Third, and finally, policymakers introduced various forms of price control. Worldwide, this final form of renewables support from governments has been easily the most consequential of all the mechanisms surveyed here, which is to say it is the one that has had most influence in nurturing and buttressing the rollout of renewables installations. Not unrelatedly, it has been the mechanism most favoured both by actors within the renewables sector itself and, no less importantly, by their financiers – on which more in due course.
