Capacity-Based Policy

Definition

Capacity-Based Policy is a regulatory requirement or program that addresses the amount or percentage of installed renewable energy capacity (e.g. in megawatts [MW]) in a certain geographic area over a certain period of time.

Installed capacity can be determined without tracking or compliance instruments (e.g. renewable energy certificates).

Examples

• Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS)
• capacity-based distributed generation (DG) program.

See Also

• Generation-Based Policy
• Load-Based Policy