The political drivers of renewable energies policies

Cadoret, Isabelle; Padovano, Fabio

doi:10.1016/j.eneco.2016.03.003

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“…Prior studies reveal that political stability can improve the environmental performance of the country by reducing pollutant emissions . The results can also be compared with the study of Cadoret and Padovano that governance quality and strong policies can increase renewable energy deployment in the country. However, a higher level of democratic functioning is essential for building a link between political stability and renewable energy consumption.…”

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Unraveling the contemporary drivers of renewable energy consumption: Evidence from regime types

Yahya

Rafiq

2019

Env Prog and Sustain Energy

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The detrimental effect of climate change and pollutant emissions has shifted the attention of researchers and policymakers toward renewable energy resources. To unravel the underexplored determinants of renewable energy consumption, this study examines the individual and combined effect of innovativeness, regulatory quality, trade openness, and tax attractiveness after controlling for per capita GDP, financial liberalization, inflation, and political stability. In addition, system‐generalized method of moments estimator is utilized to reduce endogeneity bias in the model. A broader sample size of 85 countries is investigated and further divides it into four sub‐panels on the basis of regime types (full democracy, flawed democracy, hybrid, and authoritarian regime). The findings indicate that innovativeness, regulatory quality, and trade openness are the major drivers of renewable energy consumption in global panel. The combined effect of innovativeness and regulatory policy is also statistically significant on renewable energy consumption. Furthermore, tax attractiveness positively moderates the relationship between trade openness and renewable energy consumption. The results differ across sub‐panels; however, the observed factors explain more variation in renewable energy consumption for full democracy and flawed democracy panels. It is suggested that economies should be shifted from authoritarianism to democracy to improve their public, industrial, trade, and tax policies which may help them to boost the consumption and production of clean energy. © 2019 American Institute of Chemical Engineers Environ Prog, 38:e13146, 2019

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Unraveling the contemporary drivers of renewable energy consumption: Evidence from regime types

Yahya

Rafiq

2019

Env Prog and Sustain Energy

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“…The policies should be developed by providing a clear insight in necessary legislation for business to be confident about the future policies to promote renewable energy. There are many policies, which have been identified by the scholars, that are able to deal with the regulatory barriers: obligations and mandates for the share of renewables in fuel; public procurement of renewable electricity and renewable carriers for transport; quotas and obligations for RES; well‐established generic or technology‐ or fuel specific targets, supported by the other effective policies, such as renewable portfolio standards, building codes, technology‐specific mandates and so on (Boie et al, ; Cadoret & Padovano, ; Kilinc‐Ata, ; Malik et al, ; Papież et al, ).…”

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“…A great number of studies exist in the field of barriers of renewables (Byrnes, Brown, Foster, & Wagner, ; Huang et al, ; Karatayev, Hall, Kalyuzhnova, & Clarke, ; Malik et al, ; Nasirov et al, ; Raza et al, ; Seetharaman et al, ; Sovacool, ; Sovacool & Saunders, ; Stavytskyy, Kharlamova, Giedraitis, & Šumskis, ) and the policies and measures to promote renewables in various countries (Boie, Fernandes, Frías, & Klobasa, ; Cadoret & Padovano, ; Chen, Cheng, Vinko, & Song, ; Harrison, ; Kasperowicz, Pinczyński, & Khabdullin, ; Kilinc‐Ata, ; Nesta, Vona, & Nicolli, ; Papież, Śmiech, & Frodyma, ; Polzin, Migendt, Täube, & Von Flotow, ; Zhang, Li, Zhou, & Zhou, ). There are a limited number of studies that are dealing systematically with the analysis of barriers of renewables and policies and measures to overcome these barriers in specific sectors.…”

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Renewable energy barriers and coping strategies: Evidence from the Baltic States

Ren

Yao

et al. 2019

Sustainable Development

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Renewable energy sources (RES) are the main drivers of sustainable energy development. Notwithstanding the substantial expansion of renewables in the past decade, boosted by the various policies and measures, renewable energy sources are still far from full incorporation into the energy markets. It is necessary to overcome the remaining impediments for renewables to realize the energy transition to 100% renewable energy. The aim of this research is to analyze the main barriers of renewables and success of policies dealing with these barriers. The case studies in the Baltic States provide concrete examples of policies and their impacts in terms of overcoming barriers in relevant sectors: heating and cooling, power and transport. The assessment of policies in the Baltic States shows that there are a few measures that are implemented in the transport sector, although this sector encounters many social, economic, technological, and regulatory barriers. The countries have achieved the lowest results in approaching RES targets in transport. New financial incentives and investments in the development of infrastructure for electric vehicles are crucial for the development of markets of electric vehicles. K E Y W O R D S barriers and drivers of renewables, sustainable energy, sustainable energy policies, the Baltic States

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“…The impact of renewable energy on economic growth in the Black Sea and Balkan countries has been explored, and bidirectional causality between renewable energy consumption and economic growth has been found [6]. The problems of renewable energy price policies have been analyzed [7,8]. For example, in China, a good match between the various types of renewable energy policies is a better way of promoting renewable energy consumption [9].…”

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A TOU Pricing Mechanism to Promote Renewable Energy Consumption: The Case of the Western Inner Mongolia Grid in China

Pang

Gao

2017

Mathematical Problems in Engineering

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The curtailment of wind power and photovoltaic power is becoming increasingly serious from the year 2012 to present in China. And the small installed capacity captive coal-fired power plants have been developed rapidly aiming to cut production costs. Therefore, by the substitution of renewable energy for captive coal-fired power plants, this paper establishes a time-of-use (TOU) pricing mechanism with a linkage between the supply side and the demand side to promote renewable energy consumption, which is applied to the Western Inner Mongolia grid in China. The results show that the benefits to the grid company, electricity users, renewable energy producers, and social environment are influenced by the quantity of renewable energy purchased in the market, the market price for renewable energy, the quantity of electricity from grid to peak shaving, the carbon price, and the quantity of electricity generated by captive coal-fired power plants shifting to grid, in which the first factor has the greatest influence on the benefits of stakeholders. Furthermore, improving the accuracy of renewable energy generation forecast and optimizing using electricity behaviors by considering the renewable energy generation characteristics could ensure the TOU mechanism implementation successfully.

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The political drivers of renewable energies policies

Cited by 264 publications

References 18 publications

Unraveling the contemporary drivers of renewable energy consumption: Evidence from regime types

Unraveling the contemporary drivers of renewable energy consumption: Evidence from regime types

Renewable energy barriers and coping strategies: Evidence from the Baltic States

A TOU Pricing Mechanism to Promote Renewable Energy Consumption: The Case of the Western Inner Mongolia Grid in China

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