Renewable energy deployment remains an important issue. Generation of electricity and heat from renewable energy (RE) sources reduces the emission of greenhouse gases, provides energy access in remote areas, and diversifies fossil-fuel reliant energy supply, increasing energy security. As such RE deployment creates environmental and social value. Increasingly, RE deployment also contributes to employment and the emergence of an economic sector which is participating in global competition. The question for decision makers in industrialized countries as well as in emerging economies and developing countries is: How can economic value be generated from RE and how can this process be supported by value enabling policies? This study is set out to offer/develop an analytic framework oriented toward identifying opportunities for value creation along the entire RE value chain; to identify and define RE value creation policies and discuss possibilities for strategic policy interventions to enhance RE value creation; and to deepen the analysis with lessons learnt from the development of RE and other sectors.
