• 한국태양에너지학회 논문집
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• 제37권1호
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• pp.59-69
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• 2017

In 2012, Korea introduced a Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) scheme, replacing the Feed-in Tariff (FIT) scheme as a market support policy of renewable energy in the electricity market. RPS is to allocate obligatory quota of renewable energy sources for electricity suppliers, whereas FIT is to guarantee high prices for electricity from renewable energy sources. This study examines the effect of this policy change on solar photovoltaic market. According to the study, solar PV market grew fast under FIT as well as under RPS. However, under RPS the size of subsidy for solar PV suppliers was shrunk substantially. In addition, market risk increased severly under RPS due to the volatility of price of renewable energy certificate (REC) as well as of the electricity market price. The small and medium suppliers of solar PV were suffered the most severly from these policy effects. Therefore, the policy reform of RPS is needed to alleviate the market risk of small and medium suppliers of solar PV.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제58권3호
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• pp.467-477
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• 2009

Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) is a regulatory policy that requires the generation companies to increase the proportion of renewable energy sources such as wind, solar, LFG, fuel cell, and small hydro. Recently, Korean government decided to increase the portion of renewable energy to 3% to total electricity generation by 2012 from the current level of 0.13%. To achieve this goal, an innovative plan for market competitiveness would be required in addition to the present Feed-In-Tariff (FIT). That is Korean government has taken it into consideration to introduce a Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) as an alternative to FIT. This paper reviews the impact of RPS on the long-term fuel mix in 2020. The studies have been carried out with the GATE-PRO (Generation And Transmission Expansion PROgram) program, a mixed-integer non-linear program developed by Hongik university and Korea Energy Economics Institute. Detailed studies on long-term fuel mix in Korea have been carried out with four RPS scenarios of 3%, 5%, 10% and 20%. The important findings and comments on the results are given to provide an insight on future regulatory policies.

• KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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• 제41권4호
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• pp.67-99
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• 2019

This paper, focusing on the renewable portfolio standard (RPS), evaluates alternative renewable energy policies. We propose a tractable equilibrium model which provides a structural representation of Korea's electricity market, including its energy settlement system and renewable energy certificate (REC) transactions. Arbitrage conditions are used to define the core value of REC prices to identify relevant competitive equilibrium conditions. The model considers R&D investments and learning effects that may affect the development of renewable energy technologies. The model is parameterized to represent the baseline scenario under the currently scheduled RPS reinforcement for a 20% share of renewable generation, and then simulated for alternative scenarios. The result shows that the reinforcement of the RPS leads to higher welfare compared to weakening it as well as repealing it, though there remains room to enhance welfare. It turns out that subsidies are welfare-inferior to the RPS due to financial burdens and that reducing nuclear power generation from the baseline yields lower welfare by worsening environmental externalities.

• 한국건축시공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국건축시공학회 2014년도 춘계 학술논문 발표대회
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• pp.44-45
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• 2014

Recently the Korean government also has strictly restricted a law such as GBCC(Green Building Certification Criteria)and RPS(Renewable Portfolio Standard) on the construction. Especially the government announced a obligation of renewable energy consumption over 12% for all the public buildings of total area over 1,000㎡ since 2014. Regarding to the policy, this study presented the economics of energy analysis of the public office buildings that supplies 12% renewable energy output in the early stage of construction project. This paper calculated on CO₂ emission by the geothermal, solar heat, and solar photovoltaic system and estimated the saving cost. Reduced cost through the energy saving are predicted to influence on the total construction cost. As a result air pollution and energy saving cost are expected that renewable energy system would be saving total initial cost of construction on planning phase.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제58권4호
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• pp.708-717
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• 2009

Recently, Korea government decided to introduce RPS (Renewable Portfolio Standard) mechanism which requires electricity providers to gradually increase the amount of renewable energy sources such as wind, solar, bioenergy, and geothermal. As a consequence, it is expected that the long-term fuel mix would be changed to result in more expensive production and the increased production costs would be distributed to the rate payers via electricity tariffs. This paper presents the change in long-term fuel mix in year 2020 with the four RPS scenarios of 3%, 5%, 10% and 20%, and the methodologies for collecting the increased production costs through new tariff schedule. The studies on long-term fuel mix have been carried out with the GATE-PRO (Generation And Transmission Expansion Program) optimization package, a mixed-integer program developed by the Korea Energy Economics Institute and Hongik university. Three methodologies for distributing the production costs to the rate payers have also been demonstrated.

