Financial incentives to enable clean energy deployment: Policy overview and good practices

This policy brief serves as a useful primer on the use of incentives for clean energy and energy efficiency. It introduces the main types of incentive (including tax measures, rebates and performance based incentives, and loans and credit enhancements), and outlines key design elements for incentives, as well as showcasing some lessons from different country experiences. The references list further useful resources for more detailed, country specific information on financial incentive design.