摘要: The aim of this paper is to look at the UK’s renewable energy policy in context its overall decarbonisation and policies. This will allow us explore precise nature ‘failure’ UK renewables suggest changes which might be appropriate light institutional resource endowments. Our focus on electricity sector both terms generation a lesser extent facilitating role distribution transmission networks. We that failure rather more do with societal preferences available mechanisms for encouraging social acceptability than it financial support mechanisms. Radical current are required, but they must careful institutionally UK. What we policies exhibit an unnecessarily low benefit cost ratio, new deployment pay close attention effectiveness.