mix
  Prof. Dr-Ing. Helmut Alt, RWE Rhine Ruhr AG,
  Geschäftskunden Düren,  2003
• The costs of generating electricity
  A study by PB Power
  published by the Royal Academy of Engineering,  2003
  A comparison of the costs of generating electricity from a number of different technologies
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