Green jobs? Economic impacts of renewable energy in Germany

Lehr, Ulrike; Lutz, Christian; Edler, Dietmar

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2012.04.076

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“…Additionally, to the extent that increased wind impacts the cost of energy, or has other macroeconomic effects, this too may affect employment in the broader economy. Studies that have evaluated the economy-wide net effects of renewable energy have shown differing results (e.g., Böhringer et al 2013;Böhringer et al 2012;Bowen et al 2013;Breitschopf et al 2011;Chien and Hu 2008;Frondel et al 2010;Hillebrand et al 2006;Lehr et al 2012;Lehr et al 2008;Marques and Fuinhas 2012;Menegaki 2011;Rivers 2013;Yi 2013). In general, however, there is little reason to believe that net impacts are likely to be sizable in either the positive or negative direction (e.g., Rivers 2013).…”

Section: Workforce and Economic Developmentmentioning

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Long-term implications of sustained wind power growth in the United States: Potential benefits and secondary impacts

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We model scenarios of the U.S. electric sector in which wind generation reaches 10% of end-use electricity demand in 2020, 20% in 2030, and 35% in 2050. As shown in a companion paper, achieving these penetration levels would have significant implications for the wind industry and the broader electric sector. Compared to a baseline that assumes no new wind deployment, under the primary scenario modeled, achieving these penetrations imposes an incremental cost to electricity consumers of less than 1% through 2030. These cost implications, however, should be balanced against the variety of environmental and social implications of such a scenario. Relative to a baseline that assumes no new wind deployment, our analysis shows that the high-penetration wind scenario yields potential greenhouse-gas benefits of $85-$1,230 billion in present-value terms, with a central estimate of $400 billion. Air-pollution-related health benefits are estimated at $52-$272 billion, while annual electricsector water withdrawals and consumption are lower by 15% and 23% in 2050, respectively. We also find that a high-wind-energy future would have implications for the diversity and risk of energy supply, local economic development, and land use and related local impacts on communities and ecosystems; however, these additional impacts may not greatly affect aggregate social welfare owing to their nature, in part, as resource transfers.

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Section: Workforce and Economic Developmentmentioning

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Long-term implications of sustained wind power growth in the United States: Potential benefits and secondary impacts

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“…New, partly international, production chains develop. To adequately account for these changes, input-output structures for the RPGT have been implemented in the model, based on a comprehensive industry survey and earlier work [10]. This kind of enlarged macro model with an input-output core is able to take these changes towards renewable power generation into account.…”

Section: Economic Impacts Of Rpgt Deployment: International Dimensionmentioning

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“…Assumptions on future development of exports of RPGT are the most important driver for future economic net impacts in national studies [10], [30]. They depend on new installations in foreign markets, which are driven by global learning and national support policies.…”

Section: Economic Impacts Of Rpgt Deployment: International Dimensionmentioning

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“…In 2010, economic effects of different energy scenarios were compared to each other, which were the basis for the German energy concept [8], [9]. Recent applications include employment effects of the increase of renewable energy [10], and economic evaluation of climate protection measures in Germany [11]. In a recent overview [12] the model is classified as "input-output", but it is rather "econometric" plus "input-output", as parameters are econometrically estimated and input-output structures are flexible [13].…”

Section: Economic Impacts Of Rpgt Deployment: National Perspectivementioning

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“…In [24] a RPGT module for the INFORUM type econometric input-output models [27] such as GINFORS [26] or PANTA RHEI [10] is developed. The selected technologies are wind onshore and solar PV.…”

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Summary In this paper, we assess the total cost of energy recovery from sewage sludge through anaerobic digestion with biogas utilization in combined heat and power (CHP) system. The important advantage of anaerobic digestion process is the production of biogas, which can be used to generate electricity and heat as a source of renewable energy. From this study, it can be retained that the generated thermal energy from the anaerobic digestion process meets the needs of the wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) and guarantees its self‐sufficiency in heat. The surplus of renewable heat produced by CHP is not a primary factor to improve the economic viability of the process. Moreover, the sales of electricity output represent about 76% of the operating costs of anaerobic digestion process. Renewable energy production is not economically viable by its own, without considering the wastewater treatment function and the associated incomes. Nevertheless, sludge digestion helps to reduce the wastewater treatment costs mainly by giving a good source of revenue via electricity production. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Green jobs? Economic impacts of renewable energy in Germany

Cited by 233 publications

References 18 publications

Long-term implications of sustained wind power growth in the United States: Potential benefits and secondary impacts

Long-term implications of sustained wind power growth in the United States: Potential benefits and secondary impacts

Economic Impacts of Renewable Power Generation Technologies and the Role of Endogenous Technological Change

Economic analysis of renewable heat and electricity production by sewage sludge digestion-a case study

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