• KIEE International Transactions on Power Engineering
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• 제5A권1호
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• pp.70-78
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• 2005

This paper analyzes the environmental impact and economic effect of introducing the Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) into the Korean electricity market using the DECADES (Database and Methodologies for Comparative Assessment of Different Energy Sources for Electricity Generation) model, a comparative assessment tool developed by IAEA. A bottom up approach is adopted for the evaluation of air pollutant emission and its impact of several RPS scenarios. The environmental damage costs of RPS scenarios are evaluated based on the Extern-E results and the Thailand externality study carried out by EGAT. The results of this study can be applied in determining or analyzing the national electricity policy and energy policy.

• 자원ㆍ환경경제연구
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.805-828
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• 2010

미국과 일부 EU 국가처럼 국내에서도 신재생에너지 보급 확산을 위해 시장기능을 강화하는 제도로서 신재생에너지 의무할당제(RPS)를 2012년 이후 도입할 예정이다. RPS의 도입을 통해 에너지 사업자에게 일정비율의 신재생에너지 공급을 의무화함으로써 신재생에너지 보급 확대에 기여한다는 것이다. 본 논문은 신재생에너지 의무할당제도의 도입에 따른 경제적 파급효과를 일반연산균형모형(CGE)을 이용한 정량적 분석을 통해 살펴보았다. 불완전 경쟁시장 가정 하에 내생적 성장모형(endogenous growth theory)에 기초한 CGE 모형을 이용하여 분석한 결과를 요약하면 다음과 같다. RPS 제도는 물량을 규제하기 때문에 목표량을 오차 없이 달성할 수 있다는 장점을 지니고 있다. 신재생에너지의 목표량이 정확히 달성됨에 따라 보다 큰 기술 확산 효과를 기대할 수 있다. 그러나 의무적으로 신재생에너지를 공급함에 따라 투자비용이 상승하여 중단기적으로 GDP가 감소할 가능성이 존재한다. 결국 장기적인 관점에서 신재생에너지의 보급을 확대하고 경제성장을 견인하는 신성장 동력으로 활용하고자 한다면 RPS 제도를 도입하는 것이 바람직하다.

• 신재생에너지
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• 제1권3호
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• pp.14-23
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• 2005

Korean government set the goal of 5.6% to use renewable energy in electricity generation by 2011 compared with the current use of 0.13%. To achieve this goal, an innovative plan for market competitiveness would be required in addition to the feed-in-tariff [FIT] which is carried out at present in Korea. As a countermeasure, Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy [MOCIE] has taken it into consideration to introduce a Renewable Portfolio Standard [RPS] that is a purchase obligation program as an alternative plan to the FIT. Furthermore, the active renewable energy market may result from and also reversely result in the aid of North Korea with renewable energy. In this paper, we review The RPS in several country cases. Plans, systems, markets and institutionalization for solving efficiency in the area of renewable energy are discussed.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제65권7호
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• pp.1135-1143
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• 2016

A private company's 1,000 MW coal-fired power plant will be the first coal-fired power plant that was included in the 5th 'Basic Plan on Electricity Demand and Supply' (2010). Now it is facing the task to abide by the RPS(Renewable Portfolio Standard) policy after commercial operation. If they fail to supply the necessary REC (Renewable Energy Certificate) mandated by the RPS policy, they are subject to be fined by the government and forced to modify the cost function to reflect the burden. Eventually the company's coal-fired power plant will be forced to reduce generation to maximize profit because the amount of electricity generated by the power plant and the REC obligation is positively correlated. This paper analyzed the change of cost function of private coal-fired power plant according to the introduction of RPS policy from the viewpoint of private company, and finally proposed the optimal generation to maximize the profit of private coal-fired power plant under the current RPS policy.

• 한국융합학회논문지
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• 제12권6호
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• pp.139-150
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• 2021

현재 국내 신재생에너지 보급 정책은 RPS(Renewable Portfolio Standard; 공급의무화제도)이다. 대용량 발전사업자는 신재생 의무공급량을 직접 생산하거나 REC(Renewable Energy Certificates; 공급인증서) 구매를 통해서 확보한다. 정부는 신재생 에너지원의 경제적, 사회적 가치를 평가하여 각 에너지원에 가중치를 매기는 REC 가중치를 여러 차례 개정했으며 의무공급 비율도 점차 증가하도록 개정했다. 본 연구는 정부의 정책이 관련 산업에 미치는 영향을 확인하는 데 도움이 된다. 태양광발전에 관한 REC 가중치 개정과 신재생 의무공급량이 태양광 설비량에 미치는 영향을 분석하기 위해 태양광 설비량을 종속변수로 시계열 분석과 의무공급량에 대한 회귀분석을 수행하였다. 결과적으로 REC 가중치 개정과 의무공급량 증가는 태양광 설비량 증가에 유의미한 영향을 미친다는 것을 확인하였다.