EME 805
Renewable Energy and Non-Market Enterprise

Overview

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Overview

Congratulations! You're at the home stretch of our course, and thus far, you've made your way through a complex array of topics about renewable energy markets and their various nonmarket conditions. Now, through the step-by-step approach that you've worked through over the past six lessons, you will develop a policy that draws from your research and creates a strategy to improve some aspect of competitive advantage for your renewable energy enterprise.

Recall that policy, as we think of it here in the most general of terms, is really just a set of actionable items based on a given rationale. Policies can be simple, or they can be complex, embedded within, and have interdependencies to other multi-tiered policies. The policy recommendation(s) you will develop will have well-defined targets and be based on evidence and investigation.

For your nonmarket campaigns, you will draw on the knowledge about the social construction of markets to define the fundamental renewable energy market features you wish to engage. You will determine how the market is ordered. And, then, you'll scan for market "imperfections" that provide opportunities for developing targets for your nonmarket campaigns. You will define the boundaries, contexts, resources, and the main targets your campaign will attempt to achieve. Once you have detailed out what your campaigns will need in terms of resources, strengths, and hurdles, you will develop an extensive plan for the implementation and re-evaluation of your overall campaign.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this lesson, you should be able to:

  • synthesize your nonmarket strategy based on your previous assignments; and
  • develop your nonmarket policy brief.

What is due for Lesson 12?

This lesson will take us one week to complete. Please refer to the Course Syllabus for specific time frames and due dates. Specific directions for the assignment below can be found within this lesson.

Lesson 12: Assignments
Requirements Assignment Details
To Do Read and familiarize yourself with all the Lesson 12 materials.
Read
  • Read the two Guides to Writing Policy Briefs.

    (All links to readings available in Canvas course folder for Lesson 12.)
Assignment
  • Complete Lesson 12 Worksheet (Policy Brief). After revisions, submit completed policy brief and all supporting worksheets and matrices (previous assignments) that support this brief by uploading to the Lesson 12 Assignment in Canvas.

Questions?

If you have any questions, please post them to our Questions? discussion forum (not e-mail), located under the Discussions tab in Canvas. I will check that discussion forum daily to respond. While you are there, feel free to post your own responses if you, too, are able to help out a classmate.