Abstract
During the last decade, the generation of electricity from renewable energy (RE) resources has increased significantly in numerous countries around the world. Government policies and laws play an important role in facilitating the development of RE resources. In this chapter, examples of RE technologies that have been successfully deployed on islands in different regions of the world to generate electricity and the government policies and laws that have been used to promote RE development. In some countries governments have employed a combination of different programs and incentives to facilitate electricity production from RE.
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UNESCO/Division of Water Sciences, “GRAPHIC Groundwater and Climate Change, Small Island Developing States (SIDS),” SC-2015/WC/29, at 1, ihp@unesco.org – www.unesco.org/water/ihp.
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United Nations. International year of Small Island Developing States – 2014, at http://www.un.org/en/events/islands2014/index.shtml#&panel1-1>.
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Supra, note 2, p. 3.
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Glen Plant, Offshore Renewable Energy Development in the British Islands – Part 1, 2 RELP (2013) 120–142.
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Rocky Mountain Institute, www.cleantechnica.com.../an-island-tokelau-powered100.
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Travis Holum, “Hawaii May Have Just Given Energy Storage a Huge Boost,” October 22, 2015, at http://fool.com/investing/general/2015/10/22/hawaii-may-have-just-given-energy-stor.
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Ibid.
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Ibid.
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An ongoing offer to energy developers that provides a connection to the transmission grid, costs borne by utilities, and a premium price for the electricity generated from the geothermal project; there will be more discussion of FIT programs later in the chapter.
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Fundy Ocean Research Center for Energy (FORCE), www,fundyforce.ca.
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For example, see offshore wind energy development in Germany or geothermal energy development in Indonesia.
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The doctrine of legitimate expectations, a common principle of administrative law in many jurisdictions, has evolved differently via case law in common law jurisdictions such as Canada, the USA, England, and Australia to either broaden or narrow the doctrine along with the procedural and substantive rights offered under it.
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For a broad summary of “privilege clause” utility in Canada, for example, see M.J.B. Enterprises Ltd. v. Defense Construction (1951) Ltd., [1999] 1 S.C.R. 619.
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See, for example, Hanna v Ontario (Attorney General), 2010 ONSC 2660; or Kenney v Municipal Property Assessment Corp., Region No. 05, 2012 CarswellOnt 3747; or Drennan v Director, Ministry of the Environment, 2014 CarswellOnt 1695.
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Ingelson, A., Phillip, C. (2018). Policies and Laws and Island Environments. In: Tyler, ME. (eds) Sustainable Energy Mix in Fragile Environments. Social and Ecological Interactions in the Galapagos Islands. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69399-6_5
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