“…Evidence of the importance of policy stability is already found through data linked to changing policy environments, including the production tax credit in the United States [51], public sector investment from the Australia Renewable Energy Agency [65], on-shore wind regulation across Europe [48,[66][67][68][69], and solar feed-in-tariffs [52,70]. The termination of policy, especially when retroactively done, is often singled out when discussing policy stability/uncertainty [71,72]. Ensuring policy is designed to be as efficient and effective as possible is key so as to avoid over-subsidising technologies which, in turn, leads to higher costs for government and, therefore, an increase in the likelihood of changes in policy [73].…”