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Ting Du
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DOI:10.17265/1548-6591/2021.05.003
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Beijing Foreign Studies University, Beijing, China
ABSTRACT
From the perspective of institutionalism, government behaviors are influenced by rules, institutions and regulations instead of alienated ones. In terms of the area of renewable energy field, government policy (energy storage and energy transformation) is subject to political system, market system and stakeholders. Institutional factors have direct bearing on renewable energy. Policy stability and investment risk directly impact the sustainable development of renewable energy industry. Feed-in-tariff (FIT) programs in Ontario are generously subsidized by Ontario government, which lays the foundation for the energy transition in 2014 when Ontario realized zero-coal electricity generation. From 2007 to 2017, FIT experienced ups and downs in Ontario. It experienced institutional discontinuity and exhaustion according to Streeck and Thelen (2005). Three institutional factors have contributed to the demise of FIT in Ontario: the robust development of electricity generation technology and the nuclear power, government prioritizing other programs in planning and sanctioning, stakeholders objecting FIT for exorbitant price.
KEYWORDS
policy change, institutional change, renewable energy, wind energy, Ontario, FIT
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