Table 1 Different mechanisms for renewable energy promotion Incentive mode Price driven Quantity driven Investment incentive Investment subsidy; low interest loan Investment bidding system Generation incentive Feed-in-tariff subsidy; price premium Renewable portfolio standard.
"The theft is really market driven and price driven," said William E. Yoshimoto, a supervising lawyer in the district attorney's office in Tulare County, southeast of here, who oversees a valleywide program to fight agricultural crime.
Now they're trucked all over the state to the highest bidder, the price driven up every year by the enthusiasms of the superfans who form associations to honor their favorite animals, urge festival organizers to feature them and trash-talk the competition.
The second piece, a bronze tiger's head from a zodiac fountain that is believed to have been designed by a Jesuit artist who lived in China, sold for $2 million, more than three times its estimated value of $580,000, with the price driven up by an unidentified telephone bidder.
Still, the decision today nudged Gucci's share price up 3percentto to 117.70 euros, on speculation that Gucci, already a darling of investors, might again have its share price driven up as the target in a revived bidding war between LVMH and Pinault.
The existing policies for renewable energy promotion can be categorized into two kinds of "price driven" and "quantity driven" based on their different regulation targets, and "investment incentive" and "generation incentive" based on their different incentive targets (shown in Table 1).
Table 6 Average values of the factors for the four clusters analysed Clusters Self-enhancement and stimulation Conservation Edonism and security Self-transcendence Price driven 0.10 0.04 − 0.01 0.01 Locavores 0.09 0.10 − 0.01 0.04 Savers − 0.14 − 0.05 0.00 − 0.06 No-choosers − 0.08 − 0.06 0.06 0.06.
In particular, younger people (under 45 years of age) prevail among the locavores and among the price driven, the age bracket between 45 and 54 is the most present among the non-choosers, while the elderly have greater weight among the savers.
But incumbent energy markets may not in fact harvest much of this renewable edge, because they are not price driven.
But the exact opposite is true; gold is a commodity and its price, driven by supply and demand and speculation, swings wildly.
