Download or read book Essays on the Economics of Renewable Energy Policy written by Michaela Unteutsch and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays on the Economics of Renewable Energy Policy written by Michaela Unteutsch (geb. Fürsch) and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays on Renewable Energy Policy and Economics written by Anna Ebers and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Three Essays Of Economics And Policy On Renewable Energy And Energy Efficiency written by Yuxi Meng and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In face of the crisis in energy security, environmental contamination, and climate change, energy saving and carbon emission reduction have become the top concerns of the whole human world. To address those concerns, renewable energy and energy efficiency are the two fields that many countries are paying attention to, which are also my research focus. The dissertation consists of three papers, including the innovation behavior of renewable energy producers, the impact of renewable energy policy on renewable innovation, and the market feedback to energy efficient building benchmarking ordinance.Here are the main conclusions I have reached in this dissertation. First, through the study on foreign patenting intention with the case study of Chinese solar PV industry, I looked at the patenting behaviors of 15 non-Chinese solar PV producers in solar PV technologies in China, and pointed out that foreign firms may file patents in the home country or production base of their competitors in order to earn the competitive edge in the global market. The second study is about the "Innovation by Generating" process. I specifically focused on Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) in the United States and the innovation performance within each state, and found out that wind power generation in RPS states has developed rapidly after the adoption of RPS, while the "Innovating by Generating" effect is more significant in solar PV technologies. In general, the innovations of the two technology groups are not prominently encouraged by RPS. My last study is about the benchmarking law and market response in the scenario of Philadelphia Benchmarking Law. By comparing the rental rate of LEED/EnergyStar buildings and ordinary buildings in the city of Philadelphia before and after the adoption of the building energy efficiency benchmarking law, I believe that the passage of Philadelphia Benchmarking Law may be helpful in improving the public awareness and understanding of energy efficiency information of buildings.

Download or read book Essays on the Economics of Renewable Energy written by Richard McDowell (Ph. D.) and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation addresses three questions related to the economics of renewable energy. Chapter 1 studies learning-by-doing during the generation process at wind and solar farms in the United States. While this phenomenon is often cited as a rationale for subsidizing renewable electricity, there is relatively little project-level evidence on how knowledge is accrued. Using detailed atmospheric data to account for potential output, I study whether generation and installation experience leads to increased productivity for solar and wind projects. I further assess the appropriability of experience by considering the transfer of knowledge within and across firms. Results suggest that generation experience on a particular project leads to higher productivity at that project but not at other sites. Installation experience appears to lead to higher output on subsequent projects, and exhibits spillovers across owners with proximate installation sites for wind farms. Chapter 2, co-authored with Michael Greenstone, studies the impact of Renewable Portfolio Standards, which mandate electricity sales from renewable sources, on electricity markets. Despite their prevalence and scope, the cost-effectiveness of these policies is currently poorly understood. Using panel data on program characteristics, electricity prices, generation, and employment, we find that portfolio standards have been successful at increasing regional renewable generation, with marginal compliance coming almost entirely from wind energy. However, costs to consumers are large, with retail electricity rates increasing by 9-15% five years after adoption. Based on our estimates, the cost of carbon abatement from these programs is substantial, and well above conventional estimates of the social cost of emissions. In the third chapter, I examine the extent to which electricity prices influence household purchases of Energy Star appliances. I combine a large cross-sectional survey dataset on appliance ownership and household characteristics with data on local electricity prices. Across three different appliance types, I find an elasticity of Energy Star ownership to retail electricity price of 0.58 to 0.66. In line with the "landlord-tenant" problem discussed in the energy efficiency literature, both ownership rates and responsiveness tp prices are substanitally lower for rented properties, particularly those with lower income tenants.

