Empirical determinants of renewable energy deployment: A systematic literature review

By Clémence Bourcet. 2020

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A large share of greenhouse gas emissions can be attributed to the energy sector. Renewable energy (RE) appears to be a mean to decarbonize economies. To fight global warming, which might have substantial impacts on ecosystems and economies, it is essential to understand the empirical determinants of RE deployment for public policy guidance and to foster future research. This paper aims to review the growing, though limited, body of literature that has emerged in the late 2000s to study the quantitative determinants of RE development at a country level. Results show that there is little consensus on the influence of the economic, environmental, and energy-related determinants predominantly studied. The other main determinants considered are regulatory, political, and demographic. Results are often tempered by the fact that authors use diverse measures of RE deployment and have a variety of frameworks. This paper ends with several recommendations to improve the comparability of future papers to enhance their potential to make credible public policy recommendations. More specifically, the recommendations concern the choice of a RE deployment indicator, the determinants considered for further exploration, and the methodologies adopted.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Pollution, Sociology and Political Science

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Environmental policy stringency, renewable energy consumption and CO2 emissions: Panel cointegration analysis for BRIICTS countries (2020, background): “Numerous empirical studies have found that renewable energy is playing a positive role in improving environmental quality (Armeanu 2017; Bourcet 2020; Damette and Marques 2019; Destek 2016; Inglesi-Lotz and Dogan 2018; Mert and Bölük 2016; Mert, Bölük, and Çağlar 2019; Pao and Fu 2013; REN21 2018;…”