Policies to Support Wind Power Deployment: Key Considerations and Good Practices

Policies have played an important role in scaling up wind deployment and increasing its economic viability while also supporting country-specific economic, social, and environmental development goals. Although wind power has become cost-competitive in several contexts, challenges to wind power deployment remain. Within the context of country-specific goals and challenges, policymakers are seeking utility-scale wind power deployment. Drawing from international experience and lessons, the paper focuses on wind-specific good practices for renewable electricity standards, feed-in tariffs, interconnection standards, net metering, financial incentives, and approaches to enable private finance. Ultimately, governments can design a suite of complementary policies that aligns most appropriately with unique national circumstances, challenges, opportunities, and goals.