This brief summarises common criteria and indicators that policy-makers can use to
conduct evaluations. Five commonly assessed criteria are: effectiveness; efficiency;
equity; institutional feasibility; and replicability. Under each criterion, it is important
to establish measurable indicators that can be used to assess performance. This
brief only looks at policy performance with respect to deployment, and not at
the broader impacts of renewable energy technologies, such as environmental,
economic, energy security or technological impacts.