What determines the adoption of technologies for renewable energy generation across countries?

I provide evidence that the effect of induced biased technical change is the main determinant for the adoption of solar and wind technologies for energy generation. While previous work studied the effects of past innovations, fuel prices and environmental policy instruments to induce biased technological change towards renewables, I provide evidence about how these mechanisms induce the adoption of these technologies. I use an input demand function for electricity production and a cross country panel dataset on 29 OECD countries between 1990 and 2015. In particular, I test if the adoption of solar and wind technologies for energy generation made by electricity producers is being driven by a pure substitution effect, induced technological change and fuel taxes. This approach let us to understand not only if technologies for renewable energies have improved over time, but also the rate of adoption of these technologies.

• Autores: Gómez Gil, Julián David
• Fecha de publicación: 2018
• Institución: Universidad de los Andes
• Repositorio: Séneca: repositorio Uniandes
• Idioma: eng
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.uniandes.edu.co:1992/34736
• Acceso en línea: http://hdl.handle.net/1992/34736
• Palabra clave: Recursos energéticos renovables - Aspectos económicos - Investigaciones; Producción de energía eléctrica - Innovaciones tecnológicas - Investigaciones; Demanda de energía eléctrica - Investigaciones; Economía
• Rights: openAccess
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/