This book examines the coordination of renewable energy policies in the European Union using an innovative theoretical approach to explain national policy making. David Jacobs asks, why are national support instruments for electricity from renewable energy sources converging, even though the harmonisation of these frameworks at the European level has failed? Which causal mechanisms lead to cross-national policy similarities? And what are the implications for policy coordination in the EU?

1: Introduction; 2: The Theoretical Framework; 3: The Empirical Framework; 4: The Evolution of Design Options for Basic Feed-in Tariffs; 5: The Evolution of Design Options for Tariff Differentiation and Adjustment; 6: The Evolution of Design Options for System and Market Integration; 7: The Evolution of Tariff Levels; 8: Powering Cross-National Policy Convergence; 9: Conclusion

David Jacobs is a Research Associate at the Environmental Policy Research Center (FFU), Freie Universitÿt Berlin, Germany