Download or read book Essays on the Economics of Renewable Energy written by Eric Ariel Bergmann and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Renewable Energy Support Policies and Strategic Behavior written by Ali Darudi and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Three Essays on Energy Economics and Policy written by Zhi Li and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many changes are needed to shift the economy from business as usual to a sustainable track in both developed and developing countries. Technology innovation, especially related to clean energy and energy efficient, is needed to meet the requirement of such economy shift, and is receiving considerable and increasing attention. Governments have applied large numbers of energy and environmental policies to stimulate the clean energy innovations and support the development of related industries. Hence, it is important and necessary to better understand and assess the impact of policy instruments and key factors in the clean energy sector.My dissertation include three studies related to the clean energy technologies and the industry development. Several conclusions are drawn. First, by investigating the effect of "innovating-by-implementing" in the context of the US LEED building program, I find that implementation experience of utilizing energy efficient technologies in building construction and renovation makes important contribution to innovations in energy efficient building technologies. The second study examines the impact of a specific industry policy -- export restriction on raw materials -- on rare earth downstream industries, which is related to a lot of clean energy products. The result suggests that China's REEs export restriction policies have worked effectively as an industrial policy to induce FDIs and technology transfer by foreign downstream firms and promote domestic downstream industries. The third study analyzes the US innovation related to REEs technologies in the context of innovation system, and it shows that the US has lost its leadership in downstream innovation in REEs, in response to the removal of upstream producers in the innovation system.

Download or read book Three Essays on the Economics of Climate Change written by Brenda Tang and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Three Essays on the Economics of Renewable Energy in Small Island Economies written by Sener Salci and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Economics of Renewable Energy written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords. Select Committee on Economic Affairs and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2008 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Government aims to increase renewable energy from 1.8 per cent to 15 per cent of energy consumption by 2020, in line with European Commission proposals. This report looks at the economics of renewable energy given the Government's policy to reduce carbon emissions. Chapter 2 gives a brief overview of Britain's energy system and outlines the Government's energy policy objectives. Chapter 3 examines the different renewable technologies used to generate electricity, and compares generation costs between them and contrasts them with fossil fuel-fired plants and nuclear power. Chapter 4 looks at the issues involved in balancing the irregular supply from renewable generators which depend on weather conditions against the continuous demand for electricity. The potential for renewable sources of heat and of transport fuels - an overlooked area even though they account for 80 per cent of UK energy consumption. - is examined in chapter 5. Chapter 6 reviews the key policy issues, the impact of renewable policy on fuel poverty, the planning system for renewable energy, and whether the 15 per cent EU target is achievable. The Committee finds that costs of renewable energy generation are more than conventional means. It recommends that the Government prioritise the development and promotion of the other effective and economic options, both to bring down carbon dioxide emissions and to achieve security of electricity supply. The most reliable renewable sources are tidal barrage and biomass, which are problematic for other reasons, and hydro-power which is near the limit of its potential in the UK. The most reliable low-carbon alternative to renewables is nuclear power, together with conventional fossil fuel generation with carbon capture and storage (if and when that becomes available).

Download or read book Essays on the Economics of Renewable Energy and Cross sectoral Decarbonization written by Jakob Peter and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays in the Economics of Renewable Resources written by Leonard J. Mirman and published by Amsterdam ; New York : North-Holland Publishing Company ; Sole distributors for the U.S.A. and Canada, Elsevier Science Publishing Company. This book was released on 1982 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays in Economics of Renewable Resources written by Erwin Hendricus Bulte and published by . This book was released on 1997* with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Economics of Renewable Energy written by Yoram Krozer and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-02-21 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book provides a comprehensive review of renewable energy from an economic perspective throughout the last two hundred years, starting from traditional renewable energy based on bio and hydro energy. The focus is on modern renewable energy based on geothermal, wind, and solar energy. It emerged when innovative entrepreneurs captured opportunities for valuable energy services. As the services with renewable energy expanded, the costs of technologies decreased entailing global commercialisation. This enables larger access to energy and emission reduction of carbon dioxide, but also causes larger differences in the energy resources across countries which impedes international policies. That optimistic viewpoint on the shift to the global low-carbon economy is largely based on statistical data about purchasing power, energy consumption and businesses, and valuable energy services in many countries on all continents. The data are presented in 70 tables, graphs, and figures, most of them original. Interpretation of the data are useful in support of decisions making about sustainable development in civil society, businesses, and policy makers as well as for the verifications of scholarly hypotheses and projections in energy and climate policies.

Download or read book Three Essays on Economic Modeling and Environmental Policy Evaluation written by Ziqian Gong (Ph. D. in applied economics) and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation is composed of three chapters economic modeling and environmental policy evaluation. The first chapter explores the conflicts between preserving natural resources and economic activities. This paper establishes a model to estimate the threshold for the landowners to preserve the natural resource or do economic activities by taking the potential option value (from uncertainty and the irreversibility) into account when they need to decide between these two choices. By employing the real options theory with the numerical method, we could evaluate how the choices will be made towards this dilemma from the perspective of landowners. As an application, the result could provide a reliable and precise policy indication for the government to perform a more rational compensation policy toward natural resource protection than before. The second chapter investigates the impact of monetary policy on climate change. Climate change has been recognized as the most significant externality of today’s global economy. Current research has been predominantly focused on fiscal policy, which will be subject to the political environment. This paper establishes a dynamic general equilibrium model of a closed economy to find the optimal monetary policy under climate change to reduce carbon emissions and encourage the application of renewable energy. We evaluate how renewable energy firms, fossil fuel energy firms, and general goods production firms will respond to different monetary policies from the central bank. As an application, our results could provide a reliable policy tool for decision-makers to meet specific climate goals and encourage a transition to renewable energy. The third chapter provides a way to do the sustainability analysis of the Great Lakes region. The economic impact of climate change on key economic sectors has been studied for a long time. This study established an integrated energy- environmental-economic dynamic recursive computable general equilibrium model. Using this spatial computable general equilibrium (CGE) model, we show how to analyze environmental sustainability and individual well-being resulting from changes in the Great Lakes area’s complex economic and environmental systems. Our general equilibrium framework models interactions between human (economic, behavioral, social) and the environment and represent the interactions between local, regional, national, and global systems across space. This paper provides a tool to understand these linkages between economic agents and different sectors for the policymakers. So, they could use our work to assess the risk that may impact agriculture, energy, and manufacturing sectors under climate change and devise a related policy to maximize the welfare of its population and economy sustainably.

Download or read book Essays in Energy Resource Economics written by John Wesley Anderson and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation consists of three chapters whose common theme is innovation and tax policies as they concern emerging energy technologies and resources in the United States and Canada. The first chapter investigates whether there is econometric evidence of learning-related externalities in the U.S. wind development business that might substantiate learning-by-doing as a basis for costly policies to support wind energy. I develop a modeling framework that: (i) disentangles firms' experience installing wind capacity from other determinants of wind power projects' costs -- in particular, input prices, scale economies, and exogenous technical change; and (ii) allows for alternative measures of experience and multiple channels through which experience can accumulate. For a variety of specifications, I find evidence of firm-specific learning-by-doing but no evidence of knowledge spillovers across firms, which calls into question the need for policies to support U.S. wind on the grounds that there are learning-related externalities. The second chapter develops a model of production and investment in the upstream natural gas business in an effort to characterize and evaluate an efficient and government revenue-maximizing royalty regime for shale gas in Canada. The model suggests that efficient production, investment, and royalty revenue outcomes can be achieved via a royalty on shale gas producers' operating profits, with royalty rates sensitive to gas wells' locations and market prices for gas. Simulation results based on this model suggest that the royalty regime currently in place in British Columbia -- the province with the best shale gas resources in Canada -- over-taxes shale gas producers at low prices, and under-taxes shale gas producers at high prices, compared to the proposed alternative royalty regime. The third chapter revisits the issue of identifying and estimating learning-by-doing in U.S. wind (and renewable energy technologies more generally). I explain why statistical inference based on learning curves -- a class of regression models employed in much existing empirical research on learning-by-doing in renewables -- is suspect and should not inform policy. Specifically, I show that popular learning curve models make strong assumptions that: (i) preclude the ability to distinguish between inter-firm knowledge spillovers and firm-specific learning-by-doing (i.e. learning that does and does not entail externalities); and (ii) disregard factors besides learning in explaining the evolution of firms' costs over